Plant Controller

As the Plant Controller
, you will be the #1 site financial leader at our growing manufacturing plant in Warsaw, Indiana, operating in a world class precision engineering environment within a global group. This exciting role is both strategic and hands‑on, providing close financial management supporting growth, profitability and cash management and deploying LEAN Finance practices. The role requires excellent business partnership with plant commercial and operational teams.

You’ll play a pivotal role in driving step‑change performance improvement, fully involved in Strategy Deployment while supporting continuous improvement with LEAN Daily Management, and helping leadership make informed business decisions.

• Prepare and present monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports to plant and corporate leadership (note the accounting factory / trial balance compilation is performed elsewhere in the group)
• Ensure compliance with internal controls, financial regulations, and GAAP
• Support audit readiness of US financial for group consolidation processes
• Maintain a robust control framework.

• Lead the plant’s budgeting, forecasting, and monthly performance reporting processes.
• Introduce Value Stream reporting and deploy Box Score thinking to drive performance improvement across value stream performance, capacity and operational KPIs
• Analyze business performance against Targets to Improve and explain key business drivers.

• Partner with commercial, operations, supply chain, and engineering to support data-driven decision-making.
• Serve as a proactive and trusted financial partner to plant leadership—translating financial insights into commercial and operational actions.
• Collaborate across functions to evaluate capital investments, support optimization of pricing decisions, drive spend reduction and initiatives, and support in conversion of productivity opportunities.
• Participate in cross‑functional planning and performance reviews to align financial goals with commercial and operational objectives.

• Maintain accurate standard costs for inventory measurement purposes (only) and support regular cost updates (labor, machine rates, overhead).
• Support transition to Target Costing methodologies for customer quotes
• Validate and improve BOM and routing accuracy.
• Analyze value stream profitability and product family material marginality to support commercial strategies.

• Ensure inventory completeness, existence and accuracy and manage regular cycle counts and reconciliations
• Track and analyze production and non-production related spending variances and partner with production teams to resolve root causes of sub‑optimal business processes.
• Support Cap Ex tracking and ROI analysis, including LEAN-based investment reviews.

• Apply LEAN principles to finance processes, including waste reduction, standardization, and process simplification.
• Support 80/20 business simplification, value stream mapping, and other LEAN tools to improve decision speed and clarity.
• Contribute to spend control and productivity initiatives through data-driven insight and financial modelling to gain insight to enable foresight.

• Manage all levers of cash flow and forecasting at the plant level; support working capital optimization.
• Monitor receivables and partner with commercial teams on credit risk and collections.

• Maintain strong internal controls and ensure data integrity across financial systems.
• Support system transitions, enhancements, and automation projects (ERP experience preferred, ideally MS Dynamics).
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance (required); CPA or MBA preferred.
• 5+ years of progressive experience in accounting and finance, with at least 2 years in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong foundation in cost accounting, operational finance, and business performance analysis.
• Demonstrated understanding and experience with LEAN or continuous improvement methodologies (practical involvement preferred over…