Assistant Controller

Assistant Controller Job Description This Assistant Controller position supports a manufacturing site by leading core operational accounting activities and providing critical financial insight to site management and divisional leaders. The role focuses on full-cycle month-end close, budgeting, forecasting, and detailed financial analysis to improve profitability and support informed decision-making. The Assistant Controller will collaborate closely with operational and finance leaders, develop and maintain financial standards, and ensure accurate reporting and compliance with internal and external requirements. Responsibilities

- Assist in preparing monthly and annual financial reports for site management and divisional leaders, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timeliness.
- Collaborate with site and division leaders to prepare monthly financial forecasts that reflect current operational and business trends.
- Perform full-cycle month-end close activities, including journal entries, accruals, and financial reporting, and ensure adherence to corporate deadlines and standards.
- Prepare and track departmental budgets, including revenue, margins, capital expenditures, and headcount, and support leaders in managing to budget.
- Monitor and analyze revenues, margins, product costing, scrap, variances, and other expenses to explain financial performance and identify opportunities to improve profitability.
- Create and maintain annual labor and overhead standards that support accurate costing and financial planning.
- Perform inventory analysis, including monitoring inventory reserves, and ensure appropriate valuation and risk assessment.
- Complete month-end account reconciliations and prepare other required corporate reports to support accurate financial statements.
- Provide support for internal and external audits by preparing schedules, responding to inquiries, and ensuring proper documentation.
- Work closely with operational teams in a manufacturing environment to translate financial data into actionable insights and recommendations.
- Participate in ongoing process improvements within the accounting function to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and control.

Essential Skills

- At least 5 years of operational accounting experience, ideally in a Senior or Assistant Controller-level role.
- Experience working in the manufacturing industry, with familiarity in plant or site-level accounting.
- Strong general ledger accounting skills, including full-cycle month-end close.
- Proficiency in preparing and reviewing account reconciliations.
- Experience with inventory accounting, including valuation and reserve analysis.
- Experience with cost accounting, including product costing and standard setting.
- Ability to analyze revenues, margins, scrap, variances, and other key financial metrics.
- Strong collaboration skills with site and divisional leaders for budgeting and forecasting.
- Ability to support internal and external audit processes with accurate and well-organized documentation.
- Attention to detail and strong analytical skills to interpret financial data and explain results.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

- Experience supporting or leading budgeting processes for departments, including revenue, margins, capital expenditures, and headcount.
- Experience creating or maintaining annual labor and overhead standards in a manufacturing environment.
- Comfort working in a role that takes on core responsibilities typically held by a site-level team lead.
- Willingness to learn and take advantage of extensive training and mentorship opportunities.
- Strong communication skills to clearly explain financial results and help "tell the story" behind the numbers.
Job Type & Location
This is a Contract position based out of St. Louis Park, MN.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $50.00 - $65.00/hr. Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job
classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be
subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits
available for this temporary role may include the following:

Medical, dental & vision
Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
401(k) Retirement Plan Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
Short and long-term disability
Health Spending Account (HSA)
Transportation benefits
Employee Assistance Program
Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
Job Type & Location
This is a Contract position based out of St. Louis Park, MN.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on Nov 17, 2026.
Workplace Type
This is a fully onsite position in St. Louis Park,MN.

About Aston Carter

Aston Carter provides world-class corporate talent solutions to thousands of clients across the globe. Specialized in accounting, finance, human resources, talent acquisition, procurement, supply chain and select administrative professions, we extend the capabilities of industry-leading companies. We draw on our deep recruiting expertise and expansive network to meet the evolving needs of our clients and talent community with agility and excellence. With offices across the U.S., Canada, Asia Pacific and Europe, Aston Carter serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® Platinum Award winner for both client and talent service.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

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