Plant Controller

The Overview

We just partnered with Honeywell, a Fortune 100 global manufacturer that has over 100,000 employees worldwide, on an exciting Plant Controller role based out of Nebraska City, NE. The Controller will provide financial leadership to the factory and business partnering for reporting, analysis, planning, and forecasting for Honeywell Thermal Solutions, ensuring adequate financial controls and driving compliance to HONEYWELL, PMT/HPS, and ISC financial policy.

Honeywell Process Solutions is a pioneer in automation control, instrumentation and services for the oil and gas; refining; energy; pulp and paper; industrial power generation; chemicals and petrochemicals; biofuels; life sciences; and metals, minerals, and mining industries. A leader in digitization, Honeywell delivers software and services that help customers overcome competitive pressures and uncertain market conditions to achieve game-changing business outcomes. Honeywell's comprehensive portfolio in process control, monitoring, and safety systems and instrumentation provides optimized operations and maintenance efficiencies to meet diverse automation needs.

Honeywell is unique in the sense that they do not have a COO position. They consider finance to be that bridge and you will see an organization that is driven through their finance team to move towards the company's objectives.

The Role

• Collaborate with business management and support teams to ensure strong execution, delivery of customer value and positive business results. Develop a strong team approach, providing financial management support to all levels of the business team.
• Lead the preparation of the financial forecasts and budgets, including the identification or quantification of risks and opportunities; facilitate the negotiation and agreement of key operational metrics and inputs.
• Oversee periodic analysis of variances as compared to plan, forecast and prior periods. Prepare presentations and documentation of budget and forecast information.
• Address issues and develop a plan of action. Find opportunities to improve processes and practices while working with business and functional teams to develop consistent management reporting and processes.
• Support monthly reviews and periodic business planning sessions. Involves evaluating financial and operational results, supervising data and contributing to the development of key initiatives.
• Collaborate with key functional leaders to develop and coordinate the Annual Operating Plan / Official Estimates.
• Work closely with Sourcing team to reconcile supplier spend data/purchase price variance with financial systems, helping to identify opportunities for the procurement team to drive value.
• Monitor and anticipate factory performance driving actions to improve efficiencies. Drive actions to reduce Cost of Poor Quality at the site.
• Drive Monthly Operating reviews with both ETO departments and ISC departments in Muncie, including Indirect expense actual vs budget.
• Participate in SIOP (Sales, Inventory, Operations Planning) Muncie to drive close alignment between demand, supply, and revenue plans while maintaining low level of inventory. Set and monitor levels of inventory to optimize delivery.
• Participate and provide financial support in make-buy decisions and CAPEX/Project savings.
• Perform Controllership oversight working closely with Country Controllership US to ensure compliance with company policies and procedures. Drive Month-end Closing process to ensure deliverables are met as per Closing Calendar. Partner for Corporate and External Finance Audits.
• Drive annual standard setting costing process to ensure functional accountability of variances (material, labor, and overhead).
• Collaborate with transfer pricing team and ensure accurate Transfer pricing for Muncie factory – partnering with Tax and all functions involved.

In Our Words

Honeywell will offer you the ability to gain more experiences and responsibilities in order to hit your own career goals, including both domestic and international opportunities. This job will not just be about what you can do for the company, but can you help build up your team around you to take on more responsibility as well. Mentorship and helping others reach their goals will be a major factor in your own success at Honeywell.

The Culture

While Honeywell has a great finance team, their expectations for candidates are high. While MBA/CPA/CMA are not required, they demonstrate the kind of personal development that the right candidate will have. This company wants someone that is professional, easily approachable, polished, and can show a little passion/fire. They are going to invest a lot into you to make you well rounded in hopes that you will grow with the company to future Division Controller, Sr. Directors and CFOs in the company – and people that can be trained to look at numbers, analyze and then hold their peers accountable for the commitments they signed up for.

The reward for all of this is joining an organization that can offer future growth and development like very few other companies can.

Systems & ERP

Experience using SAP, Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) or similar tools is valued. Strong Excel skills are also expected.