Plant Controller

CF Industries; Woodward Township (PA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Work Arrangements

Health insurance

401(k) plan with company matching

Paid time off

Job summary

CF Industries is seeking a Plant Controller to partner with the Plant General Manager, oversee financial reporting, budgeting, and internal controls. You will manage the month-end close, asset accounting, and audit support while guiding process improvements across maintenance and capital projects.

The role requires a senior background in manufacturing accounting, strong leadership, and technical skills in SAP and Microsoft Office to ensure timely, accurate financial data for strategic decision

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance required.
• 10+ years supervisory experience in manufacturing accounting.
• Experience at manufacturing plants with high complexity and capital projects.
• Proficient in Windows with Excel, Word, and PowerPoint; SAP knowledge preferred.
• CPA/MBA and public accounting experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Act as a key financial reporting resource to corporate and local management.
• Lead and supervise professional accounting and clerical staff.
• Accounts for and reports on local capital and maintenance spending.
• Perform monthly inventory costing and close processes; ensure GAAP compliance.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance related

CPA or MBA preferred

Tools

SAP accounting systems

Excel

Word

PowerPoint

Job description

At CF Industries, our mission is to provide clean energy to feed and fuel the world sustainably. Our employees are focused on safe and reliable operations, environmental stewardship, and disciplined capital and corporate management. By joining CF, you will be part of a team that brings their varied experiences, wide-ranging knowledge and diverse talents together to deliver important work and you’ll be able to pursue complex, exciting opportunities that help you continue to grow and achieve your potential in different areas. You’ll take pride in working for a company that lives its values and where you can be yourself at work, as part of an authentic team that encourages you to share your views and opinions. Our eight manufacturing complexes in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, an unparalleled storage, transportation and distribution network in North America, and logistics capabilities enabling a global reach underpin our strategy to leverage our unique capabilities to accelerate the world’s transition to clean energy.

Function

Job Summary

The Plant Controller has a direct reporting relationship to the Director, Plant and Cost Accounting within the Corporate Controllers department. This position acts as a key business partner to the Plant General Manager and their direct reports by providing financial oversight, critical analysis, and actively soliciting process improvement opportunities. This role acts as the key person responsible for providing timely and accurate financial and operational reporting with corresponding analysis. In addition, this individual is responsible for establishing an environment that ensures and maintains a high level of internal control over these reporting practices. The Plant Controller will establish procedures to ensure that plant personnel are knowledgeable of and adhere to all financial policies. This individual will direct all financial activities related to accounting processes, annual planning, periodic spare parts reviews, fixed assets, maintenance activities, and budgeted or unplanned turnarounds. This role will also manage all internal and external audit requirements. The Plant Controller acts as the key financial business partner to the Plant General Manager by providing operational financial data and analysis. This position supervises and directs the month end close process by preparing, reviewing, and verifying the accuracy of journal entries; accounting classifications; and account analysis along with year-end close functions. The incumbent is also responsible for ensuring accurate Fixed Assets accounting. This is achieved by maintaining a close relationship with Maintenance and Engineering managers to track project progress, asset capitalizations and retirements, proper internal order classification, and establishing a thorough accrual review process. The Plant Controller leads monthly cost review meetings comparing actual results to plan and prior periods in order to identify key data sources and utilizes data-driven insights about important plant-wide or departmental metrics to improve business decisions. The incumbent helps to support quarterly and annual internal and external audits by providing requested support documentation and analysis. The incumbent also prepares the annual budget and contributes to budget forecasting updates throughout the year. The Plant Controller also oversees the preparation of cost statements, accounting statements and reports, and operational reports. This individual is responsible for ensuring that production and accounts payable invoices are accurately recorded daily while supervising a clerical and professional staff. This role will also communicate to Corporate personnel deviations from established policies.

Job Description

The Plant Controller has a direct reporting relationship to the Director, Plant and Cost Accounting within the Corporate Controllers department. This position acts as a key business partner to the Plant General Manager and their direct reports by providing financial oversight, critical analysis, and actively soliciting process improvement opportunities. This role acts as the key person responsible for providing timely and accurate financial and operational reporting with corresponding analysis. In addition, this individual is responsible for establishing an environment that ensures and maintains a high level of internal control over these reporting practices. The Plant Controller will establish procedures to ensure that plant personnel are knowledgeable of and adhere to all financial policies. This individual will direct all financial activities related to accounting processes, annual planning, periodic spare parts reviews, fixed assets, maintenance activities, and budgeted or unplanned turnarounds. This role will also manage all internal and external audit requirements. The Plant Controller acts as the key financial business partner to the Plant General Manager by providing operational financial data and analysis. This position supervises and directs the month end close process by preparing, reviewing, and verifying the accuracy of journal entries; accounting classifications; and account analysis along with year-end close functions. The incumbent is also responsible for ensuring accurate Fixed Assets accounting. This is achieved by maintaining a close relationship with Maintenance and Engineering managers to track project progress, asset capitalizations and retirements, proper internal order classification, and establishing a thorough accrual review process. The Plant Controller leads monthly cost review meetings comparing actual results to plan and prior periods in order to identify key data sources and utilizes data-driven insights about important plant-wide or departmental metrics to improve business decisions. The incumbent helps to support quarterly and annual internal and external audits by providing requested support documentation and analysis. The incumbent also prepares the annual budget and contributes to budget forecasting updates throughout the year. The Plant Controller also oversees the preparation of cost statements, accounting statements and reports, and operational reports. This individual is responsible for ensuring that production and accounts payable invoices are accurately recorded daily while supervising a clerical and professional staff. This role will also communicate to Corporate personnel deviations from established policies.

