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Senior Plant Controller

S&C Electric Company

Chicago (IL)

Hybrid

USD 151,000 - 201,000

Full time

23 days ago

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Job summary

Join a leading company as a Senior Plant Controller, where you will oversee financial operations and ensure accurate reporting in a dynamic environment. This role involves strategic decision-making and financial leadership within the manufacturing sector, contributing to operational improvements and compliance.

Benefits

Health and Welfare Benefits
401(k) Retirement Savings
Employee Stock Ownership Plan

Qualifications

  • 10+ years progressive work experience in FP&A, Corporate Finance, and/or Commercial Finance.
  • Strong understanding of financial principles and accounting practices.

Responsibilities

  • Oversee financial operations for a value stream within the manufacturing organization.
  • Prepare timely month-end and quarterly reports, analyze financial statements.

Skills

Analytical Skills
Communication
Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field

Tools

Microsoft 365 Business Suite

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Base pay range

$151,140.00/yr - $200,318.80/yr

Job Description

As an S&C Electric team member, you’ll work on projects that have real-world impact. You’ll help transform the grid for resilient and reliable power worldwide. S&C has more than a 100-year history of innovation and has been 100% employee-owned since 2012. We continue this legacy as a trusted, forward-thinking leader in the electrical industry. You will advance a safer, more reliable, and more resilient electrical grid. Our products help the grid adapt to severe weather and transition to clean energy. We’re big enough to be a respected industry leader but small enough for you to impact our company directly. Our commitment gives you opportunities to impact on and off the job positively.

Join S&C to make an impact on tomorrow’s energy challenges and become an employee-owner!

Hours

  • 8:00 am – 5:00 pm (Mon-Fri) Hybrid

Compensation

At S&C, we are dedicated to providing competitive and equitable compensation for all our team members, and we are committed to transparency in our pay practices. The estimated annual base salary range for this position is $151140 - $200318.8 Individual pay within this salary range is determined by several compensable factors, including performance, knowledge, job-related skills and experience, and relevant education or training. This role is also eligible for S&C’s annual incentive plan (AIP), subject to eligibility criteria.

Join Our Team as a Senior Plant Controller!

Are you passionate about Finance? S&C Electric Company is seeking a dynamic individual to coordinate our plant controlling function. As a Senior Plant Controller, you’ll be crucial in ensuring smooth operations and supporting our diverse team. The Senior Plant Controller will oversee the financial operations for a value stream within the manufacturing organization, ensuring accurate financial reporting, planning, analysis, optimal financial performance, and compliance with financial policies and procedures.

Key Responsibilities

  • Key leader, providing financial leadership, ensuring the accuracy and integrity of financial-related information for a Value Stream
  • Prepare timely month-end and quarterly reports, analyze monthly financial statements, including variance analysis, and present findings to management
  • Identify and evaluate business drivers, KPIs, and trends to support strategic decision-making and operational improvements
  • Develop and monitor budgets and forecasts, providing insights for improvement, driving planning accuracy, and ensuring alignment with corporate goals for multiple highly complex and vertically integrated Value Streams
  • Partner with value stream leader to drive financial performance, providing insights and recommendations to optimize financial outcomes
  • Analyze and interpret financial data to identify trends, variances, and key performance drivers, providing actionable insights to Value Stream leader
  • Drive operational excellence for manufacturing financial processes, including cost accounting and analysis, inventory valuation, and manufacturing performance and risk reporting
  • Drive working capital and free cash flow improvement with ad-hoc plans on inventory reduction and managing capital expenditures budget and process
  • Ensure compliance with internal controls and financial regulations
  • Lead process improvement and cost-saving initiatives and optimize resource allocation to protect and increase the company’s profitability
  • Develop financial modeling for business strategies and plans, including capital expenditure viability and Production Operations business transition activities
  • Identify and mitigate business risks and organization blind spots to curb inefficiencies
  • Lead and mentor other finance professionals
  • Work with the Corporate Strategy team to implement strategic initiatives that align with key market and economic indicators
  • Work collaboratively with Product Development on developing financial modeling for production rearrangement, creation of new products, and business transition activities

What You’ll Need To Succeed

  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
  • 10+ years progressive work experience in FP&A, Corporate Finance, and/or Commercial Finance, preferably in a manufacturing environment, with at least 7+ years of leadership experience
  • Strong analytical skills and proficiency in financial software
  • Proficiency in the Microsoft 365 Business Suite (e.g., Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook)
  • Excellent communication and leadership abilities
  • Strong understanding of financial principles and accounting practices, including budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis
  • Ability to analyze complex financial data and provide actionable insights for operational improvement
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and present financial information
  • Capability to lead finance teams and influence decision-making at the management level.
  • Successfully supervise, guide, and coach team members
  • Strong critical thinking skills to identify problems and develop solutions in a manufacturing context
  • High level of accuracy and attention to detail in financial reporting and analysis

Preferred

  • MBA degree
  • Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or Chartered Financial Accountant (CFA)
  • Oracle ERP Proficiency with Oracle ERP, Oracle EPM Cloud, and other accounting software used by the organization
  • Experience with a mix of financial and cost accounting, FP&A, and business systems analysis experience supporting financial environments and a good understanding of ERP systems in a manufacturing environment

S&C Electric is committed to equal-opportunity employment. All employees and applicants will be considered without regard to age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation to complete the application, please email us at TAsupport@sandc.com .

No fixed deadline

About Us

In 1909, S&C Electric Company transformed the delivery of safe, reliable electricity with the invention of the Liquid Power Fuse. Today, as the world faces extreme weather events and the demand for electricity grows, S&C continues to innovate and advance the electrical grid, ensuring reliable and resilient power for homes, communities, and critical infrastructure around the world.

With a diverse, global workforce and core values around integrity, safety, and quality, S&C is a trusted industry leader and top workplace that offers meaningful careers to more than 3,500 team members. As a people-first organization, S&C is committed to fostering an inclusive and collaborative workplace where team members advance their careers through robust talent-development programs and involved leadership.

S&C’s deeply rooted belief diversity fosters greater creativity, innovation, and success guides the company to advance and sustain a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace culture.

S&C provides a comprehensive and competitive benefit package that includes the following (eligibility requirements apply):

  • Health and Welfare Benefits: Medical & Prescription, Dental, Vision, Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, , Health Savings Account (HSA), Group Life Insurance, optional Supplemental Life and AD&D Insurance, Wellbeing Resources including Employee Assistance Program and Family Forming Benefits (i.e., Adoption and Fertility support)
  • Leave Benefits: Vacation Time, Sick Time, Paid Holidays and Company Shutdown days, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, Other Leaves, Paid Parental Time and Military Leave

Retirement Benefits: 401(k) Retirement Savings and Employee Stock Ownership Plan (KSOP) offering traditional and Roth 401(k) options and an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) component; KSOP participants can receive annual ESOP company contributions of over 11% of eligible earnings (3% Core, up to 3.5% Match, Variable Periodic).

About The Team

On the (Admin, HR, General Management, Strategy, IT, F&A, HSE, S&L) team, we are responsible for several core business functions and collaborate with departments across S&C to collectively achieve S&C's mission. We are key players in facilitating how S&C provides long-term value to our employee owners. Always focused on the big picture of revolutionizing the energy sector, we take pride in the impact we have on S&C by empowering our team members to succeed.

Seniority level
  • Seniority level
    Not Applicable
Employment type
  • Employment type
    Full-time
Job function
  • Job function
    Accounting/Auditing and Finance
  • Industries
    Utilities, Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing, and Renewable Energy Semiconductor Manufacturing

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