Plant Controller at Tennant Company in Eden Prairie, Minnesota

Job Description:

With more than $1B in revenue, Tennant Company is a globally recognized leader in the cleaning equipment industry. For the past 150 years, we have been passionate about developing and manufacturing innovative and sustainable solutions for our customers. At Tennant Company, we are committed to stewardship and creating a cleaner, safer and healthier world. With manufacturing, operations and sales, service, and support functions across the globe, your journey at Tennant can take you places you never expected.

The Plant Controller will be responsible for providing financial support to our largest manufacturing plant located in Golden Valley, MN. As the Plant Controller you will work directly with the site Operations Director and Global Operations Finance Director by acting as the internal business consultant with a focus on connecting the site performance (both financial and operational) to the overall gross margin performance of Tennant. In this role you will be exposed to a variety of activities that may not directly correspond to finance. You will learn about operations and translate what is happening within operations to finance. If you are looking for a role that has both breadth and depth, where you can exercise your leadership and financial acumen tobe a mini-CFO of sorts then this is the role for you.

Responsibilities

• Support the Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost efforts of the site Operations Teams through timely compilation of metrics such as Material % of COGM, Total Rate/Hour, Inventory Turns, and Parts Shortages, as well as analysis like Short and Long-Term Capacity - people and machines, Open Order analysis, and Total Productivity improvement


• Responsible for all areas of accounting related to site manufacturing, including labor, overhead, capital investment, inventory management and related reserves. This includes the monthly close process, related entries, and reconciliations and the continuous improvement of those tasks and activities.


• Responsible for all reporting and analysis of financial results related to site operations.


• Responsible for the preparation of monthly financial forecasts for site manufacturing.


• Responsible for the preparation of the site manufacturing annual operating plan (AOP) and related processes, which includes collaboration with the site Operations Director and support of the Finance Director - Global Operations in the strategic planning process.


• Responsible for inventory financial management through the cycle count process, scrap management, excess & obsolete inventory analysis and inventory turns improvement for the site manufacturing.


• Responsible for engaging with the Plant Controllers (peers), business partners and financial leaders in both the Global Supply Chain and Global Manufacturing areas of Tennant to drive cost improvement initiativesthat improve the total supply chain costs of Tennant (i.e., all areas within cost of sales). The focus is on improvement for overall Tennant and not on any one specific site or metric.


• Leader for all financial process enhancements which includes the implementation of Lean Accounting methodologies, financial continuous improvement activities and participation in site manufacturing kaizen events and a link of those activities to the financial results of the site.


• Provide support to the Global Cost Manager and Global Cost Accounting team for annual and ad hoc standard cost update process (including labor and overhead costs). Support requestsfor internal and external audit reviews (including SOX documentation & reviews) related to Cost of Sales and Inventory. Responsible for the internal controls related to the site manufacturing activities including cycle count and scrap processes.


• Support the OperationsFinance team incontinuous improvement of Tennant IT systems and related management reporting for the manufacturing area of cost of sales. This includes engaging in SAP, Business Warehouse/Business Objects and Excel systems and management reporting enhancements.


• Responsible for engaging with the Plant Controllers (peers) around the globe to ensure consistent accounting processes, analysis and reports are in place throughout Global Manufacturing. In addition, collaboration with the other Plant Controllers (peers) to identify best practices is expected.


• Engagement with the Plant Controllers (peers) at other Operations locations.


• Engagement with the IT Business Support Manager to drive SAP/system improvements in area of responsibility.


• Strong working relationship with other Tennant Finance team members.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in a business related field


• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance preferred


• Minimum 5 years of Finance or Accounting experience in a manufacturing, production, distribution, logistics and/or related environment


• SAP experience


• Previous experience as a Plant Controller preferred


• Extensive experience with cost accounting, general accounting and financial planning and forecasting systems


• CPA, CMA or MBA a plus


• Business Warehouse, Business Objects, Microsoft Power BI experience preferred


• Lean Manufacturing experience and Accounting for Lean preferred


• Ability to travel up to 10%

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Equal Opportunity Employer

Tennant Company is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are made on the basis of individual skill, ability, reliability, productivity, and other factors important to performance. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, physical or mental disability, age, veteran status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity, or any other basis protected by state or federal law or local ordinance.