What are the responsibilities and job description for the Plant Controller position at SIMONA America?
About the Role
SIMONA America Industries is looking for an experienced Plant Controller to join our team in Archbald, PA.
This is a highly visible role for a finance professional who enjoys being close to the business and partnering directly with Operations. The Plant Controller will serve as a key financial partner to plant leadership, providing the analysis, insight, and financial guidance needed to improve manufacturing performance, profitability, inventory management, and operational decision-making.
Experience in a manufacturing environment is essential, and strong SAP/S/4HANA, product costing, and manufacturing cost controlling experience is highly preferred.
What You’ll Do
Partner with Operations
- Serve as a key financial business partner to plant and operational leadership.
- Work closely with Production, Supply Chain, Engineering, Quality, Sales, HR, and Corporate Finance.
- Translate financial and operational data into actionable business recommendations.
- Participate in operational reviews and performance meetings.
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, profitability, inventory, and working capital.
- Provide financial guidance and coaching to operational leaders.
Manufacturing & Cost Controlling
- Maintain and improve product costing methodologies.
- Review product cost structures, including material, labor, and overhead.
- Analyze material usage, purchase price, labor efficiency, overhead absorption, yield, scrap, and rework variances.
- Identify root causes behind manufacturing performance deviations and recommend corrective actions.
- Monitor cost center performance and analyze fixed and variable cost drivers.
- Partner with Operations on cost reduction and continuous improvement initiatives.
Planning, Forecasting & Financial Analysis
- Lead the plant’s annual budgeting process and periodic forecasting.
- Prepare sales, production, labor, overhead, inventory, and capital expenditure forecasts.
- Analyze actual performance against budget, forecast, prior year, and strategic targets.
- Identify financial and operational risks and opportunities.
- Develop financial models and scenario analyses to support business decisions.
- Support pricing, profitability, and business case analyses.
Financial Reporting & Performance Management
- Prepare and analyze monthly management reporting, including sales, volume, margin, manufacturing performance, working capital, and key operational KPIs.
- Support month-end close through review of production results, inventory movements, costing transactions, accruals, and variances.
- Develop dashboards and KPIs that provide greater visibility into plant performance.
- Communicate financial results and operational trends to plant and corporate leadership.
Inventory & Working Capital
- Monitor inventory levels, turns, aging, and working capital.
- Analyze excess, slow-moving, and obsolete inventory.
- Review inventory valuation and reserve requirements.
- Support physical inventory and cycle count programs.
- Investigate inventory variances and identify corrective actions.
- Partner with Operations and Supply Chain on inventory reduction initiatives.
Capital Investment & Strategic Support
- Prepare and review business cases for capital investments.
- Perform ROI, IRR, NPV, and payback analyses.
- Support capital expenditure approval processes.
- Track the financial results of approved projects.
- Support strategic and operational improvement initiatives through financial analysis.
Systems, Data & Continuous Improvement
- Understand end-to-end processes across manufacturing, supply chain, procurement, sales, and finance.
- Identify process inefficiencies, data issues, and opportunities for improvement.
- Help improve and automate financial reporting, planning, and controlling processes.
- Partner with Finance, IT, and Operations to improve data quality and reporting capabilities.
- Leverage ERP and business intelligence tools to increase transparency and support better decision-making.
What We’re Looking For
The ideal candidate will bring strong manufacturing finance experience and be comfortable working directly with plant leadership and Operations.
Key areas of experience include:
- Business partnering with Operations
- Manufacturing cost controlling and product costing
- Planning, forecasting, and financial analysis
- ERP, data, and end-to-end process understanding
- Analytical problem solving and continuous improvement
- Strong SAP experience highly preferred; SAP S/4HANA experience is a plus
- Strong understanding of manufacturing and supply chain processes
- Ability to translate complex financial and operational data into practical recommendations
- Strong communication and cross-functional partnership skills
- Ability to challenge the business constructively and influence decision-making
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills
Why Join SIMONA?
This is an opportunity to take on a key financial leadership role within a manufacturing operation where Finance is expected to be an active partner to the business.
You’ll work closely with both plant and corporate leadership and have the opportunity to directly influence operational performance, cost management, inventory, process improvement, and strategic decision-making.
Schedule: Monday–Friday, primarily during normal business hours. Additional hours may occasionally be required during month-end, quarter-end, year-end, budgeting, audits, and other key business periods.
Travel: Approximately 5–10% to support U.S. subsidiaries, training, or corporate meetings.
SIMONA America Industries is an Equal Opportunity Employer.