Our Finance team is looking for a Plant Controller to support KION North America’s operations in Summerville, SC. This position will be an integral part of the Finance team reporting directly to the Controlling Manager. Working closely with executives and leadership team members in manufacturing, ultimate goal for this position is to improve profitability and drive efficiency gains within and between operational functions.
What we offer:
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Continuously improve processes at the interface between finance and operations.
- Track development of product costs and lead margin analysis by product.
- Review production variances (materials & labor) with management and help drive to root cause
- Maintain labor/overhead/machine rates for production routings.
- Implement finance relevant KPIs that complement existing operational KPIs to detect unrealized efficiencies, cost savings potentials and opportunities for productivity improvements.
- Closely monitor the production inventory value and reach times.
- Support the operations team with the inventory count.
- Support the month-close process.
- Support the annual budget and mid-term planning process as well as monthly P&L forecasts for operations.
- Ensure compliance with CAPEX budget and support CAPEX requesters with profitability calculations of investments and challenge assumptions.
- Perform and/or support make-or-buy calculations.
- Prepare ad-hoc financial analytics as requested by executive and leadership team.
- Drive / lead cross-functional process improvement / Kaizen initiatives.
- Be an integral part of the project team for the make-to-order implementation in SAP.
Tasks and Qualifications:
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor’s in Finance or Business
- At least 5 years of experience in a Financial role in an operations environment
- SAP knowledge
- Advanced MS Excel user
- Business mindset, interest in business beyond the numbers
- Strong communication skills
- Very proactive, self-motivated and process oriented
- Hands-on mentality
Preferred:
- Master’s degree
- Continuous Improvement mindset / certification
- Experience working for an international company
Top Skills
What We Do
Looking to make your move? Then you’ve come to the right place! We are the KION Group, and the world of intralogistics is our home. Our solutions ensure the smooth flow of materials and information in production plants, warehouses, and distribution centers in over 100 countries.
We have around 41,000 employees who make a real difference, helping us to become who we are today: the biggest manufacturer of forklift trucks and warehouse handling equipment in Europe, and one of the world’s leading warehouse automation providers.
Successful? We are, but it’s all down to the motivated, highly trained, and multi-talented people that work for us. Would you like to be part of an international, diverse team? We can offer you interesting jobs and exciting career opportunities in an innovative, rapidly-growing, and forward-looking industry.
With us, you benefit from numerous development opportunities in a globally active group, including the possibility of working at one of our locations abroad on a temporary basis.
No matter which of our sites you work at, the KION values—integrity, collaboration, courage, and excellence—shape our individual action and our collaboration with colleagues, managers, customers, suppliers, and applicants both nationally and internationally.
Who makes up the KION Group? With our international brands Linde Material Handling, STILL, and Baoli, as well as regional brands Fenwick and OM, we stand for exceptional technology and service expertise for forklift trucks and warehouse handling equipment around the world. Dematic expands the portfolio with its automated material handling solutions for intralogistics processes in warehouses, production, and sales
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