Controller I

Job Location and Schedule

Onsite: Keene, NH - 2 days a week

Job Overview

The Keene Plant Controller is the financial backbone of a ~***M opto-mechanical defense and imaging manufacturing operation, owning the integrity of the plant's financials from the shop floor up.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure the integrity of the plant's financials, focusing on internal controls such as SOX, inventory, and revenue-cycle safeguards over a large, WIP-heavy balance sheet.
• Manage cost accounting processes including standard costing, BOMs, work orders, and manufacturing variance analysis.
• Conduct managerial accounting tasks such as product-line and program margin analytics, absorption, and the monthly plant P&L, inventory, and capital forecast.
• Partner directly with Operations to connect financial results to production performance, distinguishing real cost improvements from mix.
• Challenge assumptions unsupported by manufacturing data and deliver audit-ready reporting and honest, decision-useful analysis to leadership.

Qualifications

We're looking for candidates with:

• 7 years of experience in cost and managerial accounting within a complex discrete-manufacturing environment.
• A demonstrated track record of building and enforcing rigorous internal controls.
• Strong ERP/MES fluency.
• The instinct to raise hard questions before a variance becomes a surprise.