<p>Are you a finance leader who thrives in a manufacturing environment and enjoys being a true business partner? We’re seeking a <strong>Plant Controller</strong> to join our team and play a critical role as the voice of the business and trusted advisor to senior leadership. This is a highly visible position with the opportunity to drive change, improve processes, and directly impact plant performance.</p><p><br></p><p>What You’ll Do:</p><ul><li>Lead and manage all financial activities at the plant, including accounts receivable, accounts payable, and cash flow.</li><li>Oversee month-end close and deliver timely, accurate financial reporting in compliance with GAAP.</li><li>Drive robust cost accounting practices, monitoring and analyzing costs, margins, and variances while identifying improvement opportunities.</li><li>Ensure effective internal controls to safeguard company assets.</li><li>Partner with plant management and corporate finance to deliver meaningful financial insights and reports.</li><li>Collaborate with operations to develop KPIs and drive accountability.</li><li>Manage inventory valuation and physical counts.</li><li>Support corporate finance during external audits.</li><li>Identify and implement process improvements across finance and operational reporting.</li></ul><p><br></p>
<p>Our trusted client is seeking a Controller Consultant for a long-term engagement in Port Huron, Michigan. This role is ideal for someone with a strong background in manufacturing environments, advanced analytical abilities, and expertise in cost accounting. The Controller will play a critical role in managing financial processes, including month-end close and reporting, while ensuring accuracy and timeliness. This hybrid role will report directly to the CFO.</p><p><br></p><p>The day-to-day responsibilities include: </p><p><br></p><p>• Oversee financial operations within a manufacturing environment, including cost accounting and cash flow management.</p><p>• Manage ERP systems effectively to ensure seamless financial reporting and data accuracy.</p><p>• Conduct detailed data analysis using advanced Excel skills to support decision-making processes.</p><p>• Prepare journal entries and ensure timely completion of month-end close processes.</p><p>• Utilize the 445 calendar to complete month-end close in four days and submit reporting packages by day five.</p><p>• Develop and maintain accurate cash forecasts to support company operations.</p><p>• Collaborate with stakeholders to analyze financial trends and provide actionable insights.</p><p>• Ensure compliance with financial regulations and internal controls.</p><p>• Generate comprehensive reports for investors