Controller, Aerospace

As Controller, Aerospace, you will be part of the US Operations Finance Team, supporting Aerospace Transparencies operations as a member of the Huntsville plant leadership team. You will contribute to and lead performance improvement plans within the facility. Using detailed and insightful analytics, you will identify opportunities to enhance productivity and reduce costs. You will collaborate cross-functionally to ensure alignment, engagement, and progress toward clearly defined project objectives and deliverables.

You will report to the Senior Operations Finance Manager based at the company headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. We ask that you are onsite at our Huntsville Plant in Huntsville, Alabama, four days per week, with occasional travel to other locations. Additionally, you will have direct supervisory responsibility for three team members.

Main Responsibilities
BUSINESS ANALYSIS AND DECISION SUPPORT (Local Partner)

• Participate in plant meetings to provide insight on results, collect information and challenge performance
• Lead plant projects to control costs of production
• Focus on and improving productivity through analytics and cross functional projects including scrap, productivity, capacity use and addressing bottle necks
• Push relevant information and analytics to guide local decision-making and a bias for action
• Support the generation, analysis and explain the drivers for local business units
• Work with Operations Accounting to provide variance analysis and full understanding of plant level results

PLANNING AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT

• Partner with the Operations Supervisor and Analyst in the plant wide budget process coordinating all departments and embedding productivity and cost savings plans and targets
• Partner with the Operations Supervisor and Analyst in developing short- and long-term reliable estimates of the level of expense to be incurred by the plant related to expected volumes
• Complete month end closing activities such as calculation or approval of journal entries, review of