Business Unit Controller

Job Description

What You'll Do

• Proactively identify activities that will create results that do not meet expectation and then developing and communicating actions that will prevent unfavorable outcomes.
• Collaborate with the General Manager and manufacturing leads to create budgets and forecasts for plant operations (P&L, CAPEX, and working capital) and to ensure daily activities are aligned to meet the results that this position has worked to develop.
• Serve as a business change agent, providing expertise on the financial health of the organization, while understanding the business process beyond financial accounting to provide suggestions for improvement when possible.
• Develop and enhance daily monitoring and monthly accounting tools to proactively provide usable information to the GM and manufacturing managers. Use and develop the created information to work closely with site leadership in percentage of and cost to completion, production planning, material cost, inventory management and production costing to proactively identify cost drivers and resolve cost over runs before they become larger issues.
• Create tools to analyze weekly results to plan for both overhead spending and production order performance. Proactively provide in-depth analysis of product cost standards and actual results discussing reasons for results and methods to improve performance.
• Proactively work with site leader and manufacturing manager to develop capital expenditure proposals yielding demonstrative financial improvements. Measure financial results against developed projections and provide tangible improvement proposals to ensure achievement of developed targets.
• Full responsibility for preparing accurate, detailed financial budgets and forecasts for P&L, CAPEX, and Net Working Capital components.
• In conjunction with the Standex Information Technology group, coordinate the companies IT activities to improve timeliness and accuracy of revenue recognition processes. Implement new applications and activities on the company’s integrated Epicor ERP system.
• Ensure that proper accounting and financial controls are in place and in compliance with company policies, GAAP practice and regulatory requirements especially around revenue recognition and inventory costing.

What You'll Bring