Plant Controller – Costing Manager Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Plant Controller – Costing Manager to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and implement systems as required to collect, manage, and analyze data related to resource consumption and allocation;
- Current developments and alternatives relating to costing and financial analysis;
- Coordinate plant cost allocation systems that support financial measurement and reporting by channel, including Contribution Margin;
- Perform ad hoc cost and economic analyses as needed by Group and operating unit functions;
- Lead in the local awareness, development, implementation, and utilization of Activity Accounting;
- Help institutionalize the concepts of costing and financial analysis by providing training to all levels of plant management and staff;
- Support plant cost reduction initiatives with relevant analysis as well as tracking tools to highlight progress towards stated objectives;
- Key-point of contact for the costing-module implementation of upcoming ERP (SAP);
- Plant cost development and reporting practices and opportunities;
- Corporate strategies and positions as they relate to allocation and reporting of resources;
- Assist plant management in implementing financial and performance measurement systems in line with local needs and corporate policies;
- Assist in the development and implementation of corporate procedures affecting plant financial operations;
- Develop plant cost information to support product and customer rationalization.
Requirements:
- Strong desire for discovery, mentoring, and leadership;
- Experience of having a team of direct reports;
- Project a positive attitude to others, and resolve conflicts within appropriate channels;
- Ability to champion multi-functional teams to successful issue resolution;
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting;
- Exceptional analytical skills and proven ability to apply them in complex, multidisciplinary problem-solving situations;
- Fluently bilingual French and English;
- Experience in business process analysis and/or operations research a plus;
- Excellent Communication skills;
- Self-motivated to do best and improve. A quick study;
- Ability to translate complex applications issues into manageable solutions;
- Record of effective self-direction;
- Experience in SAP, CPI, TQM, logistics, and financial systems preferred, but not mandatory.