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Leggett & Platt’s overall mission is a commitment to enhance lives – by delivering quality products, offering empowering and rewarding careers, and doing our part in bringing about a better future.
Leggett & Platt’s inventive heritage and leadership span more than 130 years. Leggett & Platt has divisions that design, manufacture, and sell a variety of products for all areas of life. Our reliable product development and launch capability, coupled with our global footprint, make us a trusted partner for customers in the automotive, furniture, hydraulic cylinders, flooring, textile and geo components industries.
Learn more about the history of Leggett & Platt: Precision Hydraulic Cylinders
Precision Hydraulic Cylinders is committed to providing comprehensive design, service, and support to OEM’s during all phases of development, testing, and production to ensure smooth integration and superior product performance.
As leading providers of a wide variety of hydraulic cylinders, we operate within a global marketplace. Offering all our OEM clients a customized solution, we pride ourselves on being able to tailor what we do to meet the changing needs of our clients. Whether you need a change in volume or a tighter deadline, we will always do our utmost to get the job done to the highest possible standard.
Learn more about Precision Hydraulic Cylinders: role can sit either in Beulaville, NC or Wilmington, NC
Position Summary
The Plant Controller – Manufacturing Finance is a key finance leader responsible for ensuring the integrity of the Company’s manufacturing cost model while serving as the financial business partner to plant operations. This role owns the financial governance of manufacturing master data—including bills of material, routings, labor standards, machine rates, and overhead structures—to ensure product costs accurately reflect how products are manufactured.
This position partners closely with Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Purchasing, Sales, and IT to improve costing accuracy, profitability, and operational decision-making. The role also supports financial reporting, internal controls, and accounting activities.
The successful candidate combines strong manufacturing finance expertise with technical curiosity, operational understanding, and a passion for improving systems and business processes.
Why This Role?
This position offers an opportunity to make a significant impact on plant profitability while developing into a broader finance leadership role. The successful candidate will work closely with Operations leadership and senior finance management, gaining exposure to both manufacturing finance and corporate controllership responsibilities with a clear path for future advancement.
Primary Responsibilities
Manufacturing Costing & Data Governance
- Own the integrity and accuracy of the Company’s manufacturing cost model.
- Ensure bills of material, routings, labor standards, work centers, machine rates, overhead rates, and standard costs accurately reflect manufacturing operations.
- Lead standard cost development, annual cost rolls, and ongoing cost maintenance.
- Establish governance processes to ensure engineering and manufacturing changes are appropriately reflected within the ERP system.
- Perform routine audits of manufacturing master data and drive corrective actions.
- Develop processes that improve the long-term accuracy and sustainability of product costing.
- Analyze manufacturing variances, including labor, material, overhead, purchase price, and production variances.
- Identify profitability improvement opportunities through detailed cost and margin analysis.
- Develop KPIs and dashboards supporting labor productivity, scrap, material utilization, and operational performance.
- Provide financial insights supporting capital investments, continuous improvement initiatives, and operational decision-making.
- Ensure the cost foundation supporting commercial quoting and profitability analysis remains accurate and reliable.
- Partner with Engineering to ensure product designs and manufacturing changes are accurately translated into ERP master data.
- Collaborate with Operations to improve manufacturing efficiency and eliminate cost drivers.
- Support Supply Chain and Purchasing by analyzing material cost trends and sourcing opportunities.
- Work closely with IT to improve ERP functionality, reporting, automation, and data integrity.
- Serve as the finance subject matter expert on manufacturing costing throughout the organization.
- Support month-end close activities, account reconciliations, inventory valuation, and financial reporting.
- Assist with budgeting, forecasting, and annual operating plans.
- Ensure compliance with accounting policies, internal controls, and audit requirements.
- Gradually assume broader accounting and financial leadership responsibilities from the U.S. Controller.
- Lead initiatives that improve costing accuracy, reporting efficiency, and financial visibility.
- Simplify manual processes through automation and improved system utilization.
- Develop standardized costing methodologies and governance practices that can be consistently applied across manufacturing locations.
- Drive a culture of continuous improvement by leveraging data to identify and implement operational and financial enhancements.
Our values speak to our shared beliefs, and describe how we approach working together.
- Put People First reflects our commitment to safety and care of each other, learning and development, and creating an environment of mutual respect, empathy and belonging.
- Do the Right Thing focuses us on acting with honesty and integrity, delivering the results the right way, taking pride in our work, and speaking the truth – good or bad.
- Do Great Work…Together occurs when we engage without hierarchy, collaborate as a team, embrace challenges, and work for the good of all of us.
- Take Ownership and Raise the Bar demonstrates our responsibility to add value and make a difference, challenge the status quo and biases to make things better, foster innovative and creative solutions to drive impact, and explore new perspectives and embrace change.
We\'re actively taking steps to make sure our culture, processes and practices promote equal opportunity for all. Join us!
We welcome and encourage all applicants to apply. We’d love the opportunity to consider you.
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