Plant Controller

2 months ago

Memphis, United States W.M. Barr & Company, Inc. Full time

Position Summary: This position will lead and manage the financial activities of our manufacturing by providing financial guidance, ensuring proper financial procedures and controls, leading budgeting and forecasting, and ensuring the accuracy and integrity of financial data. Manage the cost accounting and accounts payable functions including financial analysis of material, labor and overhead spending, determining product cost and profitability, monitoring accuracy of inventory and cost of goods sold. This position will partner with the Vice President of Operations to manage the budget function for Operations and assume a leadership role in continuous improvement functions by providing timely and accurate cost accounting, financial analysis, and reporting. Work is performed under the general supervision of the Vice President Finance with latitude for the exercise of independent judgment and decision-making in performing day-to-day responsibilities; manages the work of the finance team responsible for Operational support.


Key performance areas: Serves as financial business partner and liaison between operations leadership and finance, strong knowledge of cost accounting and general accounting principles, demonstrated leadership and people management skills, proven ability to perform in a highly visible, dynamic environment.


Hybrid Role:

  • Remote Monday & Friday
  • In Office Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday


Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Manages the financial planning and analysis of the Operations division including the capital budget, preparation of annual operations budgets, monthly forecasts, and reports that identify variances, describe and analyze the nature of the variances, recommend corrective action to be taken to improve financial performance.
  • Partners with manufacturing leaders and other departments to ensure the accurate costing of products; drives accountability for maintaining inventory accuracy.
  • Recommends and develops costing systems, processes and procedures; manages operations accounting staff in monitoring cost and related financial systems for identification of, and recommendations for, procedural and processing improvements required for effective operational support.
  • Reviews costing standards; monitors relevance of standards to actual environment; recommends periodic adjustments of standards.
  • Manages activities related to inventory control including physical inventories; develops and implements policies, procedures and processes for physical counts, reconciliation, and adjustments to inventory records.
  • Initiates and manages studies and analyses to determine cost drivers of business activities including raw material purchase price variances, manufacturing variances, loss variance.
  • Develops procedures to calculate, monitor, and update labor and overhead rates for process/product costing; develops management reports specifying and comparing factors affecting product costs and related profitability.
  • Manages a timely month end close process and accurate month end reporting. Responsible for ensuring the integrity of financial reporting.
  • Consolidates and reports key financial measurements monthly, quarterly, and year-to-date for benchmarking and managing performance.
  • Develops forecasting approach, and key metrics to develop an overall operational cost forecast in support of company forecasts.
  • Responsible for ensuring that all operations related internal controls meet corporate guidelines.
  • May perform other financial analysis in support of strategic initiatives as required by the Vice President Finance or Vice President of Operations.


Qualifications/Experience:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance and a minimum of ten years accounting and financial experience.
  • Experience in a manufacturing environment, three years managerial experience preferred; CPA/MBA a plus.



This job description reflects management’s assignment of essential functions; it was not meant to be all-inclusive of the tasks that may be assigned.

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