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As the Plant Controller, you will be the #1 site financial leader at our growing manufacturing plant in Warsaw, Indiana, operating in a world class precision engineering environment within a global group. This exciting role is both strategic and hands-on, providing close financial management supporting growth, profitability and cash management and deploying LEAN Finance practices, this role requires excellent business partnership with plant commercial and operational teams. You'll play a pivotal role in driving step-change performance improvement and so be fully involved in Strategy Deployment while supporting continuous improvement with LEAN Daily Management, and helping leadership make informed business decisions.
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Financial Reporting & Compliance:
- Prepare and present monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports to plant and corporate leadership (note the accounting factory / trial balance compilation is performed elsewhere in the group)
- Ensure compliance with internal controls, financial regulations, and GAAP
- Support audit readiness of US financial for group consolidation processes
- Maintain a robust control framework.
Budgeting, Forecasting & Analysis:- Lead the plant’s budgeting, forecasting, and monthly performance reporting processes.
- Introduce Value Stream reporting and deploy Box Score thinking to drive performance improvement across value stream performance, capacity and operational KPIs
- Analyze business performance against Targets to Improve and explain key business drivers.
Business Partnering:- Partner with commercial, operations, supply chain, and engineering to support data-driven decision-making.
- Serve as a proactive and trusted financial partner to plant leadership—translating financial insights into commercial and operational actions.
- Collaborate across functions to evaluate capital investments, support optimization of pricing decisions, drive spend reduction and initiatives, and support in conversion of productivity opportunities.
- Participate in cross-functional planning and performance reviews to align financial goals with commercial and operational objectives.
Cost Accounting & Product Costing:- Maintain accurate standard costs for inventory measurement purposes (only) and support regular cost updates (labor, machine rates, overhead).
- Support transition to Target Costing methodologies for customer quotes
- Validate and improve BOM and routing accuracy.
- Analyze value stream profitability and product family material marginality to support commercial strategies.
Operational & Inventory Control:- Ensure inventory completeness, existence and accuracy and manage regular cycle counts and reconciliations
- Track and analyze production and non-production related spending variances and partner with production teams to resolve root causes of sub-optimal business processes.
- Support CapEx tracking and ROI analysis, including LEAN-based investment reviews.
LEAN Finance & Continuous Improvement:- Apply LEAN principles to finance processes, including waste reduction, standardization, and process simplification.
- Support 80/20 business simplification, value stream mapping, and other LEAN tools to improve decision speed and clarity.
- Contribute to spend control and productivity initiatives through data-driven insight and financial modelling to gain insight to enable foresight.
Treasury, Cash Flow & Receivables Management:- Manage all levers of cash flow and forecasting at the plant level; support working capital optimization.
- Monitor receivables and partner with commercial teams on credit risk and collections.
Internal Controls & Systems:- Maintain strong internal controls and ensure data integrity across financial systems.
- Support system transitions, enhancements, and automation projects (ERP experience preferred, ideally MS Dynamics).
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- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance (required); CPA or MBA preferred.
- 5+ years of progressive experience in accounting and finance, with at least 2 years in a manufacturing environment.
- Strong foundation in cost accounting, operational finance, and business performance analysis.
- Demonstrated understanding and experience with LEAN or continuous improvement methodologies (practical involvement preferred over certification)
- Leaning, doing and teaching mindset to self improvement and preparedness to learn, implement and coach of LEAN Finance techniques
- Advanced Excel skills; experience with ERP systems such as Microsoft Dynamics strongly preferred.
- Excellent analytical, interpersonal, and communication skills.
- Self-starter with a proactive mindset and strong attention to detail.
- Must have valid U.S. work authorization
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- A career ladder system, which defines the career progression path for employees based on their skills, experience, and length of service
- Integrated career progression framework with other processes in the organization as performance reviews, goals and OKRs, and promotion management.
- Internal Hiring – Advertising posts and promotion opportunities within the organization
- Providing employee development that readies workers for progression, such as training, coaching, mentoring, or involvement in special projects
- Regular Training Opportunities to develop skills at all levels
- Mentoring and Coaching schemes that give the individual’s the attention they need
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Remote Working
Medical Insurance
Life Insurance
Mental Well-being
Family Support and Care
Uniform
Paid Holiday
Learning Environment
Subsidised Healthy Meals
Work-Life Balance
Annual Health Check-ups
Teamwork
Safety and Working for the Community
Open and Transparent Culture
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Resume screening
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Preliminary meeting
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Assessment round
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Final interview
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