Published: Mar 04, 2025 - The Factory Controller provides management with essential financial data and insights to facilitate strategic planning, budgeting, and decision-making processes. This position enhances financial performance by promoting operational consistency across DFRC facilities and spearheading benchmarking and investment initiatives for growth and operational improvements. This role coordinates financial planning, monitors fiscal health, and collaborates with the global finance team to develop skills, KPIs, and methodologies that support both short-term and long-term objectives.

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1. Factory Controller, SunTech Manufacturing, Redwood City, CA
Job Summary:
- Provide support on all CAPEX-related activities including the validation of financials
- Pro-actively challenge assumptions to drive cost improvements across the factory by playing an active part in cost saving improvement projects through reviewing and validating proposed and actual savings.
- Provide visibility and forecasts around all of the factory processes through analysis and reporting both on monthly actuals and for the dynamic forecasting process.
- Playing an active part in the month-end process including journals and reconciliations
- Ensure that costing objectives for the factory are achieved by continuously identifying and promoting cost reduction initiatives to the Factory Controller and overall management team, providing support where needed.
- Participate in business planning activities through preparing and coordinating the factory standard cost budget in conjunction with the Factory Controller.
- Play a key part in identifying and driving cost improvement opportunities through financial insight and internal and external benchmarking.
- Support the Factory Controller on best practice implementation in order to demonstrate robust internal controls around all assets and liabilities within the factory.
- Drive, support and accelerate the factory’s NCE journey aligned to the UK&I overall NCE strategy.
- Ensuring compliance across all things financial for the factory.
- Deputising for the Factory Financial Controller
Skills on Resume:
- Financial Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Cost Reduction (Hard Skills)
- Budgeting (Hard Skills)
- Forecasting (Hard Skills)
- Financial Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Internal Controls (Hard Skills)
- Process Improvement (Soft Skills)
- Stakeholder Management (Soft Skills)
2. Factory Controller, Bluewater Parts, Bloomington, IN
Job Summary:
- Place proper communication with the business owner to set up company target, making company planning, budgeting and forecasting.
- Develop and implement a periodical review process cross-function to ensure meet target, provide appropriate control on contractual term in the contract with customer, ensure company’s benefit to be protected legally.
- Place proper controls to ensure group and country policies compliance, place proper controls and management on government affairs, i.e., tax office, custom office SAFE office etc.
- Minimize company risk, place appropriate process to improve productivity.
- Implement SOX to ensure company financial reporting existence, completed, accurate & timely.
- Develop and enhance variety management reporting system, financial analysis system to ensure company operation in accordance with company planning, and place proper controls in the process
- Develop and implement cash planning process to ensure company operation financially profitable growth and monitor and ensure the implementation of REIWA requirements.
- Ensure that the area of responsibility is properly organized, staffed and directed.
- Guide, motivate and develop direct and indirect subordinate staff improve skills and competence.
- Build up dept culture, expedite round-way communication.
- Provide clear concise information to DFRC Divisional BP and participate in DFRC projects.
- Participate in finance projects at Hiab and Cargotec level
- Coordinate external and internal audit activities.
Skills on Resume:
- Financial Planning (Hard Skills)
- Risk Management (Hard Skills)
- Compliance (Hard Skills)
- Reporting Systems (Hard Skills)
- Process Improvement (Soft Skills)
- Staff Development (Soft Skills)
- Communication (Soft Skills)
- Project Management (Soft Skills)
3. Factory Controller, Precision Tools, Naperville, IL
Job Summary:
- Overseeing the business planning and forecasting process for the Coleshill factory and serving as the interface with Local Business Management
- Establishing cost structures, productivity optimization and capital efficiency while closely monitoring cash flow and taking relevant actions to improve net working capital
- Ensuring compliance with internal guidelines/procedures and external regulatory requirements
- Performing financial analysis, reporting to business managers and making suggestions to improve performance, where appropriate
- Establishing and overseeing processes and tools to obtain transparent and reliable financial data and business information
- Ensure that all assets are tagged and accounted for in the asset register.
- Ensure that all transfers, disposals and sale of assets are timely and accurately recorded.
- Perform quarterly asset reconciliations and report any variances.
- Participate in productivity improvement proposals and any other factory and warehouse studies.
- Control the accounts payable and payroll processes within the factory.
Skills on Resume:
- Financial Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Cost Optimization (Hard Skills)
- Compliance (Hard Skills)
- Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Asset Management (Hard Skills)
- Process Improvement (Soft Skills)
- Data Management (Hard Skills)
- Payroll Management (Hard Skills)
4. Factory Controller, Greenfield Metals, Franklin, TN
Job Summary:
- Provide management with financial information and business review and analysis and use this information to participate in planning, budgeting, decision making and controlling
- Work as a business partner and prepare financial plans and estimates of future business plans, budget and strategy.
- Challenge the business to improve its financial performance
- Drive consistency in operations measurement across the DFRC facilities.
- Lead benchmarking initiatives to drive performance
- Develop investment proposals to support growth and operational improvement
- Monitor and analyze monthly results against the budget.
- Prepare and present financial performance reports according to Cargotec’s and Hiab’s guidelines and controls.
- Coordinate the financial planning process within DFRC operations and in accordance with Hiab’s instructions and schedules
- Monitor profitability, cost, working capital and cash flow development and ensure that all negative deviations are addressed with no delay
- Improve and develop current ways of working, tools, methods and processes
- Continuously develop skills and work closely with the global finance team.
- Develop and track KPIs and plans to deliver short-term and long-term goals
- Support sales, project delivery and other functions in specific financial matters.
Skills on Resume:
- Financial Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Budgeting (Hard Skills)
- Business Partnering (Soft Skills)
- Benchmarking (Hard Skills)
- Investment Proposals (Hard Skills)
- Reporting (Hard Skills)
- KPI Development (Hard Skills)
- Process Improvement (Soft Skills)
5. Factory Controller, Summit Automotive, Asheville, NC
Job Summary:
- Support month-end closing in collaboration with Shared Services Center, prepare monthly financial statements for both local and regional finance and other operational reports for site.
- Drive variance analysis and communicate explanations to local factory management with recommended actions.
- Monitor periodically KPIs and collaborate with Factory Manager, other Factory Controllers and senior management to explain results, drive improvements, manage projects, identify inefficiencies, understand operations and lead the development of complex analysis.
- Lead budget and quarterly forecast activities (P&L, KPI, Profit Development Analysis) for the factory.
- Alert management on risks and opportunities and suggest corrective countermeasures.
- Drive periodic standard costs calculation and related systems update.
- Support and challenge positively management for the preparation of investment business cases.
- Follow-up on implementation and measure actual return on investments.
- Drive benchmarking and share best practices across regional finance team, e.g. process improvements, financial modelling and procedures changes.
- Drive good level of cooperation with the Shared Service Center to ensure quality, depth and timeliness of accounting information produced for reporting purposes.
- Provide proactive consultation, interpretation and education of complex financial and operational matters to various departmental leaders for the purpose of driving sound business decisions.
- Estimate product and project costs to support quoting activities.
Skills on Resume:
- Financial Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Variance Analysis (Hard Skills)
- KPI Management (Hard Skills)
- Budgeting (Hard Skills)
- Risk Management (Soft Skills)
- Investment Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Benchmarking (Hard Skills)
- Consultation (Soft Skills)
6. Factory Controller, Coastal Industrial, Charleston, SC
Job Summary:
- Overseeing the business planning and forecasting process
- Perform technical monthly, quarterly and year-end closing
- Make a monthly analysis of the balance sheet and income statement
- Perform Cost Center Controlling
- Make Profitability analysis of R&D Projects
- Analyze business numbers and propose actions for cost savings or investments and R&D
- Ensure continuous improvement of efficient controlling and reporting for R&D
- Perform Monthly Accruals and Quarterly Invoicing to the Hitachi ABB Power Grids Unit "Technology"
- Ensures proper accounting in accordance with IFRS Accounting Principles as well as local statutory requirements
- Ensure a high level of internal controls within the plant (in conjunction with corporate policies) as necessary to guarantee reporting integrity, safeguard company assets and mitigate any risks.
- Must work across organization boundaries and all levels of the company to achieve the company’s objectives
Skills on Resume:
- Financial Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Cost Controlling (Hard Skills)
- Profitability Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Budgeting (Hard Skills)
- Internal Controls (Hard Skills)
- IFRS Compliance (Hard Skills)
- Cross-functional Collaboration (Soft Skills)