Plant Costing Manager

Saint-Gobain North America; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Prescription Drug, Vision, and Dental Insurance

401(k) with Company Match

Paid Time Off

Job summary

A leading building materials company is seeking a Plant Costing Manager in Dallas, Texas. The role focuses on providing financial support to the Operations Leadership Team, overseeing plant budgeting, and ensuring accurate financial records. Candidates should have a BS in Finance or Accounting, 7+ years in accounting, and experience in a manufacturing environment. The position offers health benefits, retirement plans, and opportunities for personal development.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in accounting & FP&A environment.
• Experience in a Manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

• Work with Operations Team to improve costs and support projects.
• Ownership for plant budgeting and forecasting.
• Complete the month-end close/reporting process.

Skills

Advanced PC Skills Excel

SAP Knowledge

Education

BS in Finance/Accounting

Job description

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Saint-Gobain North America provided pay range

This range is provided by Saint-Gobain North America. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

$140,000.00/yr - $145,000.00/yr

Additional compensation types

Annual Bonus and RSUs

Overview

The Plant Costing Manager is primarily responsible to closely partner with the NA Operations Leadership Team to provide financial support to assist them in making key business decisions as well as the Finance team to ensure accuracy of financial records, and that budgets and forecasts for the plants are complete & accurate.

This position will also complete the annual standard setting process, and periodic standards updates during the year as needed. Duties also include ensuring PPV and Variance Capitalizations are accurate as well as ensuring the amortization of standards changes and capitalized variances are accurate for both GAAP and IFRS.

This position will have a dotted line to the VP Operations

Essential Functions

• Business Partner – Work with Operations Team as a trusted business partner, identifying opportunities and performing analysis to improve costs, support capex projects, improve efficiencies, network optimization opportunities, etc.
• Budgeting/Forecasting – Ownership for plant budget and forecasting, working closely with operations and FP&A team to develop plant spending budgets, Reforecasts (up to 4X per year), setting standard costs, etc.
• Plant performance and Month End – Responsible to work with plants to complete the month-end close/reporting process, cost reviews, and forecast preparation. This includes posting journal entries, analyzing operational changes, reconciling productivity, ensuring accurate operational costs, reconciliation and assisting in capital asset management, KPI reporting, etc.
• Analyze factory administration costs, manufacturing variances, purchase price variances and other manufacturing costs and work with Plant contacts on Departmental Expense Analysis and on action plans for improving cost performance.
• Work Closely with the Engineering team and the Fixed Asset Manager to ensure Capital requests are complete and accurate, fixed asset capitalizations are timely, and reporting is accurate.
• Reporting & Controls – Interface with the Operations team, the Corporate Accounting team, the MOC and the FP&A team to ensure all reporting requirements are being met.
• Working with the Internal Audit Specialist, assist in maintaining a strong, cost-effective Controls environment ensuring compliance with US GAAP & IFRS accounting and reporting regulations for plant related costs, and SG accounting policies and procedures.
• Year-End – Assist with Year-end Inventory and Fixed Asset physicals, update standard costing, providing data for external & internal audits questions, etc.
• ERP Support and troubleshooting

Required Qualifications

• BS in Finance/Accounting
• 7+ years in accounting & FP&A environment
• Experience in a Manufacturing environment
• Advanced PC Skills Excel, Word, PowerPoint
• SAP Knowledge

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA/CPA

Benefits: Health, retirement, and other company-supported programs are available to eligible employees. The following benefits are examples of what Saint-Gobain North America offers:

• Health and Wellbeing – Medical, Prescription Drug, Vision, and Dental Insurance; Healthcare Savings and Flexible Spending Account options; LiveWell Wellness Program; Employee Assistance Program (EAP); Paid Time Off and Paid Parental Leave
• Retirement and Protection – 401(k) with Company Match, Retirement Accumulation Plan (RAP) Cash Balance Pension Plan; Company-provided Life Insurance, AD&D, Short-Term Disability; Voluntary life insurance, Long-Term Disability, Critical Illness
• Additional Benefits – Identity Theft Protection; Auto and Home Insurance; Pet Insurance and Discounts; Back-up Child and Elder Care

Saint-Gobain provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Saint-Gobain is an equal opportunity employer of individuals with disabilities and supports the hiring of veterans.

Applicants for roles based in Washington state or remote roles that would be worked from Washington state are encouraged to direct any concerns regarding the state’s Pay Transparency laws to the SGNA HR Compliance team at [e-mail].

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Finance and Accounting/Auditing

Industries

• Wholesale Building Materials