Plant Controller

Teledyne Technologies Incorporated; Hawthorne (CA); On-site; USD 188,000 - 251,000; Full time

Job summary

Teledyne Technologies Incorporated seeks a hands-on Plant Controller to lead site accounting and finance. You will partner with the Plant Manager to drive cost visibility, operational performance, and accurate financial reporting across the site.

Responsibilities include budgeting, forecasting, cost controls, and profitability analysis while ensuring internal controls and compliance with SOX and GAAP. Strong manufacturing accounting background is essential.

Qualifications

• Strong cost accounting background with standard costing and inventory valuation.
• Experience with revenue recognition principles (ASC 606); defense contracting preferred.
• Solid understanding of GAAP, SOX, internal controls, and financial reporting.

Responsibilities

• Lead plant accounting, controlling, and financial planning activities with site leadership.
• Maintain cost accounting, inventory valuation, variances, margins, and profitability reporting.
• Oversee annual budget, forecasts, labor/overhead planning, and capital spending.
• Prepare monthly/quarterly results, KPIs, and narratives for leadership.
• Strengthen internal controls and ensure SOX/GAAP compliance; coordinate audits.

Skills

Cost accounting

Variance analysis

GAAP knowledge

SOX controls

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelors in Accounting/Finance

Tools

Infor XA

OneStream

Job description

Be visionary Teledyne Technologies Incorporated provides enabling technologies for industrial growth markets that require advanced technology and high reliability. These markets include aerospace and defense, factory automation, air and water quality environmental monitoring, electronics design and development, oceanographic research, deepwater oil and gas exploration and production, medical imaging and pharmaceutical research.

Be visionary Teledyne Technologies Incorporated provides enabling technologies for industrial growth markets that require advanced technology and high reliability. These markets include aerospace and defense, factory automation, air and water quality environmental monitoring, electronics design and development, oceanographic research, deepwater oil and gas exploration and production, medical imaging and pharmaceutical research. We are looking for individuals who thrive on making an impact and want the excitement of being on a team that wins.

Job Description Plant Controller Teledyne Relays is seeking a hands-on, results-driven Plant Controller to lead the site accounting and finance function and serve as a trusted business partner to the Plant Manager and leadership team. This role is responsible for ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of financial reporting; maintaining strong internal controls; driving cost visibility and operational performance; and leading the annual budget, forecasting, and financial planning processes for the site.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead all plant accounting, controlling, and financial planning activities, partnering closely with the Plant Manager and site leadership to improve operational and financial performance.
• Maintain a strong cost accounting environment, including product costing, inventory valuation, manufacturing variances, cost standards, margin analysis, and profitability reporting.
• Lead the annual budget, monthly forecast, including labor and overhead planning, sales and volume assumptions, capital spending, and expense control.
• Prepare, analyze, and present monthly and quarterly financial results, operating reviews, key performance indicators, and financial narratives for division and corporate leadership.
• Strengthen and maintain the site’s internal control environment and ensure compliance with SOX 404, GAAP, company policies, and applicable accounting requirements.
• Coordinate internal and external audit activities and ensure timely resolution of findings and remediation plans.
• Manage and monitor company assets, including inventory and fixed assets, through appropriate controls, physical verification, cycle counting, and other audit methodologies.
• Maintain labor rates, indirect rates, escalation factors, and other financial inputs used for inventory valuation, proposals and estimates at completion (EACs).
• Provide financial analysis and decision support for cost savings initiatives, pricing support, capital investments, make/buy decisions, productivity improvements, and operational projects.
• Identify opportunities to improve accounting processes, reporting tools, automation, internal controls, and overall finance department effectiveness.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop accounting and finance team members, fostering accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Set clear expectations, provide timely feedback and support training and development to enhance team capabilities.

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong background in cost accounting, standard cost systems, inventory valuation, variance analysis, and margin analysis.
• Working knowledge of revenue recognition principles, including ASC 606; defense contracting experience is strongly preferred.
• Solid understanding of GAAP, Sarbanes-Oxley requirements, internal controls, and financial reporting standards.
• Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and business partnership skills, with the ability to translate financial data into actionable operational insights.
• Advanced proficiency with ERP systems, Microsoft Excel, and financial reporting tools; experience with Infor XA, OneStream, or similar systems is a plus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field required.
• CPA, CMA, or MBA preferred.
• 7+ years of progressive accounting or finance experience, preferably in a manufacturing environment with exposure to standard costing and defense contracting.

Salary Range

$188,000.00-$250,700.000

The anticipated salary range listed for this role is only an estimate. Actual compensation for successful candidates is carefully determined based on several factors including, but not limited to, location, education/training, work experience, key skills, and type of position.

Teledyne conducts background checks on qualified applicants who receive a conditional offer of employment in accordance with applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. Background checks may include, but are not limited to, education verification, employment history and verification, criminal convictions, Motor Vehicle Report (MVR & driving history), reference check, credit checks/credit history and drug testing. All qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Teledyne and all of our employees are committed to conducting business with the highest ethical standards. We require all employees to comply with all applicable laws, regulations, rules and regulatory orders. Our reputation for honesty, integrity and high ethics is as important to us as our reputation for making innovative sensing solutions.

Teledyne is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age, or any other characteristic or non-merit based factor made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws.