What are the responsibilities and job description for the Plant Controller position at AccruePartners?
PLANT CONTROLLER THE TEAM YOU WILL BE JOINING
- A leading U.S. manufacturer and distributor serving residential and commercial customers
- Largest, high-throughput site in Fort Mill, SC, partnering closely with Operations, Supply Chain, and Corporate Finance
- Culture that values accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement across safety, quality, delivery, and cost
- Finance team with strong executive sponsorship, this role reports to the Corporate Controller and is a key voice at the plant
- On-site in Fort Mill, South Carolina, primary finance leader embedded with plant operations
- Visibility with senior leadership and a direct line to impact plant performance and profitability
- Ownership of the plant P&L with latitude to build better processes, tools, and KPIs
- Stability of an established manufacturer with ongoing growth and modernization initiatives
- Lead full cycle cost accounting for the company’s largest site, ensuring accurate standards, inventory valuation, and margin integrity
- Own monthly close for the plant, deliver timely and accurate results, reconcile inventory, and produce actionable variance analysis
- Partner with Operations on standards, BOM and routing accuracy, overhead rates, absorption, and continuous improvement actions
- Build and maintain plant performance dashboards, KPIs, and daily management routines that drive cost, yield, and throughput
- Lead annual standard reset, budgeting, and rolling forecasts for COGS, conversion costs, and headcount
- Safeguard controls for the plant, cycle counts, physical inventories, and audit readiness, while improving processes end to end
- Provide business cases for capex and productivity projects, track benefits realization, and support S&OP decisions
- Manage standard costing, cost rolls, overhead rates, labor and machine routings, and production order variance analysis
- Reconcile inventory across raw, WIP, and finished goods, supervise cycle counts, lead physical counts, and root-cause discrepancies
- Close the month for the plant, prepare journal entries, accruals, reconciliations, and a clean, well-supported audit trail
- Analyze and communicate PPV, usage, yield, scrap, labor efficiency, and absorption, with clear drivers and corrective actions
- Partner with Supply Chain on material cost trends, supplier changes, and inventory optimization targets
- Build and automate reporting, including daily flash, weekly operational scorecards, and monthly executive packs
- Coach a small plant accounting team or cross-functional contributors, set priorities, and elevate the finance operating rhythm
- Ensure compliance with company policies and internal controls, recommend improvements, and standardize processes with Corporate
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance required, CPA or CMA preferred
- 7 to 10 plus years of progressive plant accounting experience in manufacturing or distribution, fencing, building materials, or discrete manufacturing a plus
- Deep command of full cycle cost accounting, standard costing, BOM and routing maintenance, and inventory control
- Proven month-end close leadership for a plant, with strong reconciliation discipline and audit readiness
- Advanced Excel skills, comfort with large data sets and error-proof models, experience with a major ERP, Power BI or similar is a plus
- Track record influencing operations leaders, converting analysis into actions that move cost, yield, and throughput
- Hands-on, detail-accurate, and urgency-driven, comfortable on the floor and in executive reviews
- Strong communication skills, able to simplify complexity for non-finance partners
