Senior Plant Controller - Remote - 50% Travel

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Perform ongoing plant accounting functions including balancing detail and general ledgers, month-end account analysis and reconciliations, and monthly general ledger close.
• Ensure accurate and consistent application of cost accounting principles, inventory controls, and operational reporting across all sites.
• Maintain the integrity of accounting information by reviewing variance analysis for all items impacting GM, including MUV and labor/burden absorption.
• Balance and maintain subsidiary accounts by verifying, allocating, posting and reconciling transactions and resolving discrepancies.
• Aid plant managers in interpreting operating results and provide recommendations for cost reduction, margin improvement, and profit enhancement.
• Maintain the fixed asset capitalization process and supporting FA system to ensure accurate asset values and depreciation.
• Lead Margin Committee activities, including follow-up and improvement tracking at each site.
• Mentor and develop plant finance support teams, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and accountability.
• Collaborate with IT and finance systems teams to enhance reporting tools and ERP utilization for plant operational benefit.
• Support integration of new sites, systems, or processes as part of standardization, growth, or transformation initiatives.

Knowledge, Skills & Competencies

• 5+ years of hands-on accounting experience in a manufacturing environment required, multi-site experience a plus.
• Strong knowledge of cost accounting, inventory control, and financial analysis.
• Prominent leadership and team development capabilities.
• Excellent analytical, strategic thinking, and communication skills.
• Comfortable in a multi-ERP environment (e.g., Epicor, JobBoss, M2M) and advanced Excel.
• Ability to influence cross-functional teams and drive financial accountability.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office; advanced Microsoft Excel skills required.
• Ability to maintain a sense of urgency, handle stressful situations, multitask and ability to prioritize work.
• Ability to work in a multi-site team environment as well as autonomously.

Work Environment

• Open concept office environment.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate.

Physical Requirements

• While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to sit, stand or walk; use hands, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear.
• Ability to lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
• Ability to sit for extended periods of time up to 10 hours per day.
• Ability to view computer screens for extended periods of up to 10 hours per day.