Regional ControllerSaint-Gobain

At Saint-Gobain, our employees have pride in belonging to an organization whose culture is made up of these core values: Trust, Empowerment, & Collaboration. Our company encourages diversity and inclusion in all its forms while our products make the world a more beautiful, safer, and sustainable home.

• Manage and develop a cohesive regional accounting team across multiple locations. This is to include goal and objective setting as well as the provision for appropriate training.
• Lead the annual compliance statement initiative on internal controls for the group. Additionally, coordinate and review the annual self-assessment for all locations in the region and ensure compliance with SGC and EPG policies and procedures
• Manage the timely completion of the month-end financial close as well as the timely and accurate execution of all reporting requirements.
• Develop, prepare, and/or direct the completion of all post-close financial analyses for both local and Group management. Emphasis will be placed on the Commercial business unit.
• Direct the preparation of the annual operating budget for facilities within the region, ensuring the accuracy of all budget data and proactively challenging any/all budget assumptions.
• Prepare and/or coordinate analysis to better understand the financial ramifications of current and proposed business actions
• Partner with operational management to increase plant efficiency and profitability within the region
• Identify and proactively initiate analyses / solutions to plant issues within the region
• Support the analytical needs of the VP Finance and Group Controller, Director Industrial Controlling, Manager of Cost & Financial Analysis, VP of Operations and Sr Director Regional Operations.
• Review Six Sigma charters and audits of completed projects, ensuring the integrity of the calculations and results

• Bachelor degree in Accounting or Finance , CPA, CMA, or MBA preferable.
• Minimum 8-10 years of progressive cost accounting and analysis experience with a major manufacturing organization. A strong emphasis should be put on knowledge of management accounting, cost and inventory accounting, and GAAP
• A minimum of 5 years at a supervisory level is required as this individual will be responsible for managing several people across multiple sites.
• Strong analytical skills are required to quickly grasp issues impacting the region's financial results
• Strong IT aptitude to deliver effective desktop reporting (paperless web-enabled environment), utilize business warehouse tools and MS Excel and PowerPoint for analysis and presentations
• Excellent communication and presentation skills are required
• Capable of leading a process team and able to define clear vision, goals, and service standards
• Ability to manage projects, direct and manage individuals, work independently, and communicate effectively to all areas and levels of the EPG organization
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships across plant and functional organizations.
• Demonstrated client service orientation
• Job location: Malvern, PA
• Ability to travel up to 50%