Plant Controller

Plant Controller

DuraServ is looking for a Plant Controller who owns the full accounting function for manufacturing, distribution, and emerging businesses with the financial acumen to lead, the credibility to influence, and the standards to never compromise.

Plant Controller | Corporate Finance | Manufacturing. Distribution. Full P&L Accountability.

DuraServ Corporate | On-Site Role | 25% Travel | Supervisory Responsibility

This Is Not a Reporting Role. It's a Leadership Role.

DuraServ is expanding beyond its core dock and door service business into manufacturing, distribution, and emerging business divisions that require a financial leader who can do more than close the books. They need someone who can translate complex operational data into business intelligence, build the financial infrastructure for a scaling enterprise, and lead a team to execute at the highest level of accuracy and accountability.

As Plant Controller, you own the full accounting function across manufacturing and distribution operations general accounting, inventory management, standard costing, variance analysis, financial close, budgeting, forecasting, and audit coordination. You lead a team. You partner with operations leadership. You serve as the financial voice in the room when business unit leaders make the decisions that shape profitability.

If you've built financial infrastructure in a manufacturing environment, led a team to an unassailable standard of accuracy, and earned the trust of operations leaders who don't want an accountant they want an advisor this role was built for you.

What You'll Own

The Financials

• Oversee all direct accounting functions general accounting, inventory, and financial analysis including standard costing, production variances, material usage, and margin analysis
• Guarantee the accuracy and timeliness of the monthly close process your name is on the financial statements, and you hold that standard without exception
• Develop financial forecasts, measure actual performance against plans and budgets, and identify the key drivers behind every variance with enough clarity that a non-financial leader can act on it
• Analyze and interpret financial results, translating complex data into narratives that inform business decisions you communicate with precision to both financial and operational audiences

The Operations Partnership

• Maintain and lead all inventory processes cycle counts, physical inventory, reserves, obsolescence, WIP, and reconciliations between operations and finance zero tolerance for unexplained variances
• Partner with business unit leaders to support strategic decision-making, surface cost-reduction opportunities, and advise on process improvements that improve organizational performance
• Track and report operational KPIs alongside financial results, supporting plant leadership with the visibility they need to make informed, timely decisions
• Serve as the primary point of coordination for internal and external auditors, taxing authorities, and legal entities organized, responsive, and compliant

The Team & Infrastructure

• Lead the accounting team managing hiring, workload allocation, performance management, training, and development; you set the standard by modeling it
• Develop, implement, and maintain documented accounting policies and procedures with a robust system of internal controls that mitigates risk before auditors find it
• Drive ERP optimization and implementation efforts, ensuring accounting systems support operational scale and financial reporting requirements

Who You Are

You hold the financial function to a standard that operations leaders respect and auditors can't challenge. You lead through credibility earned in the details, demonstrated in the boardroom.

• A manufacturing accounting expert you understand standard costing, production variances, WIP, and inventory reconciliation at a level that earns credibility on the plant floor, not just the conference room
• A financial translator you convert complex data into clear narratives that non-financial leaders can understand and act on; your reports don't require a decoder ring
• A people leader your team performs at a high level because you set the standard, develop their skills, and hold them accountable without micromanaging
• A strategic partner operations leaders come to you not because they have to, but because your financial perspective makes their decisions better
• An infrastructure builder you've designed accounting policies, implemented controls, and participated in ERP implementations that created stability and scale
• A compliance anchor auditors find nothing because you built the controls that prevented everything; your documentation is current, complete, and defensible
• Analytically relentless variances don't go unexplained, budgets don't go unexamined, and forecasts don't go unchallenged on your watch

What We're Looking For

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field required; CPA or CMA strongly preferred
• 5+ years of progressive accounting or finance experience, with demonstrated leadership responsibility
• In-depth knowledge of GAAP, standard costing, inventory accounting, and manufacturing financial operations
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office 365, particularly Excel for financial modeling and variance analysis
• Experience managing a financial close process and delivering accurate, timely monthly financial statements

Preferred

• Manufacturing industry accounting experience standard costing, WIP, production variances, and inventory reserves in a plant environment
• ERP system experience with direct involvement in an ERP implementation or optimization initiative
• Experience partnering with operations leadership as a strategic financial advisor, not just a reporting function
• Background in distribution or multi-entity accounting environments

What's in It for You

• Competitive compensation commensurate with experience and leadership scope
• Full benefits package: medical, dental, vision, and 401K with company match
• Company-provided life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
• A financial function to lead and shape the systems, the controls, the team, and the standard are yours to build
• Strategic partnership with both corporate finance leadership and operations leadership your seat at the table is real
• Direct exposure to a growing enterprise expanding into manufacturing, distribution, and emerging business lines
• 25% travel enough engagement with the operations you support to be genuinely effective

A Direct Note to the Right Candidate.

If you've been the financial leader who built the controls others rely on, translated the numbers that operations leaders actually understood, and held a close process to a standard that auditors couldn't touch you know what this role requires.

DuraServ is building something. The manufacturing and distribution functions are growing, the financial infrastructure needs a leader who can scale with it, and the operations team needs an advisor they trust not just a controller who closes the books.

Lead with winning confidence. Set a gold standard of performance. This is where both happen.

APPLY NOW Financial Leaders Wanted.

Hit Apply. Tell us what financial function you've led, what controls you've built, and what your close process looks like under pressure.

Please note: This is NOT a remote or hybrid role. On-site presence is required with 25% planned business travel.

About DuraServ

DuraServ is a national leader in commercial dock and door solutions, operating across the U.S. and Canada since 2001. As we expand into manufacturing, distribution, and emerging business lines, we are building the financial leadership team to match our ambition and we hire people who hold themselves to the standard the business deserves.

DuraServ is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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