Controller, Kansas City Assembly Plant

Finance Lead

In this position, you will be the finance lead at the Kansas City Assembly Plant, home to the Transit and F-150 trucks. You will oversee all aspects of the plant finance operation, including budgeting, forecasting, and maintaining a robust internal control environment. You will be, in effect, the plant CFO.

Responsibilities

What you'll do...

• Finance lead for controlling assembly plant labor and overhead budget, and hourly and salary headcount
• Finance representative on plant Operating Committee (OCM)
• Prepare and report plant operating cost performance to OCM on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis
• Responsible for the plant's month-end close and monthly forecast submission
• Ensure robust and accurate financial analyses to support manufacturing-related decisions
• Develop and track the plant's efficiency roadmap
• Drive team to achieve competitive costs in all areas of the business
• Act as a business advisor to the plant manager and Operating Committee
• Responsible for the plant's internal control processes and maintaining a robust control environment
• Lead development of the plant's manpower planning and monthly submissions
• Tracking and reporting of launch costs
• Lead assessment to align operating pattern strategies with production program and related impact on forecast
• Review and approve purchase orders, credit card purchases, and check requests
• Review and approve all plant-generated non-production projects
• Lead maintenance planning meetings (weekends/holidays / down weeks/shutdown)
• Support recovery of supplier-related quality and delivery cost penalties

Qualifications

You'll have...

• Bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field
• 10 years of Controller experience
• Strong interpersonal skills and an ability to work well with operations partners (both Ford and UAW)
• Leadership guidance and direction with an emphasis on adherence to corporate policies
• Strong business acumen voice of finance at the plant; ability to influence operating partners/decisions
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to quickly determine the merits of business opportunities
• Leadership capability to develop the controller's office personnel

Even better, you may have...

• Master of Business Administration (MBA) or equivalent advanced degree.
• 10 years of Controller experience in a Manufacturer
• Previous manufacturing finance experience

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builderor all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

This position is leadership level 5 and ranges from $138,240-261,720.

Final determination of salary grade will be based on the candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility, and competitive market value.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call View phone number on click.appcast.io.

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Job Info

• Job Identification 61006
• Job Category Finance
• Posting Date 04/08/2026, 09:36 PM
• Degree Level Bachelor's Degree or equivalent
• Job Schedule Full time
• Locations 8121 E US Highway 69, Claycomo, MO, 64119, US (On-site)
• Preferred Degree Master of Business Administration

8121 E US Highway 69, Claycomo, MO, 64119, US