Full-time Financial Controller, CCL Label

The Plant Controller is responsible for the financial leadership, accounting

integrity, cost controls, budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis of a

24/7 manufacturing facility.

This position serves as a key business partner to Plant Management and Corporate

Finance, providing accurate and timely financial information while developing a

strong understanding of plant operations. The Controller is expected to go

beyond traditional accounting responsibilities and actively evaluate the

financial impact of production performance, material usage, labor, inventory,

scrap, downtime, capital investment, and continuous improvement activities.

The successful candidate will be comfortable working with Operations,

Maintenance, Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Human Resources, and Corporate

Finance and will maintain strong financial controls while helping plant

leadership identify opportunities to improve cost, productivity, and

profitability.

Because the facility operates continuously, the Controller must understand that

significant production activity occurs outside normal office hours and

periodically work with or support personnel across all shifts.

02Qualifications

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT & REPORTING

• Lead the plant's accounting and financial reporting activities.
• Ensure accurate and timely completion of monthly, quarterly, and annual
• financial close activities.
• Prepare, review, and analyze plant financial statements and operating
• results.
• Maintain appropriate accounting records, reconciliations, accruals, and
• supporting documentation.
• Investigate unusual financial results, transactions, or variances and ensure
• appropriate corrective action.
• Provide plant leadership with meaningful financial analysis rather than
• simply reporting financial results.
• Support Corporate Finance requirements, audits, reporting, and financial
• initiatives.
• Maintain strong internal financial controls and segregation of duties.
• Ensure accounting activities comply with company policies and applicable
• accounting requirements.

03MANUFACTURING COST ACCOUNTING

• Maintain and continuously improve the facility's manufacturing cost-accounting
• processes, including:
• Standard costing
• Actual manufacturing costs
• Raw material consumption
• Direct and indirect labor
• Manufacturing overhead
• Work-in-process inventory
• Finished goods inventory
• Inventory valuation
• Scrap and material losses
• Production and purchase price variances
• Labor and overhead variances
• Inventory adjustments
• Cost-of-goods-sold analysis
• Work closely with Operations and Engineering to understand the operational
• causes behind significant manufacturing variances.

04PLANT-FLOOR FINANCIAL ANALYSIS

• The Controller is expected to develop a working knowledge of the manufacturing
• processes and regularly engage with Operations rather than manage plant finances
• exclusively from the accounting office.
• Analyze the financial effects of:
• Scrap and yield loss
• Machine and process downtime
• Production efficiency
• Overtime
• Staffing changes
• Production scheduling
• Material consumption
• Equipment reliability
• Maintenance spending
• Inventory levels
• Process improvements
• Operational disruptions
• Translate plant performance into financial terms that managers can use to make
• business decisions.

05BUDGETING & FORECASTING

• Lead development of the annual plant operating budget.
• Prepare periodic financial forecasts.
• Develop departmental spending expectations with functional managers.
• Monitor actual results against budget and forecast.
• Identify unfavorable trends early and communicate them to leadership.
• Prepare financial scenarios to support operational decisions.
• Assist management in establishing realistic cost-reduction and productivity
• targets.

06INVENTORY CONTROL

• Maintain financial integrity of raw-material, WIP, and finished-goods
• inventory.
• Reconcile inventory records to the general ledger.
• Support cycle-count and physical-inventory processes.
• Investigate significant inventory discrepancies.
• Review obsolete, excess, slow-moving, or questionable inventory.
• Partner with Operations and Supply Chain to strengthen inventory controls.
• Evaluate inventory adjustments and ensure appropriate authorization and
• documentation.

07CAPITAL EXPENDITURES

• Support development of capital expenditure requests and financial
• justification.
• Evaluate payback, savings assumptions, and expected financial returns.
• Maintain appropriate accounting for approved capital projects.
• Monitor spending against authorized capital budgets.
• Ensure completed projects are appropriately capitalized and placed into
• service.
• Support post-project reviews when appropriate to determine whether
• anticipated financial benefits were achieved.

08INTERNAL CONTROLS & COMPLIANCE

• Maintain effective plant-level financial controls.
• Identify financial-control weaknesses and recommend improvements.
• Maintain appropriate documentation supporting financial transactions.
• Support internal and external financial audits.
• Monitor spending authority and approval processes.
• Ensure transactions are properly recorded, supported, and authorized.
• Assist management in reducing financial, inventory, and asset-control risk.

09OPERATIONAL BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP

• Develop strong working relationships with:
• Plant Manager
• Operations leadership
• Shift Managers
• Maintenance
• Engineering
• Quality
• Supply Chain/Purchasing
• Human Resources
• Corporate Finance
• Provide financial guidance that helps these groups understand the economic
• consequences of operational decisions.
• Your existing internal role documentation specifically describes the facility as
• a four-shift, 24/7 manufacturing operation involving Furnace/Casting, Press, and
• Packing, making cross-shift operational understanding particularly important for
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10KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS

• Success in the position should include demonstrated control and understanding
• of:
• Financial reporting accuracy
• Month-end close
• Manufacturing cost accuracy
• Inventory accuracy
• Scrap and yield cost
• Material-cost variances
• Labor-cost variances
• Manufacturing overhead
• Budget performance
• Forecast accuracy
• Working capital
• Capital expenditure control
• Internal controls
• Audit compliance
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11EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

REQUIRED

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a
• closely related discipline.
• Approximately 5+ years of progressively responsible accounting or finance
• experience, preferably including manufacturing.
• Strong understanding of general accounting and financial controls.
• Demonstrated knowledge of manufacturing cost accounting.
• Experience with budgeting, forecasting, inventory accounting, and variance
• analysis.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel.
• Experience working with ERP/accounting systems.
• Ability to analyze financial and operational data and clearly explain
• conclusions to non-financial managers.

12PREFERRED

• Previous Plant Controller, Assistant Controller, Cost Accounting Manager, or
• Senior Cost Accountant experience in a manufacturing environment.
• CPA and/or CMA certification.
• Experience in metals, automotive, high-volume, process, or other
• capital-intensive manufacturing.
• Experience supporting a multi-shift or 24/7 manufacturing operation.
• Experience with ERP-based standard costing and inventory-control systems.
• Experience with Lean Manufacturing, continuous improvement, or cost-reduction
• initiatives.
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13KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• The successful candidate should demonstrate:
• Strong understanding of manufacturing accounting and standard costing.
• Strong financial analytical ability.
• High attention to detail without losing sight of overall business
• performance.
• Ability to identify the operational causes behind financial variances.
• Strong problem-solving and root-cause-analysis skills.
• Ability to challenge assumptions professionally and constructively.
• Ability to communicate financial concepts to operational employees and
• managers.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills.
• Ability to prioritize responsibilities during month-end close and other
• high-demand periods.
• Sound judgment and high ethical standards.
• Ability to maintain confidential business, financial, and employee
• information.
• Willingness to spend time on the manufacturing floor learning processes and
• understanding operating conditions.
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1424/7 MANUFACTURING EXPECTATIONS

• Although this position normally operates during standard business hours, the
• Plant Controller supports a facility that operates 24 hours per day, 7 days per
• week.
• The Controller must therefore be willing to:
• Adjust work hours periodically to understand or address issues occurring on
• other shifts.
• Work with managers and supervisors representing all operating shifts.
• Respond appropriately to significant financial, inventory, or operational
• issues occurring outside normal business hours.
• Participate in physical inventories or other activities that may occasionally
• require evening, weekend, or off-shift support.
• Maintain financial processes that function effectively regardless of the
• shift on which production activity occurs.
• This does not mean the Controller should function as a 24/7 on-call position.
• Rather, the expectation is that the Controller understands and supports the
• entire operation, not simply first-shift activity.
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15LEADERSHIP EXPECTATIONS

• The Plant Controller should be:

16A financial steward

• Protecting company assets and ensuring financial information is accurate.

17An operational business partner

• Helping plant leadership understand the financial consequences of manufacturing
• decisions.

18A constructive challenger

• Questioning unexplained variances, excessive spending, inventory discrepancies,
• and unsupported assumptions.

19A problem solver

• Working with Operations to identify the underlying causes of unfavorable
• financial results.

20A forward-looking analyst

• Identifying unfavorable trends before they become significant financial
• problems.