The Schwan Food Company

This position is responsible for maintaining proper financial control/reporting systems to ensure that plants assets are utilized and managed in the most cost effective and profitable manner in order to maximize return on investment for the Schwan Food Company. The Plant Controller will be a key player in the plant management team providing key analysis and insights to guide decision making as well as taking a leadership role in challenging the plant to improve financial performance. Ensures all plant accounting/reporting is done in a timely and accurate manner and in accordance with US GAAP Accounting Standards and accounting policies/ procedures of The Schwan Food Company.

• Provides leadership and direction to the local plant accounting team to ensure the financial accounting and reporting needs of the plant are met to enable the plant management team to meet their budgeted financial goals and objectives.
• Ensures the accuracy and integrity of the plants accounting systems and records. Enhances current plant accounting and performance reporting systems to identify variances to enable timely corrective action.
• Uses value analysis techniques to identify and make recommendations to plant management to improve performance and lower unit costs.
• Instills strong cost control/ reporting and planning discipline to assist senior plant management in controlling manufacturing costs while achieving the required product quality standards.
• Provides financial advice and assistance to the plant management team to ensure decision making is made on a sound financial and operational basis.
• Works with plant management structure to raise their financial awareness and acumen.
• Assists plant management team with short to long term capital planning including identifying and evaluating financial payback on all new capital expenditure proposals.
• Conduct post implementation capital project reviews to ensure projects achieve financial objectives.
• Provides accurate and timely operational performance reporting to meet the needs of the Marshall Operations Management Team including monthly and quarterly plant performance commentaries.
• Leads designing and developing formal financial and management accounting information reporting systems to establish strong financial controls.
• Works with the Marshall corporate finance/business unit integration personnel on a number of initiatives including; providing cost information for Stage Gate projects cost reduction business unit collaboration initiatives identifying cost/performance improvement opportunities and establishing and sharing plant accounting/controlling/reporting best practices opportunities.
• Establishes annual business planning process including preparation of the financial manufacturing business plan.
•  Assists in the design and development of strong financial/business control processes to ensure accuracy and integrity of financial records minimization of business risk and proper stewardship of all plants assets covering but not limited to contracts inventory plant and equipment and capital versus revenue expenditure.
• Prepares weekly plant cost forecasts to assist and provide greater accuracy to the Marshall Finance weekly Flash process.
• Ensures strict compliance to all company policies procedures and controls.
• Key focus areas include materials cost management labor cost and utilization asset utilization overhead expenditure control and maintenance effectiveness. R
• esponsible to conduct yourself and ensure your subordinates (if applicable) conduct themselves in a manner consistent with company mission values code of ethics policies and other standards of conduct.