Dana Incorporated

Plant Controller

Dana Incorporated • $95K — $115K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Minimum 5 years in a senior-level accounting or finance role
  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
  • Professional accounting designation (CA, CMA, CGA) preferred; MBA is a plus
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills for interaction with all levels
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word; Hyperion experience preferred
  • Excellent analytical skills and strong attention to detail
  • Proven problem-solving ability and capacity to manage multiple deadlines.

Responsibilities

  • Oversee financial reporting, tax packages, and internal controls
  • Prepare financial reports, forecasts, and profit/expense statements
  • Communicate with departmental managers for timely reporting
  • Contribute to strategy development ensuring financial integrity
  • Promote continuous improvement and best practices within operations
  • Align financial strategies with corporate goals and U.S. GAAP compliance
  • Maintain risk management controls and conduct business analysis.

Benefits

  • Professional development opportunities
  • Collaborative team environment
  • Exposure to senior management and cross-functional teams
  • Involvement in key strategic initiatives
  • Dynamic and growing workplace culture
Full Job Description
Job Purpose

As a Plant Controller, you will oversee financial reporting, tax packages, internal controls, and cost accounting. You will prepare financial reports, forecasts, and statements, and communicate with departmental managers to complete various reports. Your role involves strategy development, promoting continuous improvement, and aligning financial strategies with corporate goals. You will maintain risk management controls, provide business analysis, and prepare the annual business plan. Month-end duties, account reconciliations, and involvement in audits are also key responsibilities. Strong analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills are essential.

Job Duties and Responsibilities
• Responsible for all financial reporting, tax packages, internal controls, and cost accounting.
• Prepare all financial reports, trial balance forecasts, profit and expense statements, and other reports supporting cost control.
• Communicate with all departmental managers in order to complete daily, weekly, monthly, and year-end reports for operations and division management.
• Assist in strategy development in the operations to ensure financial integrity.
• Push continuous improvement and best practices deployment throughout the operations.
• Organize financial vision and strategies that are in alignment with the overall strategic direction of the corporation and compliance with U.S. GAAP.
• Maintain adequate risk management-based internal controls.
• Provide business analysis on trends, issues, and developments that could impact the operation.
• Prepare annual business plan.
• Month-end duties involving journal entries, HFM inputting, and ad-hoc reporting.
• Prepare quarterly and year-end reports.
• Prepare monthly account reconciliations.
• Work directly with Dana's corporate accounting group to provide financial and other information as requested.
• Involved with internal and external audits, transfer price studies, and fixed asset maintenance.

Education and Qualifications
• Minimum of 5 years' experience in senior-level accounting or finance role.
• Strong interpersonal skills to work with people at all levels within and outside Dana in a professional manner and the ability to work in a team environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication and organizational skills
• Demonstrated computer proficiency using Microsoft Excel and Word; Hyperion experience preferred
• Must be a self-starter and able to work with minimal supervision
• Excellent knowledge of accounting systems and control elements.
• Strong financial and business background with strong analytical skills.
• Working knowledge of business law.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to work with a high degree of accuracy.
• Strong analytic skills and proven aptitude for numbers.
• Proven problem-solving skills and the ability to handle multiple projects and deadlines
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
• A professional accounting designation (CA, CMA, CGA).
• MBA preferred.

About Dana Incorporated

Dana Incorporated is a global supplier of drivetrain and e-propulsion systems for passenger cars, commercial vehicles, and off-highway equipment. The company's products include axles, driveshafts, transmissions, and electrodynamic technologies. Dana Incorporated serves customers in the automotive, commercial vehicle, and off-highway markets. The company operates through four segments: Light Vehicle Driveline Technologies, Commercial Vehicle Driveline Technologies, Off-Highway Drive and Motion Technologies, and Power Technologies. Dana Incorporated was founded in 1904 and is headquartered in Maumee, Ohio.
Learn more about Dana Incorporated
Size
38,000 employees
Market Cap
$3.7 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$31 million
5 Year Trend
+3.2%
Revenue
$7.1 billion

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