Plant Controller

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Plant Controller

Summary

Drive financial excellence in production and operations through strategic planning, analysis, and reporting. This role will significantly impact the company’s profitability and efficiency by developing and executing financial strategies, optimizing investor returns, and ensuring transparent and accurate financial operations. You will play a crucial role in enhancing financial performance at the Merced, CA plant, guiding decision-making processes, and supporting operational improvements through insightful financial management and robust internal controls.

Location: Merced, CA

Compensation: 120-145K plus performance bonus

Key Responsibilities

• Financial Planning: Drive medium and long-term financial performance by managing budget planning and defining goals to optimize investor returns. Prepare quarterly forecasts to align financial expectations with operational performance, and collaborate on planning and reporting with specialist departments.
• Transparency: Enhance clarity in financial and process workflows at the Merced, CA plant by delivering timely key figure reports.
• Internal Controls: Establish and monitor internal controls to safeguard company assets and ensure transaction integrity. Facilitate controlling processes to support targeted decision-making.
• Cost Management: Oversee the monthly financial closing process, ensuring accuracy and compliance with GAAP, statutory, and tax regulations.
• Investment Analysis: Conduct feasibility studies for non-filler Capex investments, track financial performance versus expectations, and identify savings to improve return on capital.
• Data Management: Ensure the supply of necessary data and information, and design and maintain controlling systems.
• Reporting: Prepare target/actual comparisons, interpret key figures, and contribute to improvement initiatives. Manage monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statement activities.
• Collaboration: Support plant director and manufacturing managers with financial insights for operational strategies and cost control. Assist with year-end financial results preparation and external/internal audit processes.
  
  

Skills

You bring these skills, experience & education

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance, with a focus on controlling/finance/accounting. CPA preferred
  
  

Skills:

• Communication: Strong speaking, writing, and presentation abilities.
• Technical Proficiency: Advanced Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Teams), SAP R3, Data Analytics. Knowledge of ERP systems (LN preferred), IBM Cognos (Controller, TM1), and QlikView/Qlik Sense.
  
  

We offer

• Premium Healthcare & Life Insurance
• 401K Retirement Plan
• Vacation & Sick Leave
• Much More
  
  

SIG competencies

We are looking for people who are willing to consistently achieve results, even under tough circumstances, employees who create a climate where everyone is motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives. If you actively seek new ways to grow and be challenged, if you develop people to meet both their career goals and the organization’s goals, SIG is the place for you. To deliver better for our customers, our future colleagues build strong customer relationships and deliver customer-centric solutions. Finally, we are looking for colleagues who build partnerships and work collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives. Are you someone who applies knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals? Are you someone who can create new and better ways for the organization to be successful? If the answer is ‘yes’, come and join us.

Our promise

SIG is the place for you to build something incredible. We offer competitive compensation and an opportunity to partially work from home. If you join us, you will be part of a globally successful international company, which is leading its industry in sustainability, technology, and more. We think of ourselves as the career launchpad - a place to develop yourself fast with real work, real experience, real opportunities to build skills. You will be part of a highly motivated and dynamic team, you will have personal development opportunities, trainings and coaching opportunities from senior team members. If you show skill and willingness to learn, we'll back you all the way.

About SIG

SIG is a leading provider of packaging systems and solutions for better. We work in partnership with our customers to bring food products to consumers around the world in a safe, sustainable, and affordable way. We are the only packaging system supplier covering carton, pouch, and bag-in-box. Our versatile technology and product innovation capacity enable us to deliver better for customers, for consumers, and for the world. Sustainability guides us, technology empowers us, but it’s the passion and drive of our people that truly enable us to deliver better. Founded in 1853, SIG is headquartered in Neuhausen, Switzerland, and listed at the SIX Swiss Exchange.

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SIG Recruiting Team