Plant Financial Controller Job in Cleveland, Ohio Us
Let us introduce you to The Schwan Food Company: Schwan’s, the company with the famous yellow delivery trucks. But Schwan’s is also a major supplier to retail food stores, restaurants and school systems. We’re one of the top 15 privately-held food processing companies in America.
We’re a multi-billion dollar company famous for consumer brands such as Freschetta, Red Baron and Simply Inspired-branded frozen pizzas.
We make frozen pizza, millions of them….at one of the largest plants of its kind in the nation. We’re located just minutes south of Cincinnati in Florence, Kentucky. Our Global Supply Chain facility is a three-time winner of the Alfred Schwan Award of Manufacturing Excellence, most recently in 2010. It’s the corporation’s highest facility honor.
Schwan’s Global Supply Chain is looking for an outstanding financial leader for the Kentucky facility. This position reports to the Sr. Director of Operations and interacts daily with our corporate headquarters in Minnesota.
Description:
- Provides leadership and direction to the local plant accounting team to ensure the financial accounting and reporting needs of the plant are met to enable the plant management team to meet their budgeted financial goals and objectives.
- Ensures the accuracy and integrity of the plants accounting systems and records.
- Enhances current plant accounting and performance reporting systems to identify variances to enable timely corrective action.
- Uses value analysis techniques to identify and make recommendations to plant management to improve performance and lower unit costs.
- Instills strong cost control/ reporting and planning discipline to assist senior plant management in controlling manufacturing costs while achieving the required product quality standards.
- Provides financial advice and assistance to the plant management team to ensure decision making is made on a sound financial and operational basis.
- Works with plant management structure to raise their financial awareness and acumen.
- Assists plant management team with short to long term capital planning including identifying and evaluating financial payback on all new capital expenditure proposals.
- Conduct post implementation capital project reviews to ensure projects achieve financial objectives.
- Provides accurate and timely operational performance reporting to meet the needs of the Marshall Operations Management Team including monthly and quarterly plant performance commentaries.
- Leads designing and developing formal financial and management accounting information reporting systems to establish strong financial controls.
- Works with the Marshall corporate finance/business unit integration personnel on a number of initiatives including; providing cost information for Stage Gate projects cost reduction business unit collaboration initiatives identifying cost/performance improvement opportunities and establishing and sharing plant accounting/controlling/reporting best practices opportunities.
- Establishes annual business planning process including preparation of the financial manufacturing business plan.
- Assists in the design and development of strong financial/business control processes to ensure accuracy and integrity of financial records minimization of business risk and proper stewardship of all plants assets covering but not limited to contracts inventory plant and equipment and capital versus revenue expenditure.
- Prepares weekly plant cost forecasts to assist and provide greater accuracy to the Marshall Finance weekly Flash process.
- Ensures strict compliance to all company policies procedures and controls.
- Key focus areas include materials cost management labor cost and utilization asset utilization overhead expenditure control and maintenance effectiveness.
- Responsible to conduct yourself and ensure your subordinates (if applicable) conduct themselves in a manner consistent with company mission values code of ethics policies and other standards of conduct.
Qualifications
Education: Bachelor degree or equivalent.
Years of Related Experience: Typically has a minimum of 5 to 8 years related experience.
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities: Intermediate proficiency in the use of a personal computer including Windows and the Microsoft Office Suite;
Numeric analytic techniques;
Proficiency in the use of integrated MRP accounting and reporting systems; advanced analytical skills tools (e.g. SAP BW).
Advance ability to detect trends.
Intermediate skills in the development of financial ratios and comparative analysis. A thorough understanding of general accounting principles and accepted standards.
The ability to meet project deadlines.
The ability to prioritize tasks.
The ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously.
The ability to effectively present financial data to a variety of audiences.
The ability to work effectively and cooperatively within teams.
Leadership attributes self motivated ability to work independently with minimal supervision and ability to make recommendations and influence targeted audience.
Ability to successfully leverage internal and external resources.
Effective communication skills.
Ability to maintain sensitive and confidential information.
Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing/Six Sigma a plus.
Preferred exposure to manufacturing accounting including standard costing and full variance analysis reporting.
CPA CMA or CIA Preferred.
Please go to http://www.schwansjobs.com/search-jobs.htm and enter job number 11000869 to apply for this position.