Plant Controller

Specific Responsibilities:

• Control Environment: Maintain strong financial controls through strict adherence to all existing SOX narratives and the pro-active partnership with both internal and external audit teams in the identification and resolution of potential current or future gaps.
  • Examples of key processes include revenue cut-off, warranty, obsolescence and other valuation reserves, account reconciliations.
• Safeguard of Assets: Execute policy and fiduciary responsibilities related to all plant assets.
  • Examples of asset oversight include: Requests for new capital assets, requests to dispose of existing assets, requests for inventory disposal, administrative oversight of cycle count programs, physical inventories and fixed asset audits.
• Statutory Reporting: Deliver all required financial reporting in alignment with US GAAP, Corporate Policy and consistent practices.
  • Examples of key statutory financial statements include: income statement, balance sheet, cash flows, supporting sub-ledgers.
• Managerial Reporting: Provide insightful month end analytical reporting which delivers context and implications of the financial results, trends, risks and opportunities.
  • Examples of key managerial reporting include: monthly operating review, weekly shipping trends, order rates, backlog, net working capital metrics such as inventory performance.
• Liaison to Corporate Finance: Facilitate timely and accurate response to requests originating from shared financial services.
  • Examples of functional liaison include: Support for income tax, property tax, Interco. Profit elimination, insurance programs, treasury, collections and other initiatives.
• Forecasting / Budgeting: Support the administration of timely and accurate forecasts of plant execution.
  • Key forecast deliverables include: Estimation of plant shipments, conversion and material price variances. Projection of both direct and indirect spending.
  • Key budget deliverables include: Timely development and load of production and spend data in accordance with Corporate guidance and systematic integration of material cost, efficiency and spend characteristics.
• Excellence in Manufacturing Accounting: Participation and oversite in the development and maintenance of standard costs for materials and multi-level manufactured products.
  • Key deliverables include annual cost revision in accordance with Corporate policy. Strong application knowledge of departmental rate development, material cost application and analysis of manufacturing variances including price, efficiency and absorption.
• Business Partnership: Participation and leadership in business processes such as IRX (Ingersoll Rand Execution Excellence) for the realization of both tactical and strategic objectives.
  • An example of business process leadership includes: Development and leadership of a swim lane in support of one or more Impact Daily Management teams.
• Deploy Talent: Foster a work environment that aligns the team in the achievement of corporate objectives while developing personnel and building redundancy to ensure continuity of performance.
  • Examples of team development include: Succession planning, personnel development plans, engagement enhancement through identification and resolution of potential impediments to progress. This role is expected to be a coach and mentor to all direct and indirect reports.

Required Qualifications:

• Ability to drive performance through others and support colleagues in pursuit of the team goal while ensuring a focus on deliverables
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, including the ability influence and coach teams towards financial objectives.
• Strong numerical skills, analytical thinking, careful structured approach applying accounting acumen related to a manufacturing environment
• B.S. in Accounting, Finance or related Business Concentrations.
• 5-7 years of experience, preferably in a manufacturing environments.
• <10% travel required.

Preferential Qualifications:

• MBA, CMA, CFA, CPA certification.
• Audit experience.
• SOX expertise and leadership
• Familiarity and experience with ERP systems, preferably SAP.
• High competency with Excel, HFM, data warehouses, and other business systems.
• Successful record of Results driven project management.