Job Responsibilities

• Acts as a key financial reporting resource to Corporate and local management
• Leads and supervises professional accounting and clerical staff
• Accounts for, manages, and reports on the local capital and maintenance spending process
• Performs/Reviews monthly inventory costing process
• Reconciles/reviews inventory through the local production reporting systems
• Manages local plant Accounts Payable function and analyzes monthly aging reports
• Makes recommendations and suggestions on best methods and strategies to streamline accounting and plant processes (and implements)
• Reviews monthly journal entries and month end analyses
• Prepares various exhibits and commentary required for reports issued to management, outside Directors and government agencies
• Provides financial forecasting, budgeting and analyzing variations from company budgets
• Reviews written procedures on job responsibilities
• The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by persons assigned to this job. These statements are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel in this position.
• Coordinate and prepare tax analysis and filings as determined by Corporate Tax and local taxing authorities.
• Assists with internal and external audits as needed
• Prepares all other analyses as required

Matrix Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, guidance, coaching, and process oversight for plant accounting
• Provide assistance to Financial Planning & Analysis through the annual plan and forecasting periods.
• Advises stakeholders on the accounting implications of strategic decisions and highlight any potential risks to internal controls and compliance.
• Provides direction to individuals regarding their role and responsibilities to help meet the overall Company objectives, along with the role the department has in fulfilling plant goals
• Empower and promotes the proper level of responsibility and authority for others to learn, grow into new responsibilities and make the proper decisions to obtain the overall department objectives
• Demonstrates the highest level of integrity and trust in all aspects of the job by working continually towards self-development, staying abreast of all current information and technology, and be knowledgeable with FASB & AICPA governing bodies affecting functional areas to increase innovation and ensure compliance
• Promotes the corporate controller’s group by developing strong relationships between department members and other CF departments through a high degree of communication across management
• Promotes the matrix organizational structure with direct reports and encourages cross involvement between people and groups

Internal Controls

Establishes and implements processes and procedures to meet departmental internal controls requirements. Ensures that established processes/procedures are followed as designed. Works with Internal Controls Department to identify deficiencies in existing processes/procedures, the need for new ones, and the extent to which such processes/procedures are being followed. Develops and implements corrective actions with regard to department internal controls as necessary.

Successful Incumbents Will Have

• A bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance related
• 10+ years supervisory experience in manufacturing accounting, CPA/MBA and public accounting experience preferred
• Experience at manufacturing plants with a high level of complexity including a high volume of capital projects, multiple products with an intricate manufacturing process and supporting multiple departments within a plant
• Ability to work independently and be self-directed; high level of self-motivation with the ability to understand and follow detailed instructions
• Ability to function effectively while meeting deadlines
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and administrative skills
• Must be proficient in PC use within a Windows environment, with an intermediate knowledge of Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. Familiarity with SAP accounting systems desired

Position Scope/Contribution

Incumbents in this position use and know the fundamental accounting concepts and practices of GAAP. They apply established methods/procedures to perform work that is often varied and may be difficult. Incumbents are expected to function independently.

The actual base pay for the position may be influenced by factors such as education, training, skills, qualifications, competencies, years of experience, job-related knowledge, and scope of the role, and could be outside of the posted pay range.

In addition to base pay, an incentive program is available to all full-time employees, and a comprehensive benefits package including two medical plan options, a health savings plan with a company contribution and a match, dental and vision benefits, a well-being incentive program, 401(k) Plan which provides a potential of receiving between 10% and 13% of employer’s contribution, life and disability insurance, paid time off programs and much more! Additionally, we offer several Flexible Work Arrangements to support a healthy work-life balance. For more detailed information on the CF programs, please visit our Total Rewards website at: https://cftotalrewards.com/.

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Notice Regarding Potential Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Recruitment Process

As part of our recruitment process, CF Industries may use automated tools, including artificial intelligence ("AI") and machine learning technologies, to assist recruiters in identifying and prioritizing candidates whose qualifications align with job-related criteria, including information provided during the application process such as resumes, work history, education, qualifications, and responses to application questions. These tools support but do not replace human decision-making, and all final employment decisions are made by our Talent Acquisition team and/or hiring managers exercising independent judgment.