Automotive Plant Controller

About the role

US Farathane is seeking a Plant Controller at its Westland, MI facility. The Plant Controller is responsible for financial reporting and general accounting support, forecasting, plant budgets, incentive investigation and submission of required documents, capital budgeting and authorization reviews, product costing, reviews of product profitability, and preparing metrics for review at the plant level. This position is fully onsite at the Westland, MI manufacturing plant.

US Farathane has been a source of plastics manufacturing for the automotive industry for over 50 years. Through technical research and development, together with its Management Team and Associates, US Farathane has continued to grow each year. The company provides customers with a wide range of full-service support, from black-box design concepts to highly engineered composites, TPE's and TPO's, as well as specialized extrusion and compression technologies.

Responsibilities

• Prepare financial statements and financial reporting.
• Perform financial analysis and trend reporting.
• Perform month-end closing, including the preparation of journal entries and account reconciliations.
• Prepare budgets, forecasts, and analysis of actual versus budget/forecast for plant departments.
• Assure compliance with Company financial policies and procedures.
• Research incentives offered by state and local governments and prepare submissions.
• Perform capital budgeting, authorization reviews and financial payback calculations, and follow-up audits.
• Develop annual overhead rates for cost accounting and review variances.
• Provide plant metrics to the local management team and help guide performance for improvement.
• Review product profitability and present it to various levels of management.
• Perform other financial projects as required by the Director of Financial Planning & Analysis or local plant management.
• Complete the weekly Plant Status P/L and review it with the General Manager.
• Maintain the Top Open Commercial Issues list.
• Advise the General Manager on financial-related matters.
• Be actively involved in facility-related meetings and teams and drive improvement.
• Be involved in BOM management and testing accuracy.
• Prepare all other month-end reports/documentation.
• Participate in quarterly or annual physical inventory and serve as a steering committee member.
• Assist the General Manager with special projects as requested.
• Assist corporate accounting with other facilities issues/meetings.
• Sign off on all CI Projects at Month End and confirm value.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree in Accounting or Business from a four-year college or university is required.
• Three to five years of controlling or equivalent experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience with an Automotive Supplier is a plus.
• Proficient use of Microsoft Products.
• Excellent verbal, written, group presentation and interpersonal communication skills.
• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.
• Interested applicants must submit their resume for consideration using the company's applicant tracking system. Due to the high volume of applications received, only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.
• Unsolicited resumes from search firms or employment agencies, or similar, will not be paid a fee and become the property of US Farathane.
• The specific statements above are not intended to be all-inclusive.

Benefits

US Farathane offers a compensation and benefits package including:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401k with company match
• Paid holidays and vacation
• Job promotional opportunities and more