Novelis is one of the world leaders in aluminum recycling and rolling and a leading sustainable aluminum solutions provider. Driven by our purpose of shaping a sustainable world together, we work alongside our customers to provide innovative solutions to the aerospace, automotive, beverage packaging and specialty markets. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Novelis has approximately 13,000 employees in 32 operating facilities on 4 continents.

Novelis North America (NNA) is seeking a Plant Controller to join the leadership team at our Bay Minette, AL fully integrated facility. This role has a wide range of responsibilities including handling all plant controlling and internal controls activities to ensure accurate financial results and provide management with the necessary information required to make sound business decisions. This role is responsible for forecasting and leading plant operational expenses and managing spend related to capital projects. This role will report to the Regional Controller.

Responsibilities

• Be an active member of the core plant management team providing guidance to non-financial team members.
• Prepare and record monthly accounting entries and conduct all required reconciliations to ensure closing process meets company deadlines with accurate information.
• Prepare plant financial reports including monthly summaries for regional reporting along with monthly analysis of spending to plant management team.
• Prepare quarterly reports to corporate accounting for quarter end financial reporting.
• Develop and run annual plan and quarterly forecast for the plant.
• Supervise and report capital expenditures to plant management team and region management.
• Provide oversight and coordination of accounting functions related to sustaining and strategic capital projects including preparation of financial justifications.
• Perform monthly and ad hoc variance analysis to find opportunities and possibilities for improvement in financial performance and be able to discuss findings with senior management.
• Participate in cross-functional events including Novelis Operating System (NOS) productivity and loss teams.
• Ensure that periodic fixed asset verification is performed, and proper documentation maintained.
• Periodically review internal processes for improvement in timeliness, accuracy, and efficiency automating these processes where feasible.
• Identify growth opportunities or training needs for continual staff development.
• Adopt and promote the Novelis cultural beliefs of Be Open, Build Trust, Say Anything, Be Authentic.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business Administration from an accredited college or university is required.
• Minimum 8 years with 3 years of management experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Must have a strong understanding of generally accepted accounting principles, cost accounting experience in a manufacturing environment preferred.
• Be a role model for leading and developing a positive, team-oriented culture.
• Ability to perform work accurately and independently.
• Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information.
• Proficient in Microsoft office programs.
• Excellent verbal, math, and writing skills.

Preferred qualifications

• Master’s degree, CPA/CMA is a plus.
• SAP and OneStream experience is a plus.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to convey and explain complex policies and guidelines.

What We Offer:

Novelis' benefits say a lot about how we care for each other. Our employees and their families have many different needs. As a result, our benefits offer choices on many levels and are high in quality, driven by the marketplace, and affordable. In addition to core benefits, we provide these unique to the industry benefits:

• Family Growth Programs: Paid parental Leave, Adoption Assistance, Fertility Treatment, Childcare Discount and Nursing Mom Support
• Employee Assistance Programs: free resources available 24/7 to you and your family in the areas of mental health, family life, and career and financial guidance
• Wellness Programs: incentives for wellness activities, wellness spending account, programs for building healthy habits, virtual physical therapy for joint, back, and pelvic health, health management programs and more.
• Diabetes Management Program
• Pet insurance
• Identity Theft Protection
• PerkSpot Discount Program
• Tuition assistance and career development programs

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Novelis' newly announced Bay Minette facility will be located 35 miles northeast of Mobile AL and 45 miles west of Pensacola FL and is expected to create approximately 1000 high-paying advanced careers in modern manufacturing. This highly advanced rolling and recycling facility will be the first of its kind. It will primarily serve our customers in the beverage can and automotive markets. Novelis is committed to the community and will actively build partnerships in Baldwin County focused on recycling STEM education and workforce development. At Novelis we believe our culture of collaboration is our competitive advantage and we would love for you to consider building a career with us.

Novelis recognizes its talented and diverse workforce as a key competitive advantage. Novelis provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants. All terms and conditions of employment at Novelis including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoffs recalls transfers leaves of absence compensation and training are without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal provincial or local laws.

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