Finance Plant Controller, Vineland

Role Purpose

Provide financial leadership for the Plant in meeting all financial and managerial accounting requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Manages delivery of internal and external financials for or on behalf of business units and works to ensure the integrity and completeness of all financial deliverables

• Evaluates and manages tracking of financial and/or operational metrics and performances and summarizes findings

• Helps implement audits and serves as a point of escalation for compliance and service-level issues

• Implements and suggests initiatives to improve day-to-day operations (e.g., ORM, IT, business processes) to ensure financial accounting systems are maintained according to reporting requirements

• Ensures that projects are completed in a timely manner and in accordance with established practices and reporting requirements

• Reviews and analyzes financial and budgetary reports for accuracy; contributes to the identification of key insights

• Collaborates cross-functionally to support, explain, and translate financial issues for the operational sides of the business

• Assists Business and Division leaders in the development and maintenance of planning and budgeting processes (forecast budget, 5 year plan),  preparation of financial and management reports, procedures, and presentation of findings

• May partner with business leaders to make key operational business decisions; may engage and influence senior management in areas such as cost and product line management

• May supervise a small team, conducts goal setting and performance processes to prioritize and align with overall company and function-wide goals and objectives, coaches talent, and serves as an organizational resource

• Proven ability to successfully manage multiple internal and external financial deliverables for one or more business units, in accordance with controls and accounting requirements

• Experience resolving compliance and reporting issues, providing recommendations to improve processes and guidance to junior colleagues

• Demonstrated success facilitating cross-functional communications to ensure understanding of financial results and timely delivery of  deliverables

• Experience managing data collection processes and investigating potential concerns to ensure accuracy and compliance with reporting requirements

• Experience managing one or more components of the planning and budgeting process, in collaboration with the controller and business

• Experience interpreting financial data and recommending alternative solutions and potential risks

• Experience supporting components of unstructured senior management requests, leveraging strategic networks to obtain information and synthesizing key insights

• Experience leveraging and managing relationships with plant and non-Finance teams to strengthen knowledge of production process and to obtain data critical to executing business tasks

Experiences/Education - Required

Required Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or Business Administration

Required Skills:

• Knowledge of financial and management accounting
• Strong computer skills, including SAP, Khalix, People Soft
• Ability to be comfortable interacting and communicating with all aspects of the business, including plant staff and senior managers.
• Supervisory experience
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Sound cross functional skills
• Ability to act under pressure in fast-paced environment

Experiences/Education - Desired

• Team player
• Business partner
• Ability to act on initiative
• Customer focused
• Ability to embrace change