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Kentucky, United States
Hybrid
Alkegen brings together two of the world’s leading specialty materials companies to create one new, innovation-driven leader focused on battery technologies, filtration media, and specialty insulation. Through global reach and breakthrough inventions, we’re delivering products that enable the world to breathe easier, live greener, and go further than ever before.
With over 60 manufacturing facilities with a global workforce of over 9,000 of the industry’s most experienced talent, including insulation and filtration experts, Alkegen is uniquely positioned to help customers impact the environment in meaningful ways.
The Sealing Paper Plant Controller will be the strategic business partner to the Fulton, Hoosick Falls and Beaver Falls Plant Leaders. They will be the finance leader for these sites thus responsible for ensuring strong financial control, cost/working capital management and adherence to GAAP/IFRS and company financial policies. This role will report directly to the Mobility Operations Finance Leader.
Work Schedule: Requires in-office attendance four days per week Monday-Thursday, with Friday designated as work-from-home.
Responsibilities:
Ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance with accounting standards as a part of the monthly close processes - Enforce adherence to GAAP/IFRS and company financial policies through monitoring all internal control systems to ensure integrity in financial reporting
Own the integrity and accuracy of all manufacturing-related balance sheet accounts, while ensuring coordination with Corporate Controllership and Tax and compliance with CHQ policies
Prepare timely, accurate financial reports, forecasts and variance analysis that support strategic business decisions
Translation of operational performance metrics – throughput, yield, scrap, labor efficiency, etc. – into financial impact to enable plant leadership to react quickly and effectively
Leads inventory management ensuring accurate valuation, robust standard costing process, cycle count integrity obsolescence management and working capital optimization
Support the development and execution of the annual budgeting and rolling forecast processes ensuring alignment with company goals
Lead resolution of discrepancies and drive improvements in data quality and reporting systems
Key Competencies:
Is a consistent role model for the Alkegen Core Values
Demonstrates excellent process management and change management skills
Exemplifies a systems-thinking mindset being able to navigate complexity and understand secondary and tertiary financial impacts on decisions
Combines strong manufacturing finance and technical accounting skillsets
Develops relationships that enable effective leading, coaching, and development of team members
Is a highly motivated problem solver able to balance priorities well under pressure
Communicates clearly with all stakeholder groups; quickly builds trust, credibility and respect with senior leadership.
Can translate complex financial analyses into clear decision framework for leadership to quickly assess
Qualifications & Experience:
Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting required
5+ years of experience with 1-2 years relevant FP&A experience focused in a manufacturing setting
Ability and excitement to navigate a complex, fast growing, global manufacturing and business environment
Excellent organizational and analytical skills w/ supervisory experience leading financial teams through both controllership & FP&A duties and tasks
Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills`
Extremely proficient with Microsoft Excel/PowerPoint
Salary: Range from 117,771.00 to $147,000.00 USD Annual
Pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.
At Alkegen, we strive every day to help people breathe easier, live greener, and go further than ever before. We believe that diversity and inclusion is central to this mission and to our impact. Our diverse and inclusive culture drives our growth & innovation, and we nurture it by actively embracing our differences and using our varied perspectives to solve the complex challenges facing our changing and diverse world.
Employment selection and related decisions are made without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, nation of origin, religion, color, gender identity and expression, age, disability, education, opinions, culture, languages spoken, veteran’s status, or any other protected class.