Plant Controller

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Plant Controller

Imagine yourself…

Doing meaningful work that makes an everyday impact on the world around you.
Growing your expertise and expanding your skillset with every project.
Owning your ambition and fueling your career growth.
At Hach, a Veralto company, we ensure water quality for people around the world, and every team member plays a vital role in that mission. Our founding vision is to make water analysis better—faster, simpler, greener, and more informative. We accomplish this through teamwork, customer partnerships, passionate experts, and reliable, easy-to-use solutions. As part of our team and the broader Veralto network, you’ll be part of a unique work environment where purpose meets possibility: where you’ll make an immediate, measurable impact on a global scale by enabling the world’s everyday water needs, and where you’ll have opportunities to foster your professional development and fuel your career growth.

Motivated by the highest possible stakes in climate change and global health, we’re working together within a rapidly digitizing industry to find innovative technologies that guarantee the safety of our water and our environment. More about us: https://www.hach.com/about-us

We offer:

Days of vacation
Flexible working hours
Professional onboarding and training options
Powerful team looking forward to working with you
Career coaching and development opportunities
Health benefits
401(k)
Reporting to the Finance Director, Global Operations, the Plant Controller is responsible for supporting the forecasting, budgeting, financial analysis, and strategic partnerships within the Loveland manufacturing facility. The position is further responsible for supporting local financial leadership, guidance, and assistance to various plant leaders in alignment with the Global Ops Finance Director and Controller, North America. This includes conducting financial and business analysis to identify potential problems and recommend solutions, preparing/supporting the development of annual financial budgets for operations, as well as supporting local supply chain and procurement teams with analytics.

This is a new role for Hach so if you are excited by the challenge of creating something new, this could be for you! This role is an individual contributor role at this time and will roll-up sleeves and dive in to data. There is support from a matrixed team for transactional items so this role can focus on the priorities of discovery, collection and analysis of data as well as building important relationships and partnerships.

In this role, a typical day will look like:

Collaborate with Global Operations Finance Director and Controller, North America, as well as Plant leadership to establish standard reporting and KPIs, such as plant reporting packages, productivity, inventory EO reporting

Participate in development of standard process documentation/policies for costing items: standard cost methodology, Overhead Absorption, Variance reporting, etc.

Support Controller, North America and the North America accounting team where appropriate to support submission of accurate financial statements that are compliant with US GAAP and DHR accounting practices

Support Plant Directors with budgeting, forecasting, headcount reporting, and monthly and quarterly variance analyses

Ownership of Loveland capital reporting process, both forecasting and review of project proposals related to Ops

Participates in and helps drive the use of VES/Lean Management Tools and continuous improvement within the Finance organization and the business

Challenges existing processes, systems, reports, data analysis and outputs and with the support of Global Ops Finance Director and Controller, North America, implements necessary changes to create a best-in-class control environment

Develop, coach, manage rewards, set objectives, prepare, and give performance reviews for the local finance team.

Reports to the Global Finance Director, Operations, with dotted line to the Controller, North America

The essential requirements of the job include:

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Finance or Accounting

10+ years’ experience of increasing responsibility in various accounting and finance roles, with specific experience in operations/manufacturing

Must have experience in multi-site, large (over $250M) organization. Experience in global, matrix organization is important.

Experience in implementation of financial accounting systems a plus

Experience with Oracle, Oracle Fusion, Onestream or similar software a plus

Accepts and embraces a stretch culture environment with a positive can-do attitude

Strong interpersonal skills; able to serve as a business partner.

Proficiency in financial analysis; able to identify variations and trends that indicate possible exposures and the need for countermeasures.

Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, and customers.

Hach is proud to part of the Water Quality segment of Veralto (NYSE: VLTO), a $5B global leader dedicated to ensuring access to clean water, safe food and medicine, and trusted essential goods. When you join Verlato's vibrant global network of 16,000 associates, you join a unique culture and work environment where purpose meets possibility: where the work you do has an everyday impact on the resources and essentials we all rely on, and where you’ll have valuable opportunities to deepen your skillset, pursue your ambitions, and grow your career. Together, we’re Safeguarding the World’s Most Vital Resources™—and building rewarding careers along the way.

US ONLY:

The below range reflects the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. An associate’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors, including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, any collective bargaining agreements, and business or organizational needs.

The compensation range for this role is $125,000 - $165,000 USD per year. This job is also eligible for Bonus Pay.
We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

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