Venteon is currently seeking an experienced Controller or FP&A Manager to fill a Business Unit Controller opening with a multi-national manufacturing company based in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Requirements of the Business Unit Controller
- Bachelor s degree in Accounting or Finance
- 7+ years of relevant experience
- Manufacturing or Plant level Finance & Accounting experience is required
- Direct and applicable FP&A, cost accounting or commercial finance experience is required
CMA or CPA is preferred
- Experience with SAP or similar ERP
- Ability to travel up to 15%
Benefits of the Business Unit Controller
- Excellent salary + an annual bonus
- Very competitive benefits and paid time-off program
- Hybrid working arrangements
- Exposure to executive level management
- Excellent family-like working culture
Responsibilities of the Business Unit Controller
- Provide guidance to Business Team Directors and their teams through active participation, acting as the business interface with other financial disciplines and actively participating in the development of business operating strategies.
- Deliver timely and accurate operational analyses as required for Regional Division or Corporate management. Provide analysis and report on key variances to targets, forecast and prior year.
- Provide period analysis of product and customer profitability, including support for pricing decisions and contract profitability evaluation. Develop pricing formulas for use in customer contracts and support approval process, up to and including to the Executive Board.
- Provide financial evaluations of capital expenditures, ensuring analyses and approval documents are prepared in accordance with regional and corporate standards. Provide an independent view of merits of individual projects from a broader strategic perspective.
- Drive continuous improvement efforts within the organization by initiating and/or participating in projects that reduce costs or improve efficiency.
- Support planning process (includes cost center planning within the legal entity) for three BT Directors, Divisional Vice President, and all Production cost center owners thru oversight of process and management of timeline to ensure alignment with regional and global timelines
- Other responsibilities: maintenance and routine updates of index-customer price formulas, tracking raw material costs based on market index impacts on existing contracts and providing input to Accounting to maintain proper accruals, analysis and maintenance of Division Freight tables in SAP.
- The Controller position is also expected to spend 25% to 50% of their time supporting broader company division topics, as defined by the Senior Director of Corporate Controlling. Topics could include plant support for other sites as well as general ad-hoc support for the region
If you are a high performer and would like to work for an equally high performing company and you think the above opportunity is appropriate for you, we invite you to apply to this job and email your resume to lmoyer@venteon.com
We treat all resumes with strict confidentiality. We will always contact you first before submitting your resume to our client(s) for review. If you do not receive correspondence, you are not fit for this position.
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