Plant Controller

Plant Controller for a Shining Star B2B Manufacturer

Los Angeles, CA | Onsite

Compensation and Benefits

The compensation package includes a salary of $150,000-$165,000 and a comprehensive benefits program, including PPO/HMO plans and matching 401K

The Company

This award-winning manufacturer serves commercial customers around the world and combines a solid balance sheet, strong leadership, and a genuine commitment to quality, innovation, and sustainable manufacturing.

The culture is collaborative and family oriented. Leaders are visible and approachable, departments collaborate with one another, and employees take real pride in the company and its products in a company where internal advancement is actively encouraged.

The Opportunity

The Plant Controller will serve as a proactive business partner to Operations and Finance while leading a significant enhancement of cost accounting, fixed-asset reporting, and manufacturing analysis. The role will work closely with Manufacturing, Product Development, Logistics, Planning, and corporate Finance to improve visibility into product costs, labor, materials, margins, inventory, and capital investment.

This leader will inherit Senior Cost Accountants who will benefit from an engaged manager, mentor, and technical resource. The opportunity is well suited to someone who enjoys developing people, modernizing processes, and translating detailed plant data into actionable business insight.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and supervise the cost accounting function for a growing, global manufacturing business.

• Create, roll, and maintain material, labor, and overhead standards, including absorption calculations and detailed variance analysis.

• Strengthen product-cost, contribution-margin, labor, material, and manufacturing-performance reporting, including the evolution of reporting under IFRS.

• Provide meaningful insight to control manufacturing, material, and labor costs, and conduct performance reviews with site leadership.

• Determine pricing for custom products and partner with leadership to maintain standard-product pricing that supports agreed profit targets.

• Prepare balance-sheet reconciliations and analysis of direct-cost, inventory, fixed-asset, and other manufacturing-related accounts.

• Oversee cycle-count and physical-inventory processes, including inventory held at supplier locations, and ensure related controls operate effectively.

• Track, manage, and report on capital expenditure projects and fixed assets.

• Support budgeting, forecasting, month-end close, monthly results commentary, financial analysis, and ad hoc reporting.

• Review excess and obsolete inventory and partner with Operations on corrective actions and process improvements.

• Serve as the primary contact for external-audit inquiries involving manufacturing costs, inventory, fixed assets, and related accounts.

• Lead special projects for the CFO and global corporate Finance team while supporting departments and Finance colleagues across the organization.

• Mentor a team of 2, establishing clear expectations, strong processes, and disciplined execution.

The Ideal Leader

The successful candidate will be a hands-on manufacturing finance professional who can move comfortably between on-the-floor, plant-level detail and broader business partnership. This individual will bring the technical strength to overhaul processes and reporting, the systems aptitude to work across legacy and modern platforms, and the leadership presence to develop a team and influence cross-functional partners.

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related discipline.

• At least eight years of accounting or financial-analysis experience in a manufacturing environment.

• Deep knowledge of standard costing, product costing, manufacturing variances, inventory controls, cycle counts, and fixed assets.

• Experience with budgeting, forecasting, FP&A, capex analysis, and operational decision support.

• Advanced Excel expertise, strong data-mining skills, and confidence working with ERP and reporting systems.

• Experience supervising, mentoring, or developing accounting professionals.

• Strong communication, organization, problem-solving, and time-management skills, with the ability to work autonomously and meet deadlines.

• Working knowledge of U.S. GAAP; exposure to IFRS and full P&L responsibility is preferred.

• Experience with AS/400, NetSuite, or another cloud-based ERP system is helpful.