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About the Role
Standard Bots is seeking a Plant Controller to partner with manufacturing facility leadership. This role is responsible for financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and cost accounting, ensuring financial discipline in operational decisions.
Responsibilities
- Own the plant's full financial reporting: monthly close, variance analysis, and management reporting on plant performance.
- Serve as the primary finance point of contact for the plant during external audits (RSM), providing supporting schedules and documentation.
- Maintain internal controls at the plant level and flag risks or process gaps to corporate Finance.
- Present financial results, forecasts, and cost analyses clearly and confidently to senior leadership.
- Lead budgeting and forecasting for the facility, partnering with the Plant Manager on labor, materials, overhead, and capital planning.
- Evaluate capital expenditure requests and provide financial analysis to support operational decision-making.
- Oversee cost accounting for the plant: standard costs, BOM cost accuracy, landed cost methodology, and labor allocation.
- Analyze manufacturing cost variances and partner with Operations to identify root causes and corrective actions.
- Own inventory valuation, cycle counts, and obsolescence reserve analysis for the facility.
- Partner with Procurement on vendor cost analysis, tariff/duty impact, and supply chain cost trends.
- Provide financial training and guidance to plant operations staff on cost drivers and the financial impact of operational decisions.
- Build a trusted, credible relationship with the Plant Manager and Operations team.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance.
- 5+ years of progressive accounting or finance experience, with at least 2 years in a manufacturing or plant finance role.
- Strong understanding of GAAP, cost accounting, and inventory valuation.
- Experience partnering directly with plant and operations leadership in a dotted-line or matrixed reporting structure.
- Experience with ERP/MRP systems.
- Advanced Excel skills; comfortable building financial models and forecasts from scratch.
- Strong presentation and communication skills.
- Comfortable working independently on-site while maintaining strong alignment with corporate Finance.
Skills
- GAAP
- Cost Accounting
- Inventory Valuation
- ERP/MRP systems
- NetSuite
- Excel
- Financial Modeling
- Forecasting
- Presentation Skills
- Communication Skills
- International Supply Chains
- Tariffs
- Customs/Duty Considerations
- Standard Costing
Location
- Glen Cove, NY
Work Type
- Full-time
- On-site
Experience Level
- 5+ years of progressive accounting or finance experience
- 2+ years in a manufacturing or plant finance role
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
- CPA or CMA preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $150,000 to $170,000
Benefits
- Employee Stock Options
- Paid time off
- Medical/dental/vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- 401(k)
About the Company
- Standard Bots is building the next generation of industrial robots -- hardware that's powerful, affordable, and designed to scale.
- We closed a Series C and we're scaling fast, and building the financial infrastructure to match that growth is critical.