Job Description
Factory Controller
Location: Winsted, CT
Duration: Direct Hire – Onsite
Salary: $111,000–$125,000 DOE plus Excellent Benefits
Duration: Direct Hire – Onsite
Salary: $111,000–$125,000 DOE plus Excellent Benefits
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with Factory Management to provide timely financial analysis, reporting, and key performance indicators (KPIs) to maximize factory performance.
- Identify and drive opportunities to improve profitability, working capital, asset turns, contribution margins, and overall operational performance.
- Lead the annual budgeting and planning process, establishing realistic financial targets and identifying risks, opportunities, and contingency plans.
- Monitor actual performance against budgets and forecasts, analyze variances, and recommend corrective actions.
- Ensure internal financial controls and procedures are effective, compliant, and consistently followed.
- Manage all cost accounting activities, including standard costing, variance analysis, product costing, and month-end closing.
- Analyze manufacturing and operational data to identify cost-reduction and profitability improvement opportunities.
- Support lean manufacturing and continuous improvement initiatives by tracking and validating financial savings.
- Provide financial oversight for capital investments, including business case analysis, strategy alignment, and tracking expected returns.
- Support quoting and new business opportunities by developing cost estimates, financial models, and profitability analysis.
- Coordinate financial data collection, analysis, and reporting across the factory and broader value chain.
- Support annual audits, tax requirements, financial controls, and other corporate finance activities.
- Prepare ad hoc financial analysis and reports for factory and corporate leadership.
- Provide financial controlling support for the Winsted Sales Unit.
- Maintain a strong presence on the manufacturing floor and work closely with Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, and other functional teams.
- Communicate financial performance, risks, trends, and improvement opportunities to factory leadership.
Qualifications & Experience
- Experience in business or factory controlling with a strong accounting background in a manufacturing environment.
- Strong knowledge of standard cost accounting, manufacturing variances, budgeting, forecasting, and month-end closing.
- Ability to analyze complex financial and operational data and translate findings into clear recommendations for management.
- Demonstrated experience identifying opportunities to improve profitability, working capital, and manufacturing performance.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, critical-thinking, and decision-making skills.
- Experience with ERP systems and strong Microsoft Excel/MS Office skills.
- Experience with financial consolidation systems is beneficial.
- Experience with data analytics and business intelligence tools such as Power BI is preferred.
- Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively with factory leadership and cross-functional manufacturing teams.
- Comfortable working in a hands-on manufacturing environment and spending time on the production floor.
- Aerospace or other highly regulated manufacturing industry experience is beneficial.
Company Overview
Top Prospect Group, now part of HW Staffing Solutions, focuses on connecting high-quality candidates with top-tier clients. We offer expertise across multiple industries, ensuring that we meet and exceed staffing expectations.
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Numbers & Facts
| Location | Winsted, CT |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $111,000–$125,000 Per Year |
| Company Size | 20 to 49 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.topprospectgroup.com/ |
About Company
Top Prospect Group founders and management team offer more than 75 years of combined experience in Information Technology, Creative & Marketing, and Finance & Accounting staffing and solutions. Our fundamental goal is to build successful relationships resulting in accurate job and prospect representations. We meet with those we work with face-to-face to garner a better understanding of candidate or client requirements. By leveraging our experience and market insight, we are able to provide a more consistent recruitment process. Motivated by a partnership philosophy, our staff possesses a deep understanding of how to forge mutually beneficial long-term relationships. We believe in what we do and continuously strive for excellence.
Skills
- Accountingunmatched
- Accounting Closeunmatched
- Accounting Consolidationunmatched
- Ad Hoc Financial Modelingunmatched
- Aerospace and Defenseunmatched
- Analysis Skillsunmatched
- Budgetingunmatched
- Business Caseunmatched
- Business Intelligence Softwareunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Contingency Plansunmatched
- Continuous Improvementunmatched
- Corporate Financeunmatched
- Corrective Actionunmatched
- Cost Accountingunmatched
- Cost Controlunmatched
- Cost Estimatesunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Data Analysisunmatched
- Data Collectionunmatched
- ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)unmatched
- Financial Analysisunmatched
- Financial Controlunmatched
- Financial Managementunmatched
- Financial Modelingunmatched
- Financial Operationsunmatched
- Financial Reportingunmatched
- Financial Riskunmatched
- Financial Systemsunmatched
- Financial Trend Analysisunmatched
- Forecastingunmatched
- Interpersonal Skillsunmatched
- Investment Capitalunmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Lean Manufacturingunmatched
- Manufacturingunmatched
- Manufacturing Analysisunmatched
- Manufacturing Costunmatched
- Manufacturing Managementunmatched
- Manufacturing Operationsunmatched
- Microsoft Excelunmatched
- Microsoft Officeunmatched
- Performance Analysisunmatched
- Performance Managementunmatched
- Performance Metricsunmatched
- Power BIunmatched
- Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Process Improvementunmatched
- Product Costingunmatched
- Profit & Lossunmatched
- Profit & Loss Analysisunmatched
- Risk Analysisunmatched
- Salesunmatched
- Standard Costingunmatched
- Supply Chainunmatched
- Time Managementunmatched
- Value Chain Modelunmatched
- Variance Analysisunmatched
- Writing Skillsunmatched
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