Assistant Controller (Manufacturing)

Location: York, Pennsylvania, USA; onsite at a manufacturing and distribution facility. Schedule: A shift, Monday–Friday; hours may vary. The facility is not climate-controlled, with seasonal temperature exposure and required PPE and department dress code compliance.

Company

Church & Dwight manufactures and distributes consumer products including A&H Cat Litter and A&H Laundry Detergent, with a culture focused on collaboration, ownership, innovation, safety, and environmental responsibility.

What you will do

• Execute plant month-end close activities, including SAP close processes, journal entries, balance-sheet reconciliations, master-data error resolution, and financial reviews.
• Maintain product costing, cost-accounting processes, SAP master data, labor and utility rates, bills of materials, and manufacturing-cost inputs.
• Support annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, and long-range plans by identifying assumptions, risks, opportunities, and performance actions with operations.
• Analyze labor, overhead, direct manufacturing costs, planned-versus-actual spending, efficiencies, and variance reports.
• Lead or support yield improvement, scrap reduction, cost savings, inventory management, working-capital, cycle-count, and obsolete-inventory initiatives.
• Create and maintain Power BI reporting and analytics for manufacturing spending, labor efficiency, material usage, yields, inventory, and overhead costs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field.
• At least 5 years of progressive accounting or finance experience, including at least 3 years of cost accounting experience.
• At least 1 year of finance experience in a manufacturing environment.
• At least 5 years of Microsoft Excel experience, including advanced Excel skills.
• Experience with SAP; SAP S/4HANA is preferred within the required SAP experience.
• Knowledge of production operations, including equipment, materials, and workflow.
• Strong analytical, interpersonal, communication, organizational, time-management, leadership, coaching, mentoring, confidentiality, and prioritization skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, adapt to changing schedules, direct the workforce, and maintain compliance with accounting, safety, and company policies.

Nice to have

• Seven or more years of experience in a fast-paced, multi-business-unit manufacturing environment, including at least five years in cost accounting.
• Prior responsibility for month-end close, forecasting, inventory accounting, and manufacturing-cost reporting.
• Experience supervising or managing finance or accounting employees.
• Power BI usage or the ability to develop proficiency in Power BI.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time position supporting a large manufacturing and distribution facility.
• Daylight shift with Monday–Friday scheduling; hours may vary.
• Required completion of necessary training during the defined introductory period.
• Required adherence to plant safety policies, PPE standards, department dress code, corporate accounting requirements, and applicable policies.
• Position is designed as a pipeline to a Plant Controller role, with expected development toward that role in approximately five to seven years.
• Equal opportunity employer for veterans and individuals with disabilities.