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Plant Controller

 

 

 

SUMMARY OF ROLE

The Plant Controller is responsible for the management of the plant’s financial activities, overseeing accounting operations, and ensuring the Chilhowie facility meets its financial, operational, and compliance goals. This role serves as a key business partner to plant leadership, providing financial insight, cost transparency, and strategic guidance to support operational performance and continuous improvement.

 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

As an at-will employer, SIG reserves the right to add to or modify this list to the extent it deems necessary.

  • Manage the plant’s finances, ensuring accurate accounting, reporting, and compliance with SIG policies and applicable accounting standards.
  • Prepare and review monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements.
  • Lead month-end close activities in alignment with corporate timelines.
  • Ensure accuracy of general ledger, accruals, and reconciliations.
  • Develop and manage the annual plant budget, including labor, overhead, and capital expenditures.
  • Partner with plant leadership to manage headcount planning, labor costs, and productivity assumptions.
  • Prepare forecasts and outlooks, identifying risks and opportunities throughout the year.
  • Monitor spending against budget and proactively address variances.
  • Perform detailed variance analysis (labor, material, overhead, scrap, yield, and efficiency).
  • Conduct cost control and profitability analysis to identify savings opportunities and margin improvement.
  • Support standard cost development, maintenance, and analysis.
  • Partner with Operations and Engineering to evaluate cost drivers and improvement initiatives.
  • Maintain and enforce strong internal controls to ensure financial integrity and compliance with SIG policies.
  • Support internal and external audits and ensure timely resolution of findings.
  • Ensure compliance with company policies, procedures, and applicable regulatory requirements.
  • Provide strategic financial guidance to the Plant Manager and leadership team to support decision-making.
  • Translate financial results into actionable insights for non-finance stakeholders.
  • Support capital investment analysis, ROI evaluations, and business cases.
  • Act as a trusted advisor on financial risks, opportunities, and performance improvement initiatives.
  • Oversee inventory accounting, cycle counts, and physical inventory processes.
  • Ensure accurate inventory valuation and reconciliation of discrepancies.
  • Track and manage capital expenditures, including approvals, capitalization, and depreciation.

 

YOU BRING THESE SKILLS, EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION

  • Bachelor’s degree required in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field.
  • 5+ years of progressive accounting or finance experience, preferably in a manufacturing environment.
  • Experience with plant-level finance, cost accounting, or operational finance strongly preferred.
  • Proven experience with budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and cost control.
  • Prior experience partnering with plant or operations leadership is highly desirable.
  • ERP system experience required (SAP preferred).
  • Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
  • Experience with financial reporting and analytics tools preferred.

 

WE OFFER:

  • Generous Day 1 eligibility healthcare & life insurance for you and qualified dependents
  • 401K Retirement matching reimbursement 
  • Vacation & PSL
  • Paid Holidays
  • Performance Bonus
  • And much more!

 

 

SIG COMPENTENCIES

We are looking for people who are willing to consistently achieve results, even under tough circumstances, employees who create a climate where everyone is motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives. If you actively seek new ways to grow and be challenged, if you develop people to meet both their career goals and the organization’s goals, SIG is the place for you. To deliver better for our customers, our future colleagues build strong customer relationships and deliver customer-centric solutions. Finally, we are looking for colleagues who build partnerships and work collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives. Are you someone who applies knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals? Are you someone who can create new and better ways for the organization to be successful? If the answer is ‘yes’, come and join us.

 

 

OUR PROMISE

SIG is the place for you to build something incredible. We offer competitive compensation and an opportunity to partially work from home. If you join us, you will be part of a globally successful international company, which is leading its industry in sustainability, technology, and more. We think of ourselves as the career launchpad - a place to develop yourself fast with real work, real experience, real opportunities to build skills. You will be part of a highly motivated and dynamic team, you will have personal development opportunities, trainings and coaching opportunities from senior team members. If you show skill and willingness to learn, we'll back you all the way.

 

ABOUT SIG

SIG is a leading provider of packaging systems and solutions for better. We work in partnership with our customers to bring food products to consumers around the world in a safe, sustainable, and affordable way. We are the only packaging system supplier covering carton, pouch, and bag-in-box. Our versatile technology and product innovation capacity enable us to deliver better for customers, for consumers, and for the world. Sustainability guides us, technology empowers us, but it’s the passion and drive of our people that truly enable us to deliver better.

 

Founded in 1853, SIG is headquartered in Neuhausen, Switzerland, and listed at the SIX Swiss Exchange.

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