- Partner with plant controllers across multiple manufacturing locations to support accounting deliverables, reviews, and follow-up
- Serve as a key resource and subject-matter expert for manufacturing accounting and standard costing
- Review accounting activity across plant locations to help ensure accuracy, consistency, and appropriate accounting treatment
- Support month-end accounting activities and help identify and resolve issues across manufacturing locations
- Partner with the Corporate Controller to strengthen accounting processes, procedures, and controls
- Work directly with plant controllers to identify gaps, improve processes, and drive timely resolution of accounting matters
- Support consistent application of accounting practices across the manufacturing organization
- Build strong working relationships with accounting, finance, and operational stakeholders
- Help preserve and transfer critical manufacturing accounting knowledge across the organization
- Support ERP and process improvement initiatives
- Travel regularly to manufacturing locations to build relationships, understand site-specific processes, and provide hands-on accounting support
Qualifications
- Progressive accounting experience, ideally within a manufacturing environment
- Strong knowledge of manufacturing accounting and standard costing
- Experience working directly with plant accounting teams, plant controllers, and/or operations leadership
- Experience supporting multiple manufacturing locations or business units preferred
- Strong understanding of inventory, cost accounting, month-end close, reconciliations, and related manufacturing accounting processes
- ERP experience required; Oracle manufacturing experience strongly preferred
- Experience with ERP implementations, upgrades, or other finance transformation initiatives is a plus
- CPA preferred, but not required
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to identify accounting issues and drive follow-up across multiple stakeholders
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills
- Comfortable working in a collaborative environment where influence is important, even without direct reporting authority
Willingness to travel approximately 50%
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