Controller - North America

Controller

As the Controller, you will direct, plan and validate all accounting activities to ensure proper reporting of plant operations and financials. Identify and resolve reporting discrepancies, whether personnel, policy or system related. Analyze plant financial results, while providing recommendations to maintain and improve overall plant performance. Plan and develop plant annual operating budget, quarterly forecasts and monthly flashes that meet desired financial performance, service, safety, and quality objectives. Ensure the integrity of product standard costs. Direct payroll activities to ensure proper payment of wages, adherence to all policies and the proper distribution of labor hours and dollars.

Responsibilities

• Direct and validate all accounting activities including labor distribution, inventories, general receipts, scrap, rework, accounts payable, closed order variances, fixed assets transactions, journal entries. (Includes monthly reconciliation of balance sheet accounts.)
• Identify and resolve reporting discrepancies and concerns involving personnel or system processing or plant policies and procedures.
• Analyze monthly plant financial results. Initiate and implement cost reduction recommendations in both product and operations. Explain variances and corrective action taken to eliminate unfavorable variances or maintain favorable variances.
• Review and approve capital expenditure requests. Ensure accuracy of assumptions and accountability for attaining promised results.
• Provide weekly financial flashes with emphasis on action items necessary to keep or bring the facility back on track to meet financial goals.
• Formal four-quarter rolling forecast process is completed and submitted to corporate quarterly. Explain reasoning for significant changes from prior periods.
• Plan and develop the annual plant operating budgets based on current plant capabilities and desired cost, service and quality objectives.
• Manage annual physical inventory process.
• Set standard cost standards via annual cost roll. Make recommendations and focus plant management on products or product groups that need improvement.
• Direct payroll activities to ensure proper calculation of wages, deductions & taxes, including the timely distribution of payroll checks / advises. Ensure adherence to contractual agreements and payroll policies.
• Ensure plant SOX control compliance.
• Direct any special assignments required to enhance plant performance.

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