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**Plant Controller**
**Job Summary** **:**
This important role serves as the finance business partner for the Plant Management team\. The role includes overall ownership for financial costing and reporting processes used at the plant, ensuring the plant leadership team understands the impact of operating performance on financial results, and driving a culture of continually improving both operating performance and financial processes while building and maintaining strong relationships with the plant leadership team\.
**Job Responsibilities:**
+ Refine and maintain key performance indicators closely linked with financial results
+ Own all plant accounting activities, including material, labor, scrap and plant overhead\. Develop and/or maintain key reporting tools to ensure accuracy and identify key drivers of results\.
+ Oversee the budgeting and other key FP&A processes for the plant and Purchasing; maintain and improve grounds\-up cost models which drive both accurate forecasting and performance measurement
+ Analyze capital spending projects within overall Supply Chain; support cost/benefit analysis by calculating ROI/NPV and maintaining the capital budget
+ Provide ad\-hoc analysis as necessary enabling team to understand expected financial impact of proposals
+ Own the annual standard cost update process
+ Work with Inventory Control group to review cycle count adjustments; ensure root cause has been identified and corrected
+ Oversee purchase price variance \(PPV\) and cash discounts reporting for Purchasing stakeholders
+ Provide cost estimates to support new product initiatives as necessary; review and approve costing on all new SKU’s, raw materials and purchased finished goods
+ Manage and develop two direct reports
+ Drive a culture of continuous improvement
**Scope:**
This position has the responsibility to influence strategic and tactical decisions for the site and Purchasing organization, as well as advise, assist and influence senior management on significant financial decisions outside of this scope\. This position is exposed to confidential financial statements, product costs, payroll and the strategic initiatives of the Company\.
**Minimum Requirements:**
+ Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting; significant Accounting coursework required\.
+ 10\-15 years total finance experience, including experience in a plant finance environment
+ Proven record of success as a strategically\-oriented financial manager with knowledge of cost accounting, production planning and operations analysis
+ Strong analytical and proven statistical knowledge and experience required\.
+ Excellent systems skill, including MS Office, especially Excel, as well as ERP system experience, preferably Oracle\.
**Notice:** This position is subject to a criminal background check and potentially and an education verification as part of the application process\. At the time of interview, internal and external applicants will be required to sign a release authorizing the company to conduct criminal background check and/or education verification
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**About Yankee Candle**
Yankee Candle is a leading designer, manufacturer, wholesaler and retailer of premium scented candles, based on sales\. Yankee Candle participates in the $25 billion global candle and home fragrance market\. Yankee Candle has a 46\-year history of offering distinctive products and marketing them as affordable luxuries and consumable gifts\. Yankee Candle sells its products through a North American wholesale customer network of approximately 35,000 store locations, a growing base of Yankee Candle owned and operated retail stores, direct mail catalogs, and its Internet website \(www\.yankeecandle\.com\)\. Outside of North America, Yankee Candle sells its products primarily through an international wholesale customer network of over 6,000 store locations and distributors covering over 50 countries on a combined basis\.
**About** **Jarden Corporation**
Jarden Corporation is a leading provider of a diverse range of consumer products with a portfolio of over 120 trusted, quality brands sold globally\. Jarden operates in three primary business segments through a number of well recognized brands, including: Outdoor Solutions: Abu Garcia®, Aero®, Berkley®, Campingaz® and Coleman®, ExOfficio®, Fenwick®, Gulp\!®, Invicta®, K2®, Marker®, Marmot®, Mitchell®, Penn®, Rawlings®, Shakespeare®, Stearns®, Stren®, Trilene®, Volkl® and Zoot®; Consumer Solutions: Bionaire®, Breville®, Crock\-Pot®, FoodSaver®, Health o meter®, Holmes®, Mr\. Coffee®, Oster®, Patton®, Rival®, Seal\-a\-Meal®, Sunbeam®, VillaWare® and White Mountain®; and Branded Consumables: Ball®, Bee®, Bernardin®, Bicycle®, Billy Boy®, Crawford®, Diamond®, Dicon®, Fiona®, First Alert®, First Essentials®, Hoyle®, Kerr®, Lehigh®, Lifoam®, Lillo®, Loew Cornell®, Mapa®, NUK®, Pine Mountain®, Quickie®, Spontex® and Tigex®\. Headquartered in Norwalk, CT, Jarden ranks \#348 on the Fortune 500 and has over 25,000 employees worldwide\. For further information about Jarden, please visit www\.jarden\.com\.
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COMPANY: The Yankee Candle Company, Inc
**Requisition Id:** 107276
**Location:** MA \- Whately