Controller, Kansas City Assembly Plant

In this position...

You will be the finance lead at the Kansas City Assembly Plant, home to the Transit and F-150 trucks.

You will oversee all aspects of the plant finance operation, including budgeting, forecasting, and maintaining a robust internal control environment.  You will be, in effect, the plant CFO.

What you'll do...

• Finance lead for controlling assembly plant labor and overhead budget, and hourly and salary headcount
• Finance representative on plant Operating Committee (OCM)
• Prepare and report plant operating cost performance to OCM on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis
• Responsible for the plant’s month-end close and monthly forecast submission
• Ensure robust and accurate financial analyses to support manufacturing-related decisions
• Develop and track the plant’s efficiency roadmap
• Drive team to achieve competitive costs in all areas of the business
• Act as a business advisor to the plant manager and Operating Committee
• Responsible for the plant’s internal control processes and maintaining a robust control environment
• Lead development of the plant’s manpower planning and monthly submissions
• Tracking and reporting of launch costs
• Lead assessment to align operating pattern strategies with production program and related impact on forecast
• Review and approve purchase orders, credit card purchases, and check requests
• Review and approve all plant-generated non-production projects
• Lead maintenance planning meetings (weekends/holidays / down weeks/shutdown)
• Support recovery of supplier-related quality and delivery cost penalties