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Based in Chesterfield with about 25% travel to Seattle, this person standardizes practices across the two locations and serves as the primary finance partner to both Plant Managers - while also directly handling day-to-day transactional accounting (cash/bank reconciliation, JE preparation, intercompany accounting).\nWhat you'll do\nMulti-site financial reporting & controls\nOwn the monthly, quarterly, and annual close for both plants in accordance with GAAP and corporate policy, and present P&L and variance analysis to plant and corporate leadership.\nMaintain a strong internal controls environment at both sites, including SOX compliance; lead plant-level audits and partner with the BU Controller to deliver clean audits and drive findings to closure.\nPartner with corporate accounting and FP&A on consolidation, reporting packages, and budget/forecast cycles spanning both plants.\nOwn daily cash application and bank reconciliation (credit card fees, check/receipt clearing, ACH/wire/FX postings); run and reconcile SAP month-end reports and support corporate tax with SAP-based research and entries.\nPrepare and reconcile intercompany transactions between SAP and Oracle-based entities, and partner with IT to automate manual reconciliations, performing the interim manual research/reclass entries in the meantime.\nReview and approve capital expenditure requests for both sites, ensuring appropriate ROI analysis and documentation.\nStandard cost development & inventory management\nBuild a standard costing framework from the ground up at both plants (material, labor, and overhead standards; annual roll process; transition off average costing) and upgrade KPIs to reflect it.\nAnalyze manufacturing variances with local operations leadership to identify root causes and corrective actions; oversee physical and cycle inventory counts, and benchmark productivity, scrap, and yield across both sites.\nCreate and upgrade auditable finance/accounting SOPs across both plants, and establish a disciplined monthly reconciliation cadence with documented review and sign-off.\nInfluence & site partnership\nServe as the primary finance business partner to both Plant Managers, driving adoption of new standards through influence and leading the annual budgeting/forecast process.\nTravel approximately 25% of the time between Chesterfield and Seattle to maintain an on-site presence and partner directly with each plant’s leadership.\nWhat you'll bring\nBachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field required.\n10+ years of progressive accounting/finance experience, including a track record in manufacturing/plant controllership, with demonstrated leadership managing teams, projects, or change without formal authority.\nProven experience supporting multi-site finance operations, standardizing practices and driving accountability across locations.\nCPA or CMA strongly preferred.\nStrong knowledge of standard costing, manufacturing variance analysis, and inventory accounting.\nHands-on audit experience - providing evidence to auditors, tracing to source documentation, and building workpapers to evidence standards.\nSolid understanding of GAAP and internal controls, including SOX compliance experience.\nDirect hands-on SAP experience strongly preferred (cash management, bank reconciliation, month-end reporting); Oracle familiarity a plus. Advanced Excel required.\nComfort with hands-on transactional accounting - daily bank/cash reconciliation, JE preparation, and intercompany accounting - alongside strategic oversight.\nWillingness to travel approximately 25% of the time between Chesterfield, MI and Seattle, WA.\nNice-to-haves\nLean/Six Sigma or continuous improvement experience.\nExperience integrating or standardizing finance practices across newly combined or acquired sites.\nPrior experience supporting M&A integration or plant startup/turnaround.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4082,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":10,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-04T09:10:05Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":31,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.7,"p_room":0.45,"age_days":56,"expected_fill_days":35,"reasons":["conf:4","win:tail"],"computed_at":"2026-11-04T13:44:33Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/terrepower-senior-plant-controller","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/terrepower-senior-plant-controller.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-04T13:44:33Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":20747,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-05T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":3194725},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=3194725"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fterrepower-senior-plant-controller"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fterrepower-senior-plant-controller"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fterrepower-senior-plant-controller"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/terrepower-senior-plant-controller\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fterrepower-senior-plant-controller"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3734968}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"terrepower.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3734968},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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