Job description

The Big Ass family is growing! The Plant Controller role will report to the Vice President of Operations Big Ass Fans (BAF) and will be responsible for most things finance in our manufacturing operations. Do you have a strange attraction to standard costing? Do you know the difference between Opex and Capex? Do you love businesses that make physical stuff? This is your job. Like what you see below? Swipe right and we'll let you know if it's a match.

Responsibilities

• Lead as a financial business partner to help understand the business challenges and leverage financial understanding to develop and analyze solutions that allow the team to meet or exceed goals.
• Prepare and communicate monthly and quarterly reports which summarize business activity and drivers of financial position in areas of income, expenses, and earnings based on past, present, and expected operations.
• Support the operational excellence strategy by working closely with the organization on process improvements, KPIs, business case modeling, and analysis.
• Support Operations and the organization to achieve unit and Divisional goals and objectives, including the annual operating plan, long-range strategic plan, and capital investments.
• Develop and maintain financial reporting processes with strong internal controls to ensure accurate and timely reporting that adheres to internal policies, audit requirements, and GAAP.
• Provide operational analysis to identify problems/opportunities, recommend solutions and facilitate accurate decisions and strategies. Examples include 80/20 analysis, price/cost analysis, etc.
• Measurement of operational performance of our manufacturing operations, with variance analysis performed monthly and ad hoc throughout the month; deep dive into the drivers of variances in gross margin across the business to help improve performance.
• Responsible for developing standard costs for the group and rolling them properly and accurately.
• Lead the annual inventory and cycle count processes to achieve inventory goals.
• Development and maintenance of operations finance-related reserve policies (e.g., slow-moving, obsolete, etc).
• Work with the operations teams to connect the operational and financial performance of the business.
• Track cost savings activities across the business and understand how those should be manifesting themselves in the business results; help the group identify additional savings.
• Play an active part in the SIOP process, understanding how changes in the sales forecast will impact operational/financial metrics.
• Drive deep insight into the costs of the business to help create product line P&Ls.
• Help drive the capital expenditure process.
• Make presentations and do ad hoc analyses for the senior leadership of the business.

Requirements

• Living in, or willing to move to, the Lexington, KY area
• Undergraduate degree in Economics, Finance, Accounting, or a related field
• 5+ years of previous experience with a good portion of that in a manufacturing environment
• Must understand the concepts underlying standard costing, the various types of variances that can be seen in manufacturing, capitalized variances, and other very nuanced concepts of the manufacturing accounting space – if you don’t already understand this, this is likely not your job (but if you still think you’re a Rock Star, send us your resume anyway – we’re always looking for talent!)
• Superior, hands-on modeling skills and adeptness with Excel – the bucks stop with you in terms of the accuracy and quality of the output –you need to be a doer and not a delegator
• Exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail – you maintain your task list tightly and rarely miss deadlines
• High bandwidth being able to manage multiple stakeholders at once
• Strong work ethic – we work hard and play hard – and expect the same from those who join the team

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Why live life Big Ass?*

You want benefits? We’ve got your health insurance, life insurance, 401(k) and more. You want Big Ass Benefits? Join us in the cantina for a catered lunch followed by a game of Ping-Pong. Did we break another record today? Let’s open the beer fridge and make plans to meet this weekend at the company-sponsored social outing.

Why haven’t you applied yet?

Big Ass Fans is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin, age, disability or veteran status. Big Ass Fans maintains an environment where each individual is valued and respected. Individuals are expected to understand and comply with OSHA and ISO 9001 standards and procedures. Individuals are expected to apply safe work methods when performing the job requirements in hazardous and non-hazardous environments to avoid injury to self to co-workers or damage to property. Individuals are expected to report unsafe work conditions or equipment operation to supervisors immediately and observe all safety rules.

If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, you may email us at recruiting@bigassfans.com* or call us at 1.877.244.3267.*

Job Type: Full-time

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