Plant Controller: Cost, Ops, & Margin Analytics

TALENT Software Services; Keene (NH); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

TALENT Software Services is seeking a Keene Plant Controller to serve as the financial backbone of a demanding op-to-images manufacturing operation. You will own the integrity of the plant's financials from shop floor to boardroom, focusing on internal controls and cost discipline.

You will partner with Operations to tie financial results to production performance, challenge variance assumptions, and deliver audit-ready reports and actionable analysis for leadership.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in cost and managerial accounting in a complex discrete-manufacturing setting.
• Proven track record building and enforcing internal controls.
• Strong familiarity with ERP/MES platforms used in manufacturing.
• Ability to challenge assumptions with data-driven variance analysis.

Responsibilities

• Ensure integrity of the plant's financials with a focus on SOX, inventory, and revenue-cycle controls.
• Manage cost accounting processes including standard costing, BOMs, work orders, and variance analysis.
• Perform product-line and program margin analytics, absorption, and monthly plant P&L forecasting.
• Collaborate with Operations to connect financial results to production performance.
• Deliver audit-ready reporting and decision-useful analysis to leadership.

Skills

Cost accounting

Managerial accounting

Internal controls

ERP fluency

Tools

ERP systems

MES systems

Job description

TALENT Software Services is seeking a Keene Plant Controller to serve as the financial backbone of a demanding op-to-images manufacturing operation. You will own the integrity of the plant's financials from shop floor to boardroom, focusing on internal controls and cost discipline.

You will partner with Operations to tie financial results to production performance, challenge variance assumptions, and deliver audit-ready reports and actionable analysis for leadership.