Plant Controller jobs in Roanoke, VA

Radford, VA FULL_TIME

• Familiarity with Quickbooks, Concur, Sage 300;

• 5 years of similar professional experience in an accounting role.

• Help investigation in weekly/monthly dashboard of spending, highlighting opportunities for improvement.

• Review production variances (materials & labor) with management and help drive to root cause – in particular help collection of scrap data by area.

• Collate labor straight time and overtime daily and review with plant management.

• Ensure correct codifications of expenses are in line with company standards.

• Monitors spending on key categories to include maintenance, supplies, and consumables, and support company initiatives to reduce spending.

• As needed, capture relevant material content, scrap, crew size, throughout rates of work centers for use in updating standard costs.

• Review weekly KPI data with management; understand trends and help analyze root causes.

• Ensure new KPIs are correctly implemented in line with company standards.

• Determine cost estimates for key product lines, and develop, assess, and report actual-to-estimate reporting for management.

• Help with cash management of the company.

• Work with accounting firm to complete annual review of the financial statements.

• Help prepare forecasts and the annual budget for the Company.

• Support preparation of budget, forecasts, and monthly budget-to-actual reporting.

• Review with management and ensure comprehension of forecast, and root cause of variances.

Asset Safeguarding:

• Support inventory cycle counts inter-month and period-end physicals in-line with Company instructions, document results, and suggest improvements.

• Support working capital improvement plans.

• When required, participate in capital expenditure development, and post spend audit.

• Assist in training floor personnel on how to operate transactions in Shop Foor Data Collection System (AutoSimply), including the use of scanners, in accordance with standard operating procedures (SOPs).

Baseline Expectations Regarding Month-End Financial Close and Reporting

• Perform account reconciliation and analysis;

• Create and post Journal Entries including maintenance of recurring journal entries and allocations;

• Summarize current financial status by collecting information; and performing detailed analyses of balance sheet, profit and loss statement, and other reports;

• Prepare job costing and other special financial reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing account information and trends;

• Maintain accounting controls by preparing and recommending policies and procedures;

• Reconcile financial discrepancies by collecting and analyzing account information;

• Update the job budget to the accounting system;

• Protect operations by keeping financial information confidential;

• Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies;

• Perform special projects as required.

Basic Functions/Dimensions of Subordinates:

• Coordinates with Human Resources payroll activities including a detailed understanding of the hourly and salaried payrolls and accounting for related deductions and fringe benefits accruals.

• Coordinates with the Accounts Payable Supervisor and Purchasing Director activities.

• Cost accounting functions for manufacturing as it pertains to inventory, job costing, and ERP maintenance.