Position Title: Plant Controller

Location: South Deerfield, MA

Reports to: VP Supply Chain Finance

The Plant Controller serves as the finance business partner for the Plant Management team. This individual will be responsible for the accounting-related processes at the plant in support of budgeting, product costing, capital spending, and productivity. Ensures the plant leadership team understands the impact of operating performance on financial results, drives a culture of continually improving both operating performance and financial processes while building and maintaining strong relationships with the plant leadership team. Committed to working in a team-oriented environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all plant accounting activities
• Analyze significant operating variances on a monthly basis and provide commentary on key drivers
• Develop and/or maintain key reporting tools to help inform Plant Management on trends and drivers to assist them in meeting financial commitments
• Oversee the annual budgeting and forecasting process for the site
• Own the annual standard cost update process as well as drive improvements in the standard costing process
• Work with Inventory Control group to review cycle count adjustments; ensure root cause has been identified and corrected
• Oversee purchase price variance (PPV) and cash discounts reporting for Purchasing stakeholders
• Analyze capital spending projects within overall Supply Chain; support cost/benefit analysis by calculating ROI/NPV and maintaining the capital budget
• Provide cost estimates to support new product initiatives as necessary; review and approve costing on all new SKU’s, raw materials and purchased finished goods
• Provide finance support for Value Analysis/Value Engineering and Lean Manufacturing initiatives, including analyzing and reporting potential/actual savings from actions.
• Provide ad-hoc analysis as necessary enabling team to understand expected financial impact of proposals
• Manage and develop two direct reports
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement

Key Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting; significant Accounting coursework required.
• 5+ years finance experience
• Proven record of success as a strategically-oriented financial manager with knowledge of supply chain finance
• Strong analytical and proven statistical knowledge and experience required.
• Excellent systems skill, including MS Office, especially Excel, as well as ERP system experience, preferably Oracle.

Newell Brands (NASDAQ: NWL) is a leading global consumer goods company with a strong portfolio of well-known brands, including Paper Mate, Sharpie, Dymo, EXPO, Parker, Elmers, Coleman, Marmot, Oster, Sunbeam, FoodSaver, Mr. Coffee, Graco, Baby Jogger, NUK, Calphalon, Rubbermaid, Contigo, First Alert, and Yankee Candle. For hundreds of millions of consumers, Newell Brands makes life better every day, where they live, learn, work and play. Newell Brands and its subsidiaries are Equal OpportunityEmployers and comply with applicable employment laws. EOE/M/F/Vet/Disabled are encouraged to apply.