Plant Finance Controller & Costing Lead

Vaco; Lyndhurst (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Vaco by Highspring in Lyndhurst, NJ, seeks a Controller to own budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting for the plant. You will manage month-end close, cost accounting, inventory valuation, and controls in collaboration with the Plant Manager and Warehouse Manager.

Responsibilities include developing the plant budget, analyzing variances, and driving improvements, while ensuring GAAP compliance and accurate production costing across ERP systems such as Oracle/SAP and QuickBooks.

Responsibilities

• Controller
• Budgeting, forecasting, strategy finance, P&L, cash flow modeling
• Strong GL month end close Prepare financial statements, cash flow
• Cost Accounting, Inventory, manufacturing variances, manage staff
• All financial activities within the plant.
• Conduct month and year end closing, ensuring all accounts are reconciled and balanced
• Ensure proper financial controls are in place and maintained according to GAAP.
• Partner with Plant Manager and Warehouse Manager, providing sound business analytics and understanding of financials, with associated recommendations for ongoing improvement.
• Works closely with operations to ensure accurate and timely recording of all production costs and effective analysis of production variances.
• Develops the Plant Budget and provides thorough analysis of variances
• Collaborate with site teams to explain results, collaborate on improvements, manage projects, identify inefficiencies, understand operations and lead development of complex analysis.
• Support the development of business justifications, including ROIs
• Control and reporting of fixed assets.
• Manages book and tax depreciation for fixed assets
• Responsible for Inventory controls, obsolete inventory, slow moving and proper valuation of each.
• Control and maintenance of standard costs
• Support all financial related audits
• Preparation of production plans and product costing.
• Estimate product costs to support quoting activities
• Manager accounting functions with respect to general ledger accounting, financial statements and account analysis
• Analyzes schedules, and financial statement highlights.
• Ensures account activity is recorded, corrections are made, adjustments are calculated and journal entries are prepared
• Reviews and prepares month/year end reports, accrual schedules and ad-hoc reports and analysis
• Assist with external and internal audits work with outside CPA firm
• Maintains Accounting files and inventory and costing strong ERP Systems, QuickBooks, ORACLE/SAPSAP

Job description

Vaco by Highspring in Lyndhurst, NJ, seeks a Controller to own budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting for the plant. You will manage month-end close, cost accounting, inventory valuation, and controls in collaboration with the Plant Manager and Warehouse Manager.

Responsibilities include developing the plant budget, analyzing variances, and driving improvements, while ensuring GAAP compliance and accurate production costing across ERP systems such as Oracle/SAP and QuickBooks.