Senior Plant Controller
At a glance
Senior Accounting role at BBB. Chesterfield · full-time · no salary stated · we estimate $85,000–$127,488 across the United States.
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What you'll do
- Lead monthly, quarterly and annual closes for both plants, then present P&L results and variance analysis to leaders
- Maintain SOX controls, run plant audits and close findings with the BU Controller and corporate accounting partners
- Build standard costing at both sites, investigate manufacturing variances and oversee physical and cycle inventory counts
- Handle daily cash and bank reconciliations, journal entries, intercompany accounting and SAP month-end reporting
- Partner with both Plant Managers on budgets, forecasts and new finance standards, while reviewing capital requests
What you bring
- A bachelor's degree in accounting, finance or a related discipline
- At least ten years in progressively responsible finance or accounting work, including manufacturing or plant controllership
- Experience supporting finance across multiple sites and improving consistency and accountability between locations
- Knowledge of standard costing, manufacturing variances, inventory accounting, GAAP and SOX controls
- Advanced Excel skills and practical audit work, including evidence gathering and workpaper preparation
Who this fits
This senior role suits a hands-on finance leader who can manage transactional accounting while guiding plant-level finance practices. You will support the Chesterfield and Seattle plants, work from Chesterfield and travel between the sites about a quarter of the time. The role calls for leadership through teams, projects or influence, including without formal authority.
From the employer
Position Summary
The Senior Plant Controller is the senior finance leader for both the Chesterfield, MI and Seattle, WA plants, owning financial reporting, cost accounting, and internal controls across both sites. Based in Chesterfield with about 25% travel to Seattle, this person standardizes practices across the two locations and serves as the primary finance partner to both Plant Managers — while also directly handling day-to-day transactional accounting (cash/bank reconciliation, JE preparation, intercompany accounting).
What you'll do
Multi-site financial reporting & controls
- Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual close for both plants in accordance with GAAP and corporate policy, and present P&L and variance analysis to plant and corporate leadership.
- Maintain a strong internal controls environment at both sites, including SOX compliance; lead plant-level audits and partner with the BU Controller to deliver clean audits and drive findings to closure.
- Partner with corporate accounting and FP&A on consolidation, reporting packages, and budget/forecast cycles spanning both plants.
- Own daily cash application and bank reconciliation (credit card fees, check/receipt clearing, ACH/wire/FX postings); run and reconcile SAP month-end reports and support corporate tax with SAP-based research and entries.
- Prepare and reconcile intercompany transactions between SAP and Oracle-based entities, and partner with IT to automate manual reconciliations, performing the interim manual research/reclass entries in the meantime.
- Review and approve capital expenditure requests for both sites, ensuring appropriate ROI analysis and documentation.
Standard cost development & inventory management
- Build a standard costing framework from the ground up at both plants (material, labor, and overhead standards; annual roll process; transition off average costing) and upgrade KPIs to reflect it.
- Analyze manufacturing variances with local operations leadership to identify root causes and corrective actions; oversee physical and cycle inventory counts, and benchmark productivity, scrap, and yield across both sites.
- Create and upgrade auditable finance/accounting SOPs across both plants, and establish a disciplined monthly reconciliation cadence with documented review and sign-off.
Influence & site partnership
- Serve as the primary finance business partner to both Plant Managers, driving adoption of new standards through influence and leading the annual budgeting/forecast process.
- Travel approximately 25% of the time between Chesterfield and Seattle to maintain an on-site presence and partner directly with each plant’s leadership.
What you'll bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field required.
- 10+ years of progressive accounting/finance experience, including a track record in manufacturing/plant controllership, with demonstrated leadership managing teams, projects, or change without formal authority.
- Proven experience supporting multi-site finance operations, standardizing practices and driving accountability across locations.
- CPA or CMA strongly preferred.
- Strong knowledge of standard costing, manufacturing variance analysis, and inventory accounting.
- Hands-on audit experience — providing evidence to auditors, tracing to source documentation, and building workpapers to evidence standards.
- Solid understanding of GAAP and internal controls, including SOX compliance experience.
- Direct hands-on SAP experience strongly preferred (cash management, bank reconciliation, month-end reporting); Oracle familiarity a plus. Advanced Excel required.
- Comfort with hands-on transactional accounting — daily bank/cash reconciliation, JE preparation, and intercompany accounting — alongside strategic oversight.
- Willingness to travel approximately 25% of the time between Chesterfield, MI and Seattle, WA.
Nice-to-haves
- Lean/Six Sigma or continuous improvement experience.
- Experience integrating or standardizing finance practices across newly combined or acquired sites.
- Prior experience supporting M&A integration or plant startup/turnaround.
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