Plant Controller

About the role

Ruskin Company seeks a Plant Controller to lead and coordinate the monthly financial close process, supporting the shared service center.

Responsibilities

• Lead the monthly financial close process, supporting the shared service center.
• Analyze monthly financial results for the full P&L at the plant, including calculation and validation of key finance and plant metrics.
• Ensure balance sheet reconciliations are performed and reviewed on a timely basis.
• Review all key and subjective reserve accounts on at least a quarterly basis.
• Prepare annual budgets, monthly forecasts, and weekly KPI’s and metrics for the facility.
• Partner with sales organization and communicate/align updates on S&OP vs financial outlooks.
• Work closely with engineering and procurement on the annual standards roll as well as monthly PPV reporting or job costing/pricing variance management.
• Review and monitor cycle count process and physical inventories.
• Analyze reports for variance problems, physical to book inventory variations, and take corrective action.
• Responsible for the inventory reporting and maintenance of ERP product costing information.
• Understand the bill of material (BOM) and routings.
• Aid in the preparation and review of CAR financial justifications for plant capital projects.
• Track capital project spending, timing, and cost impact against project plan, forecasts, and budget to understand and report variances.
• Work with project managers to assure timely capitalization of equipment placed in use.
• Assist and perform sample CAR post audits to verify savings.
• Cover periodic fixed asset physical inventory per company policies.
• Review payroll and labor analysis and ensure applicable payroll controls are in place.
• Ensure adherence to Corporate and Divisional accounting and internal control procedures, SOX compliance, and reporting requirements for all plants.
• Analyze plant operating costs in detail and partner with plant operation leaders to develop actions to increase profitability and enhance long-term return on investment.
• Work with operations on driving plant continuous improvement and validate all CI initiatives for accuracy.

Requirements

• Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and 5 years of experience in Accounting Manager, Finance Controller, or related occupation.
• Must have experience in the following skills:
• 5 years of experience with US GAAP and internal controls;
• 4 years of experience with cost accounting;
• 4 years of experience with financial analysis, reporting, and forecasting;
• 4 years of experience with OneStream financial system, HFM, or Essbase;
• 5 years of experience using ERP systems;
• 5 years of finance or accounting experience supporting manufacturing operations;
• 5 years of experience with Capital Appropriations Requests;
• 5 years of experience with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act compliance.