Manufacturing Controller

Phyton Talent Advisors

📍Concord, NC
Posted May 18, 2026
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Job Overview

Position

Manufacturing Controller

Company

Phyton Talent Advisors

Location

Concord, NC

Work Type

On-site

Job ID

li-4416404083

Job Description

Controller | Manufacturing Finance

This role serves as a key financial business partner to operations leadership, driving financial performance, reporting accuracy, and strategic decision-making across the production unit.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead
financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, reporting, and month-end close

• Partner with operations leadership to provide financial analysis and business insights

• Oversee
cost accounting, inventory accounting, standard costing, accruals, and variance analysis

• Manage
general ledger reconciliations, fixed assets, CAPEX reporting, and internal controls

• Support
ERP systems, process improvements, and business transformation initiatives

Qualifications:

•
10+ years of finance/accounting experience
with
5+ years in manufacturing or plant finance leadership

• Strong background in
manufacturing finance, cost accounting, inventory, and standard costing

• Experience with
ERP/MRP systems
such as
Infor M3, BPCS, SAP, Oracle, or similar

• CPA, MBA, preferred

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Practice Questions

💡Technical Questions (3)
  • 1.Can you walk me through your approach to analyzing and resolving a significant unfavorable variance in a standard costing environment?
  • 2.How do you ensure accuracy and maintain internal controls during a fast-paced manufacturing month-end close?
  • 3.Describe your experience implementing or upgrading ERP/MRP systems in a manufacturing setting. How did you ensure the financial data integrity during the transition?
🎯Behavioral Questions (3)
  • 1.Tell me about a time when you had to act as a true financial business partner to operations leadership to turn around an underperforming production unit.
  • 2.Give me an example of a time you led a process improvement or business transformation initiative within a manufacturing finance team.
  • 3.Describe a situation where you had to push back on an operations leader regarding a capital expenditure request or cost assumption.
🧩Situational Questions (2)
  • 1.Imagine the plant manager wants to push forward a significant capital expenditure for new equipment, but the current ROI doesn't meet our corporate hurdle rate. How would you handle this?
  • 2.You notice a sudden, unexpected spike in raw material inventory at the end of the quarter, but operations assures you everything is normal. What are your next steps?

Resume Keywords

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Manufacturing FinanceCost AccountingStandard CostingVariance AnalysisMonth-End CloseInventory AccountingCAPEX ReportingERP ImplementationFinancial Business PartnerInternal ControlsGeneral Ledger Reconciliation

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