Manager, Site Controller

Regal Rexnord•Union Grove, WI

7d•Onsite

About The Position

This dynamic, strategic leadership role is responsible for overseeing financial management and operational controls at our Union Grove site. This is a fully onsite role, Monday through Friday. As a key business partner to the local operations team, the position plays a critical part in driving financial performance, ensuring fiscal discipline, and enabling strategic decision‑making through robust analysis, forecasting, and financial insight. This role leads financial reporting, cost management, and variance analysis—providing leadership with actionable insights that improve efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance profitability. The position will also work proactively with site leadership to develop and deploy operational metrics, identify improvement opportunities, and implement sustainable financial strategies aligned with long‑term business objectives.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance required; CPA preferred.
Minimum of 7 years of progressive experience in financial/accounting functions—industrial manufacturing experience strongly preferred.
Prior leadership experience preferred.
Experience with Oracle, Oracle Hyperion Financial Management (HFM), and OneStream strongly preferred.
Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office applications with expert-level Excel skills.
Excellent ability to clearly and concisely communicate complex financial information.
Strong professional skepticism with the ability to validate data accuracy and draw meaningful conclusions.
Ability to influence across functions and multiple locations.
Continuous improvement mindset.
Results-driven with the ability to meet business-critical deadlines.
Problem Solving and Critical Thinking: Demonstrates solid problem-solving skills and critical thinking abilities, maintaining a continuous improvement mindset and proactively driving change.
Communication Skills: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, capable of influencing and engaging stakeholders at all levels.
Safety Orientation and Compliance: Demonstrates a strong commitment to safety and adherence to policies and procedures set forth by the State Department.
Project Management: Ability to manage workload and priorities to meet milestone dates and stretch goals, and to monitor projects through a gated process.
Interpersonal Skills and Teamwork: Excellent interpersonal skills fostering teamwork and collaboration, developing high-quality working relationships to influence, gain support, and achieve results. This includes cooperation with operations, supply chain, product management, engineering, as well as external customers and vendors.
Results-Oriented and Self-Motivated: Self-directed and motivated, effectively managing time and multiple priorities to meet deliverables in a timely manner.
Software Proficiency: Intermediate to advanced proficiency with Oracle, Oracle Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) and OneStream and MS Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
Confidentiality and Integrity: Demonstrated ability to maintain confidentiality and handle proprietary and sensitive information with integrity.
Role model for Integrity, Responsibility, Diversity, Engagement & Inclusion, Customer Success, Innovation with Purpose, Continuous Improvement, Performance, Passion to Win, and Sense of Urgency.
Regularly communicates the Core Values and reinforces accountability and alignment of behaviors.
Candidates must be eligible to work in the United States without requiring company sponsorship to obtain or keep U.S. work authorization.

Responsibilities

Summarize and present financial results, highlighting key sales and cost drivers.
Lead variance analysis to key benchmarks (budget, forecast, prior year, etc.) and clearly communicate key assumptions and inputs to site leadership to ensure alignment with performance objectives.
Partner closely with site leaders to provide impactful financial analysis supporting operational and strategic decision-making.
Develop and deploy operational metrics that support daily business management while proactively managing costs and working capital for sustainable improvement.
Conduct regular financial reviews and provide assessments and recommendations to site leadership.
Lead or facilitate cost‑out and profit improvement initiatives.
Partner with operations teams to support make/buy decisions, capital investments, inventory management, ad‑hoc analysis, and other key needs.
Lead inventory standard costing and margin analysis activities, including the annual standards roll and physical inventory processes.
Perform ad‑hoc financial analysis and special projects to help the business understand performance and identify opportunities for improvement.
Collaborate with central accounting to maintain an effective internal controls environment.