Plant Controller

Plant Controller

BH Job ID:


BH-5355-1

SF Job Req ID:


20955

Ingersoll Rand is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

Job Title:
Plant Controller

Location:
Sidney, OH

About Us


Imagine a company with technology leadership of over 160 years, yet it operates with the energy of a startup. Ingersoll Rand has dedicated itself to Making Life Better for its employees, customers, shareholders, and planets. We produce innovative and mission-critical flow creation and life science technologies - from compressors to precision handling of liquids, gasses, and powers - to increase industrial productivity, efficiency, and sustainability. Supported by over 80+ brands, our products are used in various end-markets including life sciences, food and beverage, clean energy, industrial manufacturing, infrastructure, and more. Across the globe, we're driving growth with an entrepreneurial spirit and ownership mindset. Learn more at irco.com and join us to own your future.

Job Overview


Lead Financial Performance. Help Shape What Comes Next. Join LeROI, an Ingersoll Rand Center of Excellence for gas compression technology, manufacturing compressors and packaged solutions for the Oil & Gas and Biogas industries. We're seeking an experienced Plant Controller to lead all aspects of plant finance at our Sidney facility during a significant period of growth. With revenue expected to more than double, new product lines planned, and a proposed facility expansion, you'll help guide growth while strengthening the existing operation.

In this highly visible, hands-on role, you'll develop the finance team and partner directly with plant leadership, Operations, and Materials to strengthen financial discipline and improve manufacturing performance. You'll go beyond reporting results to understand what drives them-and turn those insights into action. Strong accounting and manufacturing finance expertise, attention to detail, and sound business judgment will help you identify risks, challenge assumptions, and uphold GAAP, internal controls, and reporting standards. You'll thrive here with intellectual curiosity, an ownership mindset, and the agility to learn quickly and navigate changing priorities. An experienced Finance Leader who previously held the role will provide hands-on transition guidance.

Help shape the financial direction of a growing manufacturing operation-and expand your leadership impact.

Responsibilities


Financial Leadership & Business Partnership:

• Lead, develop, and manage the Sidney finance team.
• Serve as the primary financial business partner to plant leadership, providing financial insight and recommendations to support operational and strategic decision-making.
• Partner cross-functionally with Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, Commercial, and other functions to drive business performance.
• Provide clear and actionable analysis of financial results, risks, and opportunities.
• Support and challenge the organization to achieve financial and operational commitments.

Accounting, Reporting & Controls:

• Lead the monthly financial close and reporting process, ensuring timely and accurate results.
• Oversee journal entries, account reconciliations, and balance sheet integrity.
• Ensure compliance with GAAP, SOX requirements, company policies, and internal controls.
• Lead and coordinate site activities related to internal and external audits.
• Maintain strong financial controls and proactively identify opportunities to strengthen processes and reduce risk.

Planning & Financial Analysis:

• Lead development of the facility's Annual Operating Plan (AOP), as well as monthly and quarterly forecasting processes.
• Analyze financial and operational performance against plan, forecast, and prior periods.
• Identify key drivers of performance, including manufacturing and plant variances, and partner with operational leaders to understand root causes and implement corrective actions.
• Provide financial modeling and analysis to support business decisions and continuous improvement initiatives.

Cost Accounting & Inventory:

• Provide leadership and oversight of plant cost accounting activities.
• Lead the annual standard cost process and ensure accurate product costing.
• Establish standard costs for new parts and review proposed cost changes for existing products.
• Monitor and analyze material, labor, overhead, purchase price, and other manufacturing variances.
• Lead quarterly excess and obsolete inventory reviews and work with cross-functional teams to proactively manage inventory exposure.

Capital & Asset Management:

• Provide financial oversight of capital expenditures, including business case analysis, spending controls, and project tracking.
• Oversee fixed asset accounting and ensure appropriate capitalization and asset controls.
• Partner with plant leadership to prioritize investments and evaluate financial returns.

Continuous Improvement:

• Identify opportunities to improve financial processes, reporting, controls, and business intelligence.
• Drive standardization, simplification, and automation where appropriate.
• Support ad-hoc financial analysis and business initiatives as needed.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance.
• 7+ years of progressive accounting and finance experience, including increasing responsibility for month-end close, financial reporting, U.S. GAAP compliance, and internal controls.
• 3+ years of accounting or finance experience in a plant or manufacturing environment, including direct partnership with Operations, Materials, Production, or Supply Chain.
• 3+ years of experience with budgeting, forecasting, financial planning, and variance analysis, supported by advanced Microsoft Excel skills, such as PivotTables, XLOOKUP/VLOOKUP, complex formulas, financial modeling, and analysis of large financial data sets.
• 1+ year of practical manufacturing cost-accounting experience, including working knowledge of standard costs and manufacturing, production, inventory, or purchase price variances.
• 1+ year of demonstrated leadership experience through direct supervision, people management, team leadership, or leadership of significant cross-functional initiatives.

Core Competencies

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
• Clear written and verbal communication
• Ability to communicate financial concepts to financial and non-financial audiences
• Cross-functional relationship building and influence
• Ability to manage competing priorities
• Learning agility and comfort with ambiguity
• Sound business judgment and professional courage
• Ability to challenge business decisions appropriately when they conflict with U.S. GAAP or internal controls

Preferences:

• Master's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Professional certification such as CPA or CMA.
• Experience with SAP.
• Experience with Hyperion (Forecasting sys) or similar financial consolidation and reporting systems.

Travel and Work Arrangements:

• This position is based onsite in Sidney, OH.

The pay range for this role, excluding incentive opportunities, is a base of $120,000 - $140,00 annually. The pay range takes into account a wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, skills; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and geographic location. Hired applicant will be eligible to receive (discretionary/nondiscretionary) annual bonuses and incentive compensation.

What We Offer


At Ingersoll Rand, we embrace a culture of personal ownership - taking responsibility for our company, our communities, and our environment, as well as our individual health and well-being. Our comprehensive benefits package is designed to empower you with the tools and support necessary to take charge of your health, ensuring that together, we can continue to make life better. Our range of benefits includes health care options like medical and prescription plans, dental and vision coverage, as well as wellness programs. Additionally, we provide life insurance, a robust 401(k) plan, paid time off, and even an employee stock grant, among other offerings. These benefits are our commitment to you, so you can be your best at work and beyond.


Ingersoll Rand Inc. (NYSE:IR), driven by an entrepreneurial spirit and ownership mindset, is dedicated to helping make life better for our employees, customers and communities. Customers lean on us for our technology-driven excellence in mission-critical flow creation and industrial solutions across 40+ respected brands where our products and services excel in the most complex and harsh conditions. Our employees develop customers for life through their daily commitment to expertise, productivity and efficiency. For more information, visit

What We Offer

At Ingersoll Rand, we embrace a culture of personal ownership - taking responsibility for our company, our communities, and our environment, as well as our individual health and well-being. Our comprehensive benefits package is designed to empower you with the tools and support necessary to take charge of your health, ensuring that together, we can continue to make life better. Our range of benefits includes health care options like medical and prescription plans, dental and vision coverage, as well as wellness programs. Additionally, we provide life insurance, a robust 401(k) plan, paid time off, and even an employee stock grant, among other offerings. These benefits are our commitment to you, so you can be your best at work and beyond.

Ingersoll Rand is committed to achieving workforce diversity reflective of our communities. We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

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