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The Wilton Factory Business Controller is a strategic finance partner responsible for driving financial transparency, discipline, and insight across operating expenses, headcount planning, and long-term capacity projections. This role leads Opex and workforce planning during the annual planning and long-range planning cycles, ensuring alignment between operational capacity, labor strategies, and financial outcomes. The position owns monthly close, actuals, and forecasting for labor and Opex, with a strong focus on analyzing production work order variances and clearly communicating cost drivers, trends, and risks to Business Line leadership. The Business Controller develops and maintains labor rate assumptions and applies them consistently across planning, forecasting, and business case support, enabling informed decision making around investments, productivity initiatives, and growth. Acting as a trusted advisor to Operations and Business Lines, this role connects financial results to operational performance, supports data driven decisions, and continuously improves planning, forecasting, and reporting processes to support sustainable long term business performance.
Job Responsibility
Lead Opex and headcount planning activities during the annual planning and long-range planning cycles, partnering closely with Operations and Business Line (BL) leaders
Develop and maintain workforce and headcount plans aligned to production volume, productivity assumptions, and long-term capacity requirements
Translate operational capacity plans into financial forecasts, identifying cost drivers, risks, and opportunities
Build multi-year labor and capacity models to support strategic planning, investment decisions, and scenario analysis
Assess labor demand versus supply, identifying gaps and efficiency opportunities to support sustainable growth
Partner with operations to ensure workforce projections are aligned with production strategies and capital plans
Own monthly financial close activities for labor Coverage, PWO and Opex, including analysis of actuals versus forecast and plan
Prepare and present monthly forecast updates, highlighting key variances, trend drivers, and risks to outlook
Ensure forecast accuracy through continuous refinement of assumptions related to labor rates, productivity, and volumes
Analyze production work order variances, including labor efficiency, rate, and volume impacts
Clearly communicate variance drivers and corrective actions to Business Lines and operational leaders
Develop standardized reporting to provide visibility into cost performance and operational effectiveness
Develop and maintain annual labor rate assumptions, including direct, indirect, facility and any other burdened cost components
Provide labor cost inputs for business cases, investment proposals, make/buy decisions, and productivity initiatives
Support continuous improvement projects by quantifying financial benefits and tracking realization
Act as a trusted finance partner to one of the three "Mini-Factories" (TBD) and BL leaders, providing insights that enable informed operational and strategic decisions
Create concise, executive-level reporting and presentations linking financial performance to operational outcomes
Drive process improvements in planning, forecasting, and reporting to improve timeliness and accuracy
Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
Minimum 6 years of relevant experience
FSAP manufacturing experience preferred
Strong competence with tools, systems, and analytical methods used in cost accounting and financial analysis
Fluent in English
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Ability to translate and statistically analyze data and present findings clearly in written, graphical, or verbal formats
Strong customer-service orientation and ability to build effective relationships
Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and email systems
Ability to confidently present information and respond to questions from managers, clients, and other stakeholders
Ability to read, interpret, and analyze data, reports, and financial documents
Ability to work under deadlines, adapt to new information, and interact effectively with others
Physical capability to perform routine office tasks, occasional lifting up to 20 lbs, and movement across campus as needed
ability to travel depending on business requirements
Ability to maintain focus in moderate noise environments and handle tasks requiring close, color, peripheral, and depth vision as needed