Plant Controller: Strategic Finance for Manufacturing

Connect Search, LLC; Wisconsin; On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Connect Search, LLC is seeking a Plant Controller to oversee financial planning and reporting for a manufacturing site in Milwaukee County. The role drives policy enforcement, budgeting, and internal controls to protect assets and support strategic decisions.

The candidate will develop financial business cases, track procurement and CI initiatives, and partner with senior management to ensure profitability targets are met through S&OP and budgeting processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business management, accounting or finance.
• 5+ years’ experience in a manufacturing industry.

Responsibilities

• Guides financial decisions by establishing, monitoring, and enforcing policies and procedures.
• Protects assets by establishing, monitoring, and enforcing internal controls.
• Prepares financial and capital budgets by creating and updating financial schedules, collecting, analyzing, and consolidating financial data, and providing financial recommendations supporting business partners in presentation to senior management for approval.
• Achieves budget objectives by analyzing and reporting on variances, initiating monthly meetings with Budget owners, identifying risks & opportunities to fiscal Budget and implementing corrective actions.
• Responsible for development of financial business cases, tracking and monitoring financial results from Procurement and CI led initiatives, and other plant profitability initiatives identified through the company’s budgeting, S&OP, Commercialization and Stagegate processes.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business management, accounting or finance

Job description

Connect Search, LLC is seeking a Plant Controller to oversee financial planning and reporting for a manufacturing site in Milwaukee County. The role drives policy enforcement, budgeting, and internal controls to protect assets and support strategic decisions.

The candidate will develop financial business cases, track procurement and CI initiatives, and partner with senior management to ensure profitability targets are met through S&OP and budgeting processes.