Provisur Technologies

North American Controller

Provisur Technologies • $110K — $130K *
Mokena, IL 60448In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
8 - 10 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Minimum ten years of professional accounting experience in manufacturing with multi-product sites.
  • Strong cost accounting experience, including development and maintenance of standard costs.
  • Ability to standardize financial processes across multiple facilities.
  • Experience in building and managing finance teams.
  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance required.

Responsibilities

  • Oversee finance operations for assigned manufacturing plants and support multi-plant financial management.
  • Direct financial planning, forecasting, and reporting for plant operations.
  • Lead cost accounting activities including product costing and variance analysis.
  • Partner with operational leadership to drive improvements in decision-making and performance.
  • Monitor and analyze monthly operating results, providing variance insights and improvement recommendations.
  • Collaborate with divisions to ensure alignment in financial practices and compliance.
  • Ensure strong financial controls and adherence to corporate policies.

Benefits

  • Professional development opportunities and training programs.
  • Supportive work environment fostering team collaboration.
  • Opportunity to lead and influence operational financial strategies across multiple facilities.
Full Job Description
Description

POSITON SUMMARY/PURPOSE:

Oversee finance operations for assigned manufacturing facilities, including responsibility for two North American plants. Direct and coordinate month-end close, financial reporting, and budget management activities. Partner with plant leadership to support informed decision-making, improve operational performance, and identify cost optimization opportunities. Lead cost accounting activities, including standard cost development, variance analysis, and inventory valuation. Collaborate across divisions to ensure alignment to established financial practices and standards. Support the consistent application of financial processes, reporting, and controls across facilities while maintaining accuracy and compliance. Direct and develop assigned staff to ensure strong financial performance, effective controls, and a high-performing finance function supporting North American Operations.

POSITION ACCOUNTABILITIES:
  • Oversee finance operations for assigned plants, including month-end close activities (journal entries, account recs, monthly check lists, etc), and support multi-plant financial management across North America
  • Direct financial planning, forecasting, and reporting for plant operations.
  • Lead cost accounting including product costing, inventory valuation, standard cost development, and variance analysis.
  • Partner with local operational leadership to support informed decision-making and operational performance improvements (examples: operational lean, inventory reduction and cost of quality initiatives)
  • Monitor and analyze monthly operating results against budget and forecast, variance tracking and root cause analysis and recommendations for improvement.
  • Collaborate with multiple business units/divisions to provide financial expertise and ensure alignment of financial practices.
  • Ensure strong financial controls and compliance with corporate policies and regulatory requirements
  • Manage and coach finance staff while driving standardized finance team structure across plants
  • Lead financial audits and continuous improvement initiatives in financial and operational processes, other duties and projects as assigned

JOB KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS AND ABILITIES
  • Knowledge of finance, accounting, budgeting, and cost control principles including Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. Knowledge of federal and state financial regulations.
  • Ability to analyze financial data and prepare financial reports statements and projections. Working knowledge of short- and long-term budgeting and forecasting.
  • Work requires professional written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to produce quality materials within tight timeframes and simultaneously manage several projects. Ability to participate in and facilitate group meetings and influence key stakeholders.
  • Knowledge of cost accounting within a manufacturing environment, including hands-on experience establishing and maintaining standard costs (BOMs, routings, labor/overhead rates) and analyzing cost variances. Experience supporting plant leadership and operational teams in financial decision-making. Ability to standardize financial processes and reporting across multiple facilities. Experience supporting multi-site manufacturing operations and cross-functional business units.

PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE
  • Minimum of ten years of professional accounting experience in manufacturing industry, in multi-product sites. Cost accounting experience is required, including direct experience developing and maintaining standard costs in a manufacturing/multi-product environment. Prior experience building and managing a team is required.

EDUCATIONAL AND/OR TRAINIG REQUIREMENT
  • A minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance.


About Provisur Technologies

50 Years of Innovation Provisur’s brands have been leading the way in manufacturing industrial food processing equipment for over 50 years. Our highly experienced team of food scientists, product specialists and engineers thrive on delivering innovation. Our revolutionary designs are used around the world and represent over 350 global patents — part of an extensive portfolio of the industry’s most trusted, high-performing brands. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, our company has a global network of sales and service locations to provide local support. We take the time to fully support our customers and invest in progressive solutions that solve their challenges. In fact, many of our most unique innovations are born from hearing what our customers need to perfect their taste and quality, increase throughput and compete in new and evolving markets. Innovative Industrial Food Processing Equipment At Provisur, we pride ourselves in providing customer-driven innovations and solutions that satisfy a wide variety of industrial food processing needs: Industrial defrosting equipment Marinating, tenderizing & injecting Separation Food forming equipment Frying, cooking & smoking Meat sizing Form pressing Slicing Freezing A Legacy of Industry-Leading Brands Provisur’s legacy brands have been around for decades. We offer only the most reliable, highly regarded and innovative brands such as Weiler®, Formax®, Hoegger® and more. Our comprehensive portfolio has enabled us to offer system solutions for customers looking to establish an automated processing line. We push the boundaries of technology to ensure our customers gain the most value possible from their investment in our best-in-class equipment. Diverse Food Processing Applications Provisur helps customers deliver value through new product applications, higher performance, advanced hygiene design, labor-saving automation and more. Our key solution areas include: Ground, formed & portioned products Sliced products, including our renowned bacon processing Whole muscle products Mechanically separated products Bone-in products Sausages Protein alternatives Pet food Bakery
Learn more about Provisur Technologies
Size
500 employees
Industry
Food & Beverages
Founded
2008
* Ladders Estimates

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