Our Finance team is looking for a Financial Controller to support KION North America’s operations in Summerville, SC. This position will be an integral part of the Finance team reporting directly to the Plant Controlling Manager. Working closely with executives and leadership team members in manufacturing, the ultimate goal for this position is to improve profitability and drive efficiency gains within and between operational functions.

We offer:

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Continuously improve processes at the interface between finance and operations.
• Ensure proper general ledger account and cost center usage when coding for factory purchase requisitions.
• Drive / lead cross-functional budgeting and spend reviews.
• Ensure compliance with CAPEX budget and support CAPEX requesters with profitability calculations of investments and challenge assumptions.
• Lead the capital asset tagging process and fixed asset audits as needed.
• Review production order variances with operations teams and help drive to root cause.
• Perform and/or support monthly costing process and perform ad-hoc new material costing requests.
• Closely monitor the production inventory value and reach times.
• Support the operations team with the inventory count.
• Implement and track finance relevant KPIs that complement existing operational KPIs to detect unrealized efficiencies, cost savings potentials and opportunities for productivity improvements.
• Maintain labor/overhead/machine rates for production routings.
• Support the finance team with month-end close processes as needed.
• Support the annual budget and mid-term planning process as well as monthly P&L forecasts for operations.
• Perform and/or support make-or-buy calculations, and ad-hoc financial analytics as requested by executive and leadership team.

Tasks and Qualifications:

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s in Finance or Business
• Advanced MS Excel user
• Business mindset, interest in business beyond the numbers
• Strong communication skills
• Very proactive, self-motivated and process oriented
• Hands-on mentality

Preferred:

• SAP knowledge
• At least 5 years of experience in a Financial role in an operations environment
• Continuous Improvement mindset / certification
• Experience working for an international company