Assistant Controller

Job Description

Job Description

The purpose of this position is to support the Controller as a business partner to the Hampton IGT leadership team. This person will help review and oversee the accounting and reporting of plant metrics and other financial data, assist in the formulation of internal controls and policies to comply with legislation and Howmet Aerospace policies and procedures, and assist in the preparation of financial statements in compliance with regulatory and accounting guidelines under the supervision of the Plant Controller. Responsibilities include, but not limited to :

• Identify key levers to drive business improvement and providing leadership to ensure implementation of business improvement opportunities
• Determine, in conjunction with the lead team, targeted goals for performance measures of quality, productivity, delivery, inventory optimization and profitability
• Assist in daily reporting management, monthly forecasting, and annual planning
• Analyze data for decision making and tracking performance progress
• Coordinate the capital appropriation process and post-project reviews
• Manage journal entries, invoicing, and reconciliation of accounts for monthly close
• Help to ensure completion of Howmet Aerospace’s Sarbanes-Oxley requirements for internal controls
• Comply with Howmet Aerospace and business unit financial reporting requirements
• DVP (Direct-Variable-Profit) Model development and maintenance
• Inventory control and reduction
• With the controller, lead the coordination of physical counts procedures
• Prepare for and assist with audits
• Job Roles
• Enterprise minded understands the needs of the business and how decisions affect P&L, balance sheet and future capabilities, influences capex based on broad business case
• Responsive expertise prepared with information to help guide decision making both upon request and future planning based
• Compliance organized and aware of legal and local ramifications to decisions and practices; proactively prepared for audits
• Data-oriented anticipates and solves problems from a data-informed perspective; forecasts accurately and tracks closely; intervenes in ways that influence numbers
• Involved and curious spends time on the shop floor to understand business in greater detail; seeks to make improvements and strengthen partnerships through relationship and comprehension; understands operational consequences of decisions
• Analysis reviews decisions and data ex post facto to glean increased understanding; incorporates learning into future decision-making
• Accountability compares business case to actual performance and collaborates with other leaders to ensure success of investments
• Interpretation and translation able to tell a story with the data; brings life to the numbers through observation and familiarity with the business
• Prioritization understands market and organizational conditions and prioritizes efforts accordingly; manages tension between revenue and costs, etc.
• Communication proactively provides information about data, forecasting and financials to enable best possible decision-making for individual leaders and the organization; seeks information from others and disseminates accordingly as a conduit or hub
• Coach formally and informally develops others and contributes to talent factory strategy

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications :

Preferred Qualifications