Financial Controller
Avient Corporation (NYSE: AVNT) provides specialized and sustainable material solutions that transform customer challenges into opportunities, bringing new products to life for a better world. Examples include:
• Dyneema®, the world's strongest fiber™, enables unmatched levels of performance and protection for end-use applications, including ballistic personal protection, marine and sustainable infrastructure and outdoor sports
• Unique technologies that improve the recyclability of products and enable recycled content to be incorporated, thus advancing a more circular economy
• Light-weighting solutions that replace heavier traditional materials like metal, glass and wood, which can improve fuel efficiency in all modes of transportation and reduce carbon footprint
• Sustainable infrastructure solutions that increase energy efficiency, renewable energy, natural resource conservation and fiber optic / 5G network accessibility
Avient is certified ACC Responsible Care®, a founding member of the Alliance to End Plastic Waste and certified Great Place to Work®. For more information, visit www.avient.com/. To access Avient's news library online, please visit www.avient.com/news.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
- Partners with plant management to resolve financial related issues, assist and guide them on the method of cost allocation and assessments, supports the budgeting and forecasting process.
- Closing duties, including cost center and account analysis, processes order reviews and corrective actions, adjusts entries and posts recurring entries, distributions and assessments.
- Guides the plant on management of the plant capital spending system and on accounting for fixed assets.
- Sets up and maintains plants and warehouses cost center distribution and assessment in SAP to allocate costs.
- Sets up and maintains plants and warehouses profitability assessment function in SAP to correctly reflect business performance and provide basis for financial analysis.
- Leads collaboration with plant management and regional analysts to ensure that product master data and costs are properly updated and accurate as well as plant books are closed accurately and in a timely manner.
- Manages plant level incentive accrual and metric tracking.
- Performs plant specific analysis to identify trends and control issues that need addressing. Resolves issues through to resolution and communicates fiscal changes/adjustments as needed.
- Coordinating and directing the preparation of the budget and financial forecasts and report variances.
- Develop and document business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls
- Oversee day-to-day accounting operations, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, and general ledger
- Other projects as assigned. Scope: This position has responsibility for 2 plant locations
WHY AVIENT:
At Avient, we strive for a culture of trust and engagement. Our associates are leading company initiatives such as Lead by Women, HYPE (Harnessing Young Professionals), Pride at Avient and Embrace to advance diversity in professional and personal development. We also provide our associates with robust development programs such as Avient Academy, Lean Six Sigma, and various leadership workshops to allow for career growth in a variety of ways. With workplace flexibility, health and wellness programs, and paid time off for community service, we are committed to building upon our positive momentum.
At Avient, we believe diversity of ideas and backgrounds gives us the creativity to be successful in a rapidly changing world. In support of this, we stress equality of opportunity for all qualified individuals in accordance with applicable laws. Decisions in hiring, promotion, development, compensation and advancement are based upon non-discriminatory factors such as, for example, qualifications, abilities, experience, and performance
Avient Corporation is a drug free workplace. Avient is an equal opportunity employer. We maintain a policy of non-discrimination in providing equal employment to all qualified employees and candidates regardless of race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, color, religion, national origin, disability, genetic information, protected veteran’s status, or other legally protected classification in accordance with applicable federal, state and local law.