{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"4e60a2385e7da507121f5661","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/4e60a2385e7da507121f5661","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/4e60a2385e7da507121f5661","title":"Assistant Controller","description":"Job Description\n\nThe Assistant Controller supports the Controller and local business unit leadership by delivering accurate reporting, actionable analysis, inventory controls, and cost management insight that improve financial performance and operational decision-making.\nThis role serves as a key analytical partner to finance, operations, supply chain, and site leadership, helping translate manufacturing activity into clear financial understanding. The Assistant Controller will support budgeting, forecasting, monthly close, variance analysis, inventory reporting, standard cost maintenance, margin analysis, and business performance reviews.\nThe ideal candidate is highly analytical, detail-oriented, curious, and comfortable working closely with both financial and operational data. This role is well-suited for someone who enjoys building reports, identifying trends, improving processes, and helping business leaders understand not just what happened, but why it happened and what actions should come next.\nPrepare and analyze daily, weekly, and monthly financial and operational reports that support business unit performance management.\nSupport the monthly close process through journal entry preparation, account reconciliations, variance analysis, accrual support, and financial reporting.\nAnalyze manufacturing costs, including material, labor, overhead, freight, scrap, rework, yield, productivity, and absorption variances.\nSupport standard cost development, cost roll-ups, item cost maintenance, and ERP cost updates under the direction of the Controller.\nMonitor inventory balances, cycle count results, inventory adjustments, obsolete and slow-moving inventory, reserve requirements, and inventory valuation.\nPartner with operations and supply chain to strengthen inventory controls, improve transaction accuracy, and identify root causes of inventory variances.\nPrepare margin analysis by customer, product, product family, channel, or business segment to support pricing, mix, and profitability decisions.\nDevelop dashboards and reporting tools that provide timely insight into sales, gross margin, operating expenses, inventory, working capital, and operational KPIs.\nSupport budgeting and forecasting processes by gathering inputs, analyzing trends, preparing schedules, and developing financial models.\nAssist with capital spending analysis, including project tracking, ROI calculations, payback analysis, and post-completion reviews.\nResearch and explain key financial variances to budget, forecast, prior year, and prior period results.\nSupport cash flow and working capital analysis, including inventory, receivables, payables, and operational drivers.\nPartner with shared services, as needed, to research AR, AP, payroll, cash application, and transactional issues impacting business unit reporting or performance.\nAssist with internal and external audit requests, including documentation, account support, inventory testing, and control-related analysis.\nIdentify reporting gaps, process inefficiencies, and data integrity issues, and recommend improvements to enhance accuracy, speed, and usefulness of financial information.\nBecome a strong user of Epicor and other reporting systems, with the ability to retrieve, validate, analyze, and present data without heavy reliance on IT.\nPrepare ad hoc analysis, special projects, and business case support for the Controller, General Manager, and local leadership team.\nSupport a culture of safety, accountability, continuous improvement, and financial discipline.\n\nQualifications\n\nStrong financial analysis, business analytics, reporting, and problem-solving skills.\nSolid understanding of manufacturing finance, cost accounting, inventory accounting, standard costing, and variance analysis.\nAbility to analyze large data sets, identify trends, explain variances, and turn data into practical business recommendations.\nStrong Excel skills, including formulas, pivot tables, lookups, data modeling, and report automation.\nExperience developing dashboards, reports, financial models, and KPI tracking tools.\nStrong attention to detail with the ability to balance accuracy, deadlines, and changing business priorities.\nEffective communication skills, with the ability to explain financial results clearly to both finance and non-finance audiences.\nAbility to collaborate with operations, supply chain, shared services, and local leadership teams.\nStrong systems aptitude, with the ability to retrieve and validate data from ERP and reporting systems.\nContinuous improvement mindset with a desire to simplify processes, improve controls, and make reporting more useful.\nHigh level of ownership, curiosity, and accountability.\nEducation & Experience Preferred\nBachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Economics, or related field required.\nMinimum of 3-5 years of progressive financial analysis, cost accounting, manufacturing finance, or related experience preferred.\nManufacturing experience strongly preferred.\nExperience with inventory controls, standard costing, cost management, and variance analysis preferred.\nExperience with Epicor or similar ERP system a plus.\nAdvanced Excel skills required.\nExperience with Power BI, Tableau, SQL, or other business intelligence tools a plus.\nCPA, CMA, MBA, or other relevant certification a plus.\n\nAdditional Information\n\nAll your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.\nWe believe that different perspectives and backgrounds are what make a company flourish. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, economic status, disability, age, or any other legally protected characteristics. We are proud to be an inclusive company with values grounded in equality and ethics, where we celebrate, support, and embrace diversity.\nAt no time during the hiring process will Smiths Group, nor any of our recruitment partners ever request payment to enable participation – including, but not limited to, interviews or testing. 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The Assistant Controller will support budgeting, forecasting, monthly close, variance analysis, inventory reporting, standard cost maintenance, margin analysis, and business performance reviews.\nThe ideal candidate is highly analytical, detail-oriented, curious, and comfortable working closely with both financial and operational data. This role is well-suited for someone who enjoys building reports, identifying trends, improving processes, and helping business leaders understand not just what happened, but why it happened and what actions should come next.\nPrepare and analyze daily, weekly, and monthly financial and operational reports that support business unit performance management.\nSupport the monthly close process through journal entry preparation, account reconciliations, variance analysis, accrual support, and financial reporting.\nAnalyze manufacturing costs, including material, labor, overhead, freight, scrap, rework, yield, productivity, and absorption variances.\nSupport standard cost development, cost roll-ups, item cost maintenance, and ERP cost updates under the direction of the Controller.\nMonitor inventory balances, cycle count results, inventory adjustments, obsolete and slow-moving inventory, reserve requirements, and inventory valuation.\nPartner with operations and supply chain to strengthen inventory controls, improve transaction accuracy, and identify root causes of inventory variances.\nPrepare margin analysis by customer, product, product family, channel, or business segment to support pricing, mix, and profitability decisions.\nDevelop dashboards and reporting tools that provide timely insight into sales, gross margin, operating expenses, inventory, working capital, and operational KPIs.\nSupport budgeting and forecasting processes by gathering inputs, analyzing trends, preparing schedules, and developing financial models.\nAssist with capital spending analysis, including project tracking, ROI calculations, payback analysis, and post-completion reviews.\nResearch and explain key financial variances to budget, forecast, prior year, and prior period results.\nSupport cash flow and working capital analysis, including inventory, receivables, payables, and operational drivers.\nPartner with shared services, as needed, to research AR, AP, payroll, cash application, and transactional issues impacting business unit reporting or performance.\nAssist with internal and external audit requests, including documentation, account support, inventory testing, and control-related analysis.\nIdentify reporting gaps, process inefficiencies, and data integrity issues, and recommend improvements to enhance accuracy, speed, and usefulness of financial information.\nBecome a strong user of Epicor and other reporting systems, with the ability to retrieve, validate, analyze, and present data without heavy reliance on IT.\nPrepare ad hoc analysis, special projects, and business case support for the Controller, General Manager, and local leadership team.\nSupport a culture of safety, accountability, continuous improvement, and financial discipline.\n\nQualifications\n\nStrong financial analysis, business analytics, reporting, and problem-solving skills.\nSolid understanding of manufacturing finance, cost accounting, inventory accounting, standard costing, and variance analysis.\nAbility to analyze large data sets, identify trends, explain variances, and turn data into practical business recommendations.\nStrong Excel skills, including formulas, pivot tables, lookups, data modeling, and report automation.\nExperience developing dashboards, reports, financial models, and KPI tracking tools.\nStrong attention to detail with the ability to balance accuracy, deadlines, and changing business priorities.\nEffective communication skills, with the ability to explain financial results clearly to both finance and non-finance audiences.\nAbility to collaborate with operations, supply chain, shared services, and local leadership teams.\nStrong systems aptitude, with the ability to retrieve and validate data from ERP and reporting systems.\nContinuous improvement mindset with a desire to simplify processes, improve controls, and make reporting more useful.\nHigh level of ownership, curiosity, and accountability.\nEducation & Experience Preferred\nBachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Economics, or related field required.\nMinimum of 3-5 years of progressive financial analysis, cost accounting, manufacturing finance, or related experience preferred.\nManufacturing experience strongly preferred.\nExperience with inventory controls, standard costing, cost management, and variance analysis preferred.\nExperience with Epicor or similar ERP system a plus.\nAdvanced Excel skills required.\nExperience with Power BI, Tableau, SQL, or other business intelligence tools a plus.\nCPA, CMA, MBA, or other relevant certification a plus.\n\nAdditional Information\n\nAll your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.\nWe believe that different perspectives and backgrounds are what make a company flourish. 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