Manager, Site Controller

Financial Manager

This dynamic and strategic leadership role is responsible for overseeing financial management and operational control at our Morehead, KY plant. As a key business partner to the local operations team, this position plays a critical role in driving financial performance, ensuring fiscal accountability, and supporting strategic decision-making through in-depth analysis and forecasting.

The role encompasses financial reporting, cost management, and variance analysis, providing leadership with the insights needed to optimize efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance profitability. Additionally, this position proactively collaborates with plant leadership to develop and deploy key operational metrics, identify improvement opportunities, and implement sustainable financial strategies that align with the long-term goals.

Responsibilities

• Acts as a strategic business partner by providing proactive financial analysis that drives informed decision-making. Anticipates financial trends and risks to support long-term sustainable growth.
• Transforms financial data into actionable insights, enabling agile decision-making in dynamic environments. Fosters a culture of financial accountability across the organization.
• Bridges financial strategy with day-to-day operations, ensuring efficient resource allocation. Actively contributes to innovation and digital transformation initiatives.
• Summarize and present financial results and key sales and cost drivers.
• Build and lead variance analysis to key benchmarks (budget, forecast, prior year, etc.) and clearly communicate key assumptions / inputs to plant leadership to ensure achievement of performance objectives.
• Be a key business partner to management, providing insight into the financials of the facility.
• Develop and deploy key operational metrics and analysis to support daily management of the business while proactively managing costs and working capital to drive sustainable improvement.
• Make assessments and recommendations based on regular review / analysis to site leadership.
• Partner with operations to support make / buy decisions, capital investments, inventory management, ad hoc analysis, and other needs.
• Lead inventory standard costing and margin analysis activities, including managing the annual standards roll and physical inventory.
• Conduct ad-hoc financial analysis / special projects to assist team in understanding business performance & offer solutions to improve performance.
• Partner with central accounting to manage and maintain an effective controls environment.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

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