Plant Controller

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As the Plant Controller for our Melbourne facility, you will provide financial leadership and accounting expertise to the Precision Connections division's management team. Winchester is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Aptiv (NYSE: APTV) a global technology leader, with more than 180,000 people across 124 manufacturing facilities and 12 major technical centers worldwide. This position reports to the Director of FP&A, Precision Connections and will help to drive the team's capabilities for quality and timeliness of decision-making by ensuring accurate financial results accompanied by sound internal controls.

Qualifications & Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business Administration
• Minimum of 7 years of Accounting experience with a demonstrated background of closing the books timely and accurately with minimal or no audit adjustments
• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in a manufacturing environment
• Minimum of 3 years of experience leading teams and managing people
• Strong communication skills for interaction with all levels of the organization
• Technical capability to prepare, analyze, and interpret financial and operational data/reports
• Demonstrated analytical and thinking skills; Intellectual rigor and curiosity; problem-solving capability
• Experience in a high accountability/metrics-driven environment
• Previous working knowledge of Sarbanes-Oxley is a plus

Our values of Accountability, Collaboration, and Empowerment (ACE) guide our every action, enabling us to serve our customers and ourselves passionately.

What will you be Accountable for?

• Manage and improve the daily, weekly, and monthly reporting processes (including ongoing budget and monthly forecasting activities)
• Meet deadlines communicated to the field by the Winchester Finance Leadership Team
• Provide financial analysis, interpretation of variances from budgets, and advice to management to drive actions & opportunities to achieve targets
• Ensure accurate and reliable product cost and inventory valuation
• Ensure adherence to standard accounting principles and practices and the company's stated policies and system of internal controls
• Manage and develop the plant's financial staff by establishing a work environment that encourages individual career development and growth

How will you Collaborate?

Works as a partner to the Director of Finance, Precision Connections as well as plant leadership to help improve the business unit results through informed management decisions based on timely and accurate information. Assists the operating team in developing and driving improvement strategies for the division. Works with the Winchester corporate finance team to ensure an appropriate balance between division priorities and reporting necessary to support the Winchester and Aptiv consolidation and public reporting needs.

What are you Empowered to do?

• Provide advice and counsel to the plant and Hermetics division leadership team on the financial implications of operating strategies, cost control actions, and decisions
• Analyze the business units' results and make recommendations for operating management to maximize the site's profit and cash flow
• Evaluate and manage all plant-level capital investments
• Lead management's efforts in responding to internal audits, Sarbanes Oxley, and other financial and/or internal control review processes conducted for the Precision Connections division
• Make financial presentations of business results to division and corporate management

Communication Systems We Use:

• Google Workspace
• Visual ERP & Smartviews
• BambooHR
• Paycom & ADP
• AwardCo

For a sneak peek into some of our benefits and to learn more about our career opportunities, click here https://www.winconn.com.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities. In addition to federal law requirements, Winchester Interconnect complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.

Winchester Interconnect expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status.

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