Plant Controller

Overview

The Plant Controller will support manufacturing and supply chain operations at the Lubbock Plant and other Tropicale locations as needed. The successful candidate should have a strong background in a consumer products manufacturing and distribution environment. Additionally, you will work cross functionally within the Tropicale Finance team to drive improvements throughout the department, supporting growth and standard processes.

The Plant Controller will work with all Lubbock functional team members to ensure optimal short-term and long-term decision making. The successful candidate will provide support / data to support the elimination of waste and improvement of end-to-end process stability while reducing process variation.

This position supports the development of standard cost, variance reporting, process improvement, and standard operating procedures to support changing global business demands while maintaining high quality standards and appropriate internal control safeguards for Tropicale, a growing, manufacturing company. The ideal candidate should have manufacturing experience, including experience utilizing an ERP system.

The Plant Controller will help develop the inventory management processes and will build capacity and capabilities for Tropicale by providing timely, relevant, and sound cost and financial information. To be successful in this role, this individual must continuously seek to maximize resources and provide guidance on data analytics and plant metrics supporting continuous improvement and best practice efforts. Strong cost accounting experience necessary.

• Work closely with the Tropicale Finance, Operations and Supply Chain team to improve warehouse and plant performance and achievement of performance objectives.
• Plans, executes, and reconciles physical inventories.
• Prepares analysis of adjustments inventory activity and transaction reports
• Partners with Procurement/Manufacturing to minimize costs, improve quality and drive margin improvement.
• Direct inventory control and management and perform analysis of variance identified during inventory cycle counts and annual physical inventory to maintain inventory costs to budgeted levels.
• Supports the management of plant or warehouse inventory metrics (e.g., breakage, yields, product obsolescence, excess, and obsolete calculations) using historical data, current information, and metrics targets to minimize costs. Standardizes across entities.
• Performs other projects related to Good Manufacturing Practices, shipping, receiving, inventory management. Leads inventory valuation analysis.
• Works closely with the supply chain teams in the implementation of policies and procedures to improve the accuracy of financial and inventory reporting.
• Assist with the monthly financial close process and ensure the accuracy of system generated transactions and manual entries.
• Prepare journal entries and account reconciliations to assist in the month-end closing process.
• Compile, analyze and communicate monthly scrap and shrinkage results and identify areas for scrap reduction and margin enhancement.
• Work closely with Lubbock team to drive plant performance and achievement of performance objectives.
• Analyze financial and statistical reports that reflect plant financial position and KPI’s, perform cost and operating variance analyses to identify root causes in variances and partner with other managers to identify areas for improvement.
• Lead efforts to create and facilitate more effective financial/cost consciousness in everyday business activities and enhance plants margin profiles. Review and consolidate plant level reporting into channels and regional reporting deliverables.
• Works closely with the supply chain teams in the implementation of policies and procedures to improve the accuracy of financial reporting.
• Perform periodic walkthroughs of the plant with the operations team to discuss production and costing issues. Review labor reporting and cost, material costs, manufacturing overhead, distribution cost, and inventory levels Ensure bill of material and costing accurately reflect production operations.
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