Finance Plant Controller, Vineland

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Corning’s businesses are ever evolving to best serve our customers, industries, and consumers. Today, we accelerate and transform life sciences, mobile consumer electronics, optical communications, display, and automotive markets. We are changing the world with:

• Trusted products that accelerate drug discovery, development, and delivery to save lives
• Damage-resistant cover glass to enhance the devices that keep us connected
• Optical fiber, wireless technologies, and connectivity solutions to carry information and ideas at the speed of light
• Precision glass for advanced displays to deliver richer experiences
• Auto glass and ceramics to drive cleaner, safer, and smarter transportation

Role Purpose

Provide financial leadership for the Plant in meeting all financial and managerial accounting requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Manages delivery of internal and external financials for or on behalf of business units and works to ensure the integrity and completeness of all financial deliverables

• Evaluates and manages tracking of financial and/or operational metrics and performances and summarizes findings

• Helps implement audits and serves as a point of escalation for compliance and service-level issues

• Implements and suggests initiatives to improve day-to-day operations (e.g., ORM, IT, business processes) to ensure financial accounting systems are maintained according to reporting requirements

• Ensures that projects are completed in a timely manner and in accordance with established practices and reporting requirements

• Reviews and analyzes financial and budgetary reports for accuracy; contributes to the identification of key insights

• Collaborates cross-functionally to support, explain, and translate financial issues for the operational sides of the business

• Assists Business and Division leaders in the development and maintenance of planning and budgeting processes (forecast budget, 5 year plan), preparation of financial and management reports, procedures, and presentation of findings

• May partner with business leaders to make key operational business decisions; may engage and influence senior management in areas such as cost and product line management

• May supervise a small team, conducts goal setting and performance processes to prioritize and align with overall company and function-wide goals and objectives, coaches talent, and serves as an organizational resource

• Proven ability to successfully manage multiple internal and external financial deliverables for one or more business units, in accordance with controls and accounting requirements

• Experience resolving compliance and reporting issues, providing recommendations to improve processes and guidance to junior colleagues

• Demonstrated success facilitating cross-functional communications to ensure understanding of financial results and timely delivery of deliverables

• Experience managing data collection processes and investigating potential concerns to ensure accuracy and compliance with reporting requirements

• Experience managing one or more components of the planning and budgeting process, in collaboration with the controller and business

• Experience interpreting financial data and recommending alternative solutions and potential risks

• Experience supporting components of unstructured senior management requests, leveraging strategic networks to obtain information and synthesizing key insights

• Experience leveraging and managing relationships with plant and non-Finance teams to strengthen knowledge of production process and to obtain data critical to executing business tasks

Experiences/Education - Required

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or Business Administration
• Knowledge of financial and management accounting
• Strong computer skills, including SAP, Khalix, People Soft
• Ability to be comfortable interacting and communicating with all aspects of the business, including plant staff and senior managers.
• Supervisory experience
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Sound cross functional skills
• Ability to act under pressure in fast-paced environment

Experiences/Education - Desired

• Team player
• Business partner
• Ability to act on initiative
• Customer focused
• Ability to embrace change

This position does not support immigration sponsorship.

The range for this position is $110,942.00 - $152,546.00 assuming full time status. Starting pay for the successful applicant is dependent on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, market demands, experience, training, and education.

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Corning offers you the total package. 

Your well-being is our priority. Our compensation and benefits package supports your health and wellness, financial aspirations, and career from day one.

• Company-wide bonuses and long-term incentives align with key business results and ensure you are rewarded when the company performs well. When Corning wins, we all win.
• As part of our commitment to your financial well-being, we provide a 100% company-paid pension benefit with fixed contributions that grow throughout your career. Combined with matching contributions to your 401(k) savings plan, Corning’s total contributions to your retirement accounts can reach between 7% and 12% of your pay, depending on your age and years of service.
• Our health and well-being benefits include medical, dental, vision, paid parental leave, family building support, fitness, company-paid life insurance, disability, disease management programs, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) to support you and your family.
• Getting paid for our work is important, but feeling appreciated and recognized for those contributions motivates us much more. That’s why Corning offers a recognition program to celebrate successes and reward colleagues who make exceptional contributions.

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Corning is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and considers requests for reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable laws. Individuals with disabilities or sincerely held religious beliefs may request reasonable accommodations to participate in the application or interview process, perform essential job functions, or access other benefits and privileges of employment. To submit a request for reasonable accommodation related to disability or religion, please contact us at [email protected] .