Assistant Plant Controller

Johnsonville Location: Countryside

As a member of this team, you'll partner with other areas of the business, providing financial analysis for decision-making purposes. We'll rely on you to report, plan and evaluate our financial results, as well as ensure our financial transactions and reports are timely, accurate and efficient. In short, you'll help drive our exceptional financial performance.

Position Overview

As the Assistant Plant Controller - Operations at our Sheboygan Falls campus, you'll have the opportunity to collaborate closely with our facility leadership teams who are all about member development, manufacturing excellence, and continuous improvement. We're looking for someone who can bring their product costing expertise and leadership skills to the table, helping to spot key financial opportunities and lead impactful improvement initiatives in a fast-paced manufacturing environment across our three campus plants.

Responsibilities

• Build relationships with all levels of members at the plants, including the core leadership teams, team leaders, and production members
• Live the Johnsonville Way by engaging all members involved to meet business goals; be a role model and coach to help them succeed
• Turn data into valuable insights; help explain the "what" (the facts), "why" (the drivers and trends), "so what" (ask thoughtful questions and use relationships to drive improvement), and "what's next" (next steps to sustain or improve performance and results)
• Help create simple, clear dashboards and turn numbers into a meaningful message; connect that message to themes people can easily relate to and understand
• Assist the Multi-Site Plant Controller in developing and sustaining a standard approach to reporting and other processes across all three campus plants, aligning with overall company processes
• Lead month-end close tasks for campus plant operations, partnering with leadership and team leads to understand and compile clear, concise month-end deliverables
• Assist and own various forecasting and annual budgeting processes for the campus plants using a consistent, streamlined approach
• Lead and monitor cost savings pipelines to ensure they meet expectations for current and future years
• Partner with the Multi-Site Plant Controller to assess new business opportunities and represent plant financial and operational impacts in decision-making discussions; provide insights on proposed capital projects (such as IRR, cost savings, and post-mortems) and productivity projects (focused on continuous improvement)
• Identify best practices and collaborate with the Multi-Site Plant Controller to roll them out across the network
• Support the development of procedures and controls to ensure accurate product costs and reliable inventory management
• Provide informal leadership and financial coaching across operations
• Other duties as assigned

Education

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance required

Experience

• Six (6) years of cost accounting and analytics experience, required
  • Prior experience in plant finance or controller-type role strongly preferred
  • Experience in a manufacturing, food or consumer packaged goods environment, strongly preferred
• CMA, CPA and / or MBA preferred
• Experience working with and/or creating meaningful operational reports and guiding operations members on how to understand and use financial data
• Demonstrated leadership experience required, including influencing cross-functional teams and driving financial accountability in operations

Skills

• Demonstrated experience in communicating and making financial information easy to understand across all levels of an organization
• Proficient in Intermediate Excel, Word, and PowerPoint); SAP preferred
• Skilled at analyzing data, spotting trends, and coming up with action plans or recommendations
• Attention to detail, with a genuine curiosity to dig into details as needed
• Analytical mindset to address cost variances and other opportunities
• Ability to make sound, independent decisions when working with incomplete data or changing priorities.

Other Requirements

• Travel - Minimal

Benefits and Compensation

Members have potential for a monthly bonus and 401k with a company match. Members also have access to terrific benefits including affordable medical, dental and vision coverage; flexible spending accounts; disability and life insurance; and fertility and adoption assistance. Johnsonville also offers competitive paid time off, including paid parental time off, as well as access to the 24/7 onsite fitness center, and onsite medical clinic! Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location.

Applicants must be eligible to work in the country where this job is located, without requiring sponsorship now or in the future.


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About our Company

Since 1945, our family-owned band of sausage-makers has invented better ways to make, eat and prepare crave-able sausage. Today, we are 4,000+ Members strong. We sell our famous sausage in all 50 United States and more than 40 countries. We have a culture built on the idea that if we make developing your talents our top priority, great business results will follow naturally. We call it The Johnsonville Way. It has been our secret sauce for decades, and we hope you get to experience it for yourself!

Johnsonville is an equal opportunity employer, including Vet/Disability.


We embrace the principles of Equal Opportunity Employment and do not discriminate on the basis of any protected characteristic, including protected veteran and disability status.

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The Johnsonville Way

Our culture, called the Johnsonville Way , guides the way we behave, operate and treat one another. We truly believe that here at Johnsonville, we have a moral responsibility to create and maintain an environment that requires each Member to fully develop their God-given talents and help others to do the same. We achieve this by living the Johnsonville Way .

Our owner is famous for saying that, "Other companies use their people to build a business, but at Johnsonville, we use the business to build our people." We are proud to offer endless opportunities for continued learning and growth here at Johnsonville.