Controller

Role overview

Strategic finance and cost accounting

• Advise the Plant Manager and Plant Leadership Team and contribute to strategic and operational decisions.
• Own plant cost accounting and standard costing across materials, finished goods, labor, and overhead.
• Analyze material usage, production variances, yields, labor utilization, and cost-reduction opportunities.
• Maintain bills of material, routings, recipes, and costing structures; ensure accurate product costing and margin reporting.
• Partner with Operations to implement manufacturing cost improvements.

FP&A and financial close

• Lead annual budgets, strategic plans, latest estimates, scenario analyses, and financial models.
• Monitor performance against budget, forecast, and prior-year results; lead monthly reviews with plant and corporate leadership.
• Lead plant financial close, ensure accurate results, prepare management reports and variance analysis, and reconcile production, inventory, and financial results.
• Prepare month-end accruals and coordinate audit support and external reporting.
• Ensure compliance with IFRS, corporate accounting policies, and internal controls.

Inventory and working capital

• Work with Supply Chain on inventory valuation and accounting and ensure transactions are recorded and reconciled.
• Oversee cycle counts, inventory adjustments and write-offs, and analysis of slow-moving and excess inventory.
• Partner with Supply Chain and Operations to improve inventory turns and working capital, maintaining controls over raw materials and finished premix.

Capital projects and expansion

• Provide financial leadership for capital projects and plant investments; develop business cases and ROI analyses.
• Monitor capital spending and forecast project costs; support purchase order and invoice approval processes.
• Ensure fixed assets are capitalized properly and support construction-in-progress accounting.
• Support facility expansion, commissioning, startup, and operational readiness.
• Support ERP implementation and process design and develop financial processes and governance for a growing manufacturing operation.

Reporting and analytics

• Develop financial and operational dashboards and KPI reporting for plant leaders and headquarters.
• Use SAP, Power Query, SAP BI Excel, and reporting tools to provide actionable insights.
• Drive reporting automation and data accuracy and present financial performance and trends to senior leadership.

Candidate profile

• Strong manufacturing finance expertise and deep knowledge of standard costing and inventory accounting are required.
• The role calls for an autonomous, curious, self-driven, and proactive approach.