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The Controller supports profitable growth, ramp-up decisions, inventory health, capital deployment, and cost discipline while ensuring financial controls and reporting accuracy.\nWhat You’ll Be Doing\nLead financial reporting, monthly close support, forecasting, budgeting, cost analysis, and management reporting for the site.\nAnalyze labor, overhead, inventory, scrap, rework, productivity, purchase price variance, premium freight, capital spending, and manufacturing cost drivers.\nPartner with site leadership to identify financial risks, improvement opportunities, operating tradeoffs, and resource allocation decisions.\nSupport capital investment requests, business cases, payback analysis, project tracking, capitalization, and post-completion reviews.\nMaintain financial controls, accounting accuracy, compliance, standard costing, inventory valuation, and cost center governance.\nSupport ramp-up planning by modeling labor needs, overhead absorption, startup costs, inventory requirements, capacity investments, and productivity assumptions.\nPartner with Supply Chain on inventory health, cycle count results, excess/obsolete risk, purchase price variance, and freight/expedite impacts.\nPartner with Operations and CI to validate productivity savings, scrap reduction, labor efficiency improvements, and cost-reduction projects.\nPartner with Engineering on equipment justification, tooling costs, make-versus-buy analysis, standard cost impacts, and capital project controls.\nPrepare operating review materials, financial bridges, variance explanations, forecast updates, and leadership decision packages.\nEnsure compliance with corporate finance policies, internal controls, approval requirements, and audit documentation expectations.\nDevelop financial acumen across the site by explaining cost drivers and helping leaders make fact-based decisions.\nWhat We're Looking For\nQualifications\nBachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business, or a related field required; master's degree, CPA, CMA, or equivalent certification preferred.\nManufacturing finance, cost accounting, plant controlling, FP&A, or operations finance experience required.\nExperience with ERP systems, standard costing, inventory valuation, capital controls, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis preferred.\nAbility to communicate financial concepts to operational leaders and influence decisions through data.\nTechnical Requirements\nDeep understanding of manufacturing finance, cost accounting, budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, inventory valuation, capital tracking, and financial controls.\nAbility to analyze labor, overhead, scrap, productivity, purchase price variance, inventory, capital spending, standard cost, and manufacturing cost drivers.\nExperience preparing financial reports, operating review materials, forecasts, annual plans, business cases, payback analysis, and post-completion reviews.\nWorking knowledge of financial systems, internal controls, cost center management, standard costing, and compliance requirements.\nAbility to partner with site leadership to translate operational performance into financial impact and support business decision-making.\nWhat You'll Get from Us\nWe promote from within and support your learning with mentoring, training, and access to global opportunities.\nYou’ll have flexibility, autonomy, and support to do your best work while maintaining a healthy work-life balance. 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