About the position
The Plant Controller is responsible for providing accurate, timely, and actionable financial information to support business decisions and drive operational performance at Kongsberg Automotive's Suffield, CT, and Grand River, OH facilities.
This position oversees financial planning and analysis, budgeting, forecasting, cost control, variance analysis, and financial reporting. The Plant Controller partners closely with plant management and cross-functional teams, including Operations, Supply Chain, Purchasing, and Human Resources, to identify cost-saving opportunities, improve profitability, and ensure effective financial management across both sites.
The successful candidate will combine strong financial and analytical skills with a hands-on, business-oriented approach. This role requires excellent communication skills, sound judgment, accountability, and the ability to translate financial data into meaningful insights and recommendations for management.
Responsibilities
1 Business Partnering and Performance Management
- Partner with the Plant Manager and plant leadership team to translate operational performance into clear financial insights, risks, opportunities, and actions.
- Coordinate weekly flash and performance reviews with plant management, focusing on revenue, margins, costs and delivery against targets.
- Provide financial decision support for cost control, productivity, capacity, and other operational improvement initiatives.
- Use cost and profitability models to support pricing decisions, assess current product performance, and evaluate new business opportunities.
- Planning, Forecasting, and Reporting
- Lead the plant budget and forecast processes, including departmental spending plans, gross-margin development, cash flow projections, and coordination of plant inputs.
- Prepare and upload monthly forecasts in HyperKA (Hyperion) for the two U.S. plants, ensuring quality, consistency, and timely submission.
- Prepare the monthly financial reporting package, including sales and margin analysis and net working capital components such as inventory, accounts receivable, accounts payable, and capital expenditure.
- Analyze variances and business trends, identify underlying drivers, and provide clear explanations and corrective-action recommendations.
- Support strategic planning, scenario analysis, business cases, and financial evaluation of growth and operational initiative.
3 Closing, Controls, and Compliance
- Coordinate monthly, quarterly, and annual financial closing activities within established timelines and with a high degree of accuracy.
- Ensure compliance with company accounting policies, financial controls, authorization requirements, and reporting standards.
- Maintain effective controls over plant financial processes, including inventory, fixed assets, expenditure, revenue recognition, and balance-sheet reconciliations.
- Support internal reporting requirements, internal control reviews, and the preparation of documentation for internal and external audits.
4 Costing, Working Capital, and Investment
- Partner with Engineering and Operations on product costing, standard-cost development, cost updates, and analysis of material, labor, and overhead performance.
- Develop and support accounts-receivable strategies and collection actions as required.
- Monitor and improve working capital performance, including inventory, receivables, payables, and cash conversion.
- Review capital expenditure requests and business cases, including financial assumptions, return analysis, prioritization, and post-investment follow-up.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance
- MBA is desirable
- 5-10 Years of accounting or financial planning & analysis (FP&A) experience, preferably in a manufacturing environment.
- Proficiency in HFM and SAP a plus
- Excellent Excel skills
- Strong analytical thinking and the ability to convert financial data into actionable business insight.
- Good team player
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Effective problem-solving and prioritization in a fast-paced, changing environment.
- Ability to balance operational support with independent financial governance and control.
What we offer
If this role sounds like your next opportunity, we offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, including a wide array of voluntary benefits in addition to a robust medical/dental/vision and life insurance. There is also a 401k plan with a generous employer match; paid Holidays and vacation time.
Joining the team in Suffield offers endless opportunities for a solution-oriented, results-driven leader!
Application / Contact
If this sounds interesting and likely the right challenge for you, we look forward to receiving your application!
Please register your CV/resume and cover letter.
Within your application, please inform us regarding your notice period and salary expectations.
The applications will be handled on an ongoing basis and the position may be filled before the application deadline date.