Plant Controller POST NUMBER: 472559
Fort Worth, TX (onsite first 6 months, hybrid afterwards)
One of Vaco’s food and beverage manufacturing clients is looking for a Controller to lead the charge on both accounting and finance functions for a plant location in Fort Worth. The Plant Controller will oversee the full spectrum of plant-level accounting functions, including month-end close, cost accounting, budgeting, forecasting, and operational analysis. This individual will play a critical role in building scalable financial processes and providing actionable insights as the facility ramps production and grows.
This is a hyper-growth environment with the parent company setting up shop in the last 5 years, opening their Fort Worth plant in the last year and have plans for rapid East coast expansion.
Compensation: $150-160K 10-15%
Day-to-Day
- Lead the monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes for the plant, ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting.
- Prepare and review journal entries, account reconciliations, and supporting schedules.
- Ensure compliance with U.S. GAAP and company accounting policies.
- Maintain the integrity of the plant’s balance sheet and income statement.
- Coordinate with corporate finance to support consolidated financial reporting.
- Own the plant cost accounting structure, including standard costing, inventory valuation, and cost variance analysis.
- Analyze production costs, labor efficiency, material usage, and overhead absorption.
- Monitor and report on key manufacturing metrics such as: cost per unit, scrap and yield, labor utilization, production variances
- Lead the development of the plant’s annual operating budget and periodic forecasts.
- Analyze financial results against budget and forecast, providing detailed variance analysis.
- Develop financial models to support operational decisions, capital investments, and capacity planning.
- Provide plant leadership with insights to improve profitability and operational performance.
- Serve as a key business partner to the Plant Manager and operations leadership team.
- Provide financial analysis to support operational initiatives, productivity improvements, and margin expansion.
- Oversee inventory accounting and controls, including cycle counts and annual physical inventories.
- Establish and maintain strong internal controls over financial reporting and plant operations.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field required
- CPA or CMA preferred
- 7–12 years of progressive accounting or finance experience
- Prior experience in manufacturing or plant-level finance strongly preferred
- Experience in cost accounting and inventory accounting
- Exposure to budgeting, forecasting, and operational financial analysis
- Experience supporting plant operations or manufacturing leadership teams
- Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP and manufacturing accounting practices
- Deep understanding of standard costing, inventory controls, and variance analysis
- Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills
- Experience with ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, or similar)
Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco/Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to the individual’s skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, office location and other geographic considerations, as well as other business and organizational needs. With that said, as required by local law in geographies that require salary range disclosure, Vaco/Highspring notes the salary range for the role is noted in this job posting. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, and can participate in medical, dental, and vision benefits as well as the company’s 401(k) retirement plan. Additional disclaimer: Unless otherwise noted in the job description, the position Vaco/Highspring is filing for is occupied. Please note, however, that Vaco/Highspring is regularly asked to provide talent to other organizations. By submitting to this position, you are agreeing to be included in our talent pool for future hiring for similarly qualified positions. Submissions to this position are subject to the use of AI to perform preliminary candidate screenings, focused on ensuring minimum job requirements noted in the position are satisfied. Further assessment of candidates beyond this initial phase within Vaco/Highspring will be otherwise assessed by recruiters and hiring managers. Vaco/Highspring does not have knowledge of the tools used by its clients in making final hiring decisions and cannot opine on their use of AI products.
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Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:
- the individual’s skill sets, experience and training;
- licensure and certification requirements;
- office location and other geographic considerations;
- other business and organizational needs.
With that said, as required by local law, Vaco by Highspring believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.