Plant Controller, Aerospace

As Plant Controller, Aerospace, you will be part of the Operations Accounting team under the Global Business Finance Support (GBFS) organization. You will support the Sylmar Aerospace plant and will be a critical member of the plant leadership team, contributing to and leading performance improvement plans at the facility. Through detailed and insightful analytics, you will help to identify areas of focus for productivity and cost improvement and will work cross functionally to ensure alignment, engagement and progress toward clearly defined project goals and deliverables.

You will report to the Operations Accounting Manager, Aerospace, who is located at the company headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. You will be onsite four days a week at the Sylmar, CA manufacturing plant.

Key Responsibilities

BUSINESS ANALYSIS AND DECISION SUPPORT (Local Partner)

* Participate in plant meetings to provide insight on results, collect information and challenge performance.

*Support and/ or lead plant initiatives to control costs of production.

* Focus on and drive improvement in productivity through analytics and cross functional projects including scrap, productivity, capacity use and addressing bottle necks.

* Push relevant information and analytics to drive local decision-making and a bias for action.

* Support the generation, analysis and explain the drivers for local and business unit KPIs.

* Work with Operations Accounting to provide variance analysis and full understanding of plant level results.

PLANNING AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT

*Partner with the Operations Supervisor and Analyst in the plant wide budget process coordinating all departments and embedding productivity and cost savings initiatives and targets.

*Partner with the Operations Supervisor and Analyst in developing short- and long-term reliable estimates of the level of expense to be incurred by the plant related to expected volumes.

* Complete month end closing activities such as calculation or approval of journal entries, review of account balances and explanation and presentation of results to business unit finance.

PLANT INVESTMENT

*Work with the plant leadership team to develop and execute a strategic roadmap for capital spending; ensure most critical projects are completed on time, on budget and are embedded in plans.

*Conduct post-completion analysis of critical investments (capital or otherwise) to ensure key deliverables - both financial and operational - are met.

INVENTORY CONTROL AND PRODUCT COSTING

* Work with demand and supply teams to ensure visibility and optimize inventory health in raw materials, WIP, and finished goods

*Support Operations Accounting and Plant Operations team as the on-site liaison to optimize inventory

* Ensure inventory accuracy and drive improvement around excess and obsolete inventory and scrap.

* Work with the Operations Supervisor and Analyst to ensure that product costing reflects plant operations at a product level.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or related field with 6 or more years of experience.
• Prior cost accounting or manufacturing financial support experience required.
• Strong communication and leadership skills.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Travel 2-3 times per year to the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania location.

Benefits: health/dental/vision/life insurance, 401K, PTO and more! #LI-Onsite

The base salary range for this position is $90,000- $100,000.

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