Highlights
The Plant Controller will serve as a strategic financial partner to plant leadership, providing analysis and insights that improve manufacturing performance, control costs, and support operational decision-making. The role offers broad exposure to operations, cost accounting, inventory management, supply chain, capital investments, budgeting, forecasting, and continuous improvement.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Eden, NC |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Company Size | 50 to 99 employees |
| Year Founded | 1979 |
| Website | http://www.theresource.org/ |
Description
Plant Controller
Location: Eden, NC
Employment Type: Full-Time | Exempt
Department: Finance
Our Client is seeking an experienced Plant Controller to lead financial operations for a manufacturing facility in Eden, NC. This role oversees financial reporting, cost accounting, budgeting, forecasting, inventory valuation, internal controls, and U.S. GAAP compliance.
The Plant Controller will serve as a strategic financial partner to plant leadership, providing analysis and insights that improve manufacturing performance, control costs, and support operational decision-making.
Key Responsibilities
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced manufacturing finance professional to become a key business partner to plant leadership. The role offers broad exposure to operations, cost accounting, inventory management, supply chain, capital investments, budgeting, forecasting, and continuous improvement.
Apply Now
Ready to take the next step in your manufacturing finance career?
Email your resume to Sharon Deichmann at sdeichmann@theresource.com.
Subject Line: Plant Controller Eden, NC
Location: Eden, NC
Employment Type: Full-Time | Exempt
Department: Finance
Our Client is seeking an experienced Plant Controller to lead financial operations for a manufacturing facility in Eden, NC. This role oversees financial reporting, cost accounting, budgeting, forecasting, inventory valuation, internal controls, and U.S. GAAP compliance.
The Plant Controller will serve as a strategic financial partner to plant leadership, providing analysis and insights that improve manufacturing performance, control costs, and support operational decision-making.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead monthly and year-end financial close and plant financial reporting.
- Manage manufacturing cost accounting, including standard costs and labor, material, overhead, and production variances.
- Analyze plant financial performance and recommend corrective actions.
- Lead annual budgeting and monthly/quarterly forecasting.
- Oversee inventory valuation, reconciliations, cycle counts, physical inventories, and reserves.
- Monitor manufacturing costs and identify cost-reduction opportunities.
- Ensure compliance with U.S. GAAP, accounting policies, and internal controls.
- Support internal and external financial audits.
- Provide financial analysis for production planning, staffing, capital expenditures, and operational initiatives.
- Partner with Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, Finance, and plant leadership.
- Analyze manufacturing KPIs and help drive continuous improvement.
- Mentor and supervise plant accounting personnel when applicable.
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
- 58 years of progressive accounting or finance experience.
- At least 3 years of manufacturing finance experience.
- Strong experience with cost accounting and inventory management.
- Knowledge of budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, standard costing, and manufacturing variances.
- Thorough knowledge of U.S. GAAP and internal controls.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
- Experience with ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, or JD Edwards.
- Strong analytical, leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Previous Plant Controller or manufacturing finance leadership experience.
- CPA, CMA, or MBA preferred.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced manufacturing finance professional to become a key business partner to plant leadership. The role offers broad exposure to operations, cost accounting, inventory management, supply chain, capital investments, budgeting, forecasting, and continuous improvement.
Apply Now
Ready to take the next step in your manufacturing finance career?
Email your resume to Sharon Deichmann at sdeichmann@theresource.com.
Subject Line: Plant Controller Eden, NC
About Company
The Resource is a full-service staffing, professional recruiting and consulting firm based in North Carolina. Privately owned and operated for over 30 years, people are at the heart of our organization, and we take a hands-on approach to each client and candidate relationship.
At The Resource, we’re passionate about assisting candidates in finding the next step in their career path, and ensuring it’s a role in a company where they will enjoy growing personally and professionally long-term. Utilizing The Core Assessment in the screening process, we’re able to understand a person’s innate unchanging nature and help individual’s learn about themselves. Our professional recruiters then utilize the candidate’s skill set and The Core results to match them to available positions in organizations where they will thrive. Further, we coach candidates on how to best market themselves for a given job.