A well-stablished manufacturing company seeks an Assistant Controller to join their dynamic team. The Assistant Controller will serve as a financial partner to the Plant Manager, translating operational data into actionable insights that improve throughput, yield, scrap, and margin. This role is responsible for monthly close activities, cost accounting, reconciliations, and maintaining strong internal controls while supporting internal and external audits. In partnership with the North America Controller, this position contributes to profitability analysis, budgets, forecasts, and monthly business reviews by providing clear variance narratives and actionable recommendations for leadership. The Assistant Controller will also standardize and automate reporting, track capital expenditures, and drive continuous process improvements to increase efficiency across the plant.

Responsibilities

• Serve as financial partner to the Plant Manager, translating data into actions that improve throughput, yield, scrap, and margin.
• Lead weekly performance variance reviews, identify root causes, and implement corrective actions.
• Partner with the North America Controller on profitability analysis, including pricing, quoting, and mix analysis.
• Support the monthly close process, including journals, accruals, standard entries, and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Maintain internal controls, documentation, and support external/internal audits.
• Manage standard costs, BOMs/routings, and cost rolls in partnership with engineering and operations.
• Analyze manufacturing variances (PPV, labor/overhead absorption, rate/efficiency, scrap/yield) and recommend improvements.
• Assist with building plant budgets and forecasts, including sales, COGS, labor/machine hours, and spend, aligned to capacity and staffing plans.
• Contribute to monthly business reviews with variance narratives and action plans for leadership.
• Track capital expenditures, including business cases, approvals, spend vs. budget, and benefits realization.
• Standardize reports and automate recurring analysis using advanced Excel.
• Document and continuously improve SOPs to scale best practices across plants.
• Perform additional job duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive accounting/finance experience, including manufacturing cost accounting.
• Solid knowledge of U.S. GAAP.
• Proven ownership of GL reconciliations, monthly close, and audit support.
• Advanced Excel skills (Power Query, Power Pivot, dynamic arrays, XLOOKUP/INDEX MATCH, PivotTables, robust workbook design).
• Experience with modern ERP systems (e.g., NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, Epicor, Infor; SyteLine preferred).
• Strong communication skills with the ability to challenge and influence peers and plant leadership.
• Ability to work effectively from the shop floor to executive presentations.
• Exposure to controlling/FP&A functions (budgets, forecasts, reporting packages, margin analysis).
• Process automation mindset (templating; VBA/macros a plus).
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field required. CMA or CPA certification preferred.

*This position will be onsite in the beginning but can transition to hybrid

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