Plant Controller

Addison Group has partnered with a manufacturing organization looking to add a Plant Accountant. The position will be an on-site FP&A leader who serves as the primary finance partner to plant leadership. This will support the Plant Director with financial insight, forecasting, and operational performance management. This role owns the plant-level planning rhythm, translates operational drivers into financial outcomes, and drives visibility to risks and opportunities across cost, margin, inventory performance, and capital.

Responsibilities

• Own the plant forecasting and budgeting cadence: build and maintain driver-based forecasts, lead annual budget development at the plant level, and surface forward-looking implications.
• Strengthen plant costing mechanics and margin visibility: explicitly monitor and explain overhead allocation/absorption behavior, labor efficiency, scrap/rework impacts, yield/throughput drivers, and resulting margin performance; translate variances into actions.
• Partner with Cost Accounting (process owner) to support the standard cost-setting cycle: provide operational/driver inputs, challenge and validate assumptions, identify when standards/routings no longer reflect reality, and ensure the management view of variances is explainable and decision-useful.
• Support plant inventory performance and working-capital drivers: monitor inventory accuracy/health KPIs, track drivers impacting inventory and COGS, and coordinate with Accounting/Cost Accounting on reconciliations and close alignment.
• Partner cross-functionally with Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, and Production to understand cost drivers and evaluate improvement opportunities; participate in operating rhythms (daily/weekly huddles, production reviews) as needed to support decision-making.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or related field
• 7 years' of professional accounting experience
• Manufacturing industry experience
• Leadership experience required