Plant Controller at Mestek, Inc

Participates as a critical member of division management team working closely with all disciplines to meet production and profitability goals. Performs a variety of accounting duties, both routine and project based. Performs analyses and forecasts involving inventory, Bill of Material of job-based profitability on individual standard product and services and custom fabrication lines.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Review and analyze all job and standard costing functions for the division
• Audits all automated functions essential to financial reporting through the MRP system to assure that all are complete, accurate and in order.
• Responsible for analyzing the accuracy of all inventory physical counts, classifications and calculations and WIP and accruals
• Reviews monthly gross margin reports to identify all anomalous results; investigate causes as it relates to inventory and bill of material variances and advise managers on solutions
• manages BOM costs including material costs and labor costs in an MRP environment, including material variances, labor variances
• Write queries to extract and analyze costing, margin, and inventory valuation data.
• Overall responsibility for accuracy of monthly costing, margins and inventory valuation.
• Oversees compliance with internal control aspects of inventory control including purchase orders, receiving, vouchering, inventory taking, inventory valuation LIFO/FIFO rules, etc.
• Works with and follow the directives of corporate financial management to assure the division's input is timely, accurate and complete in the corporate consolidation.
• Performs other similar or related duties as required or requested

Position Requirements:

The Plant Controller must possess the minimum knowledge:

• Bachelor's Degree
• 5+ years hands on MRP experience in a modern MRP environment with standard and semi-custom products involving extensive metal fabrication and assembly
• Ability to use other computer software, including Microsoft Office products
• Experience with ERP software, particularly manufacturing modules: Costing, Bills of material, Inventory Control, etc.
• Hands on experience with Globalshop a plus
• APICS certification a plus
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to supervise complex processes
• Ability to work well with others
• Travel required to Corporate locations, estimated at 50%