Business Unit Controller
Keter North America
- Anderson, IN
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Preparation of annual budget and quarterly forecasts
- Establish and maintain Material, Labor, and Overhead standard rates, updating Standards and Bill-of-Materials as needed
- Establish and maintain customer gross revenue-to-net revenue calculations (G2N) by customer and product
- Ensure accuracy of financial statements by establishing and maintaining accruals for appropriate expenses
- Analysis of variances for Labor, Overhead, Price and Production/Absorption versus budget and forecast
- Income Statement (P&L) and Balance Sheet accounts - monthly reconciliation oversight/preparation
- Internal monthly financial reporting packages and slide decks
- Primary contact for management questions regarding plant performance
- Identification and implementation of internal control enhancements as needed
- Capital project justification and analysis; proper treatment of expense vs. capital; maintenance of capex and fixed asset system
- Customer profitability analysis including review of customer programs and margins to ensure company profitability objectives are met
- Identify, contribute, and implement cost savings projects in business
- Purchase order approver for Keter PO’s, tracking expenses against budget and forecast
- Partner with materials manager for inventory management, cycle counts, reporting, and analysis of obsolete provisions
- Strong collaboration and teamwork with other finance team members to ensure consistency of reporting and controls across North American network
- Collaboration with Purchasing leadership to accurately forecast future raw material costs
- Sales/Use tax oversight
- Credit monitoring of Keter customers when required
- Ad hoc analysis as needed
- Domestic travel up to 10% may be required.
- B.S. or B.A. in Accounting or related field of study and CPA required, MBA a plus.
- 7-10 years progressive experience, preferably in a manufacturing company, using standard costing
- 3-5 years of SAP experience is required, SAP implementation experience highly preferred
- IFRS strong knowledge highly preferred
- Knowledge of US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
- SAP experience required, implementation and integration experience highly preferred
- Experienced in process and system documentation and acquisition integrations
- SOX experience preferred
- Advanced PowerPoint and Excel capabilities required, e.g.: building, and applying advanced formulas (e.g.: sumproduct, indirect, index match, offset), using Power Pivot, importing data, creating relationships, creating PivotTables, using add-ins, recording, and editing macros, creating dashboards and templates).
- Self-starter; initiative-taking; energetic and thorough
- Ability to multi-task; manage conflicting priorities and projects; ability to adapt quickly, strong work ethic to do what is required to achieve goals.
- High regard for attention to detail and ability to accurately review/double-check their own work for accuracy