Plant Controller — Manufacturing Finance Leader

Cabinetworks Group; Middlefield Township (OH); On-site; USD 115,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Cabinetworks Group, a leading kitchen cabinet maker, is hiring a Plant Controller to lead all plant accounting tasks at Sayre or Orwell facilities. You will partner with Manufacturing Leadership to support plant objectives, develop standard costing processes, review profitability, and drive ad-hoc financial projects on the production floor.

The role requires building collaborative relationships with plant teams, delivering GAAP-compliant financials, and guiding cost analysis and forecasting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance.
• Five or more years of cost accounting experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Prior standard costing experience.
• Prior Plant accounting experience.
• Ability to build a strong collaborative relationship with plant management.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Excel, and standard cost / inventory systems.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Must be on site and travel 15-20%.

Responsibilities

• Accounting and Finance Lead in support of the entire manufacturing facility
• Ability to communicate financial information to non-finance departments
• Generation and review of daily, weekly, and monthly plant metrics, including labor, overhead, scrap and throughput variance analysis
• Month-end close responsibilities in the areas of labor entries and accruals, inventory reconciliations, material COS, overhead analysis, and transfer pricing. Ensure all accounting conforms with GAAP, company policy and Sarbanes-Oxley documentation
• Strong emphasis on continuous improvement relating to financial closing processes, analyses, and needs of other departments
• Provide support and guidance on development of plant standard product costs, bills of material, annual operating plan, and periodic forecasts
• Review and tracking of plant productivity projects coordinating with plant personnel on optimizing results
• Ensuring accuracy across all areas of inventory and providing analysis of perpetual transactions
• Support development of plant capital budgets and development of individual capital authorization requests (coordinating with plant management)
• Ad-hoc projects and analysis
• Provide insight/analysis for sourcing decisions regarding make/buys

Skills

Cost accounting

GAAP

Excel

Financial analysis

Team collaboration

Planning

Communication

Travel readiness

Independent work

Education

Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance

Tools

Oracle

ERP systems

Excel/Access

Job description

Cabinetworks Group, a leading kitchen cabinet maker, is hiring a Plant Controller to lead all plant accounting tasks at Sayre or Orwell facilities. You will partner with Manufacturing Leadership to support plant objectives, develop standard costing processes, review profitability, and drive ad-hoc financial projects on the production floor.

The role requires building collaborative relationships with plant teams, delivering GAAP-compliant financials, and guiding cost analysis and forecasting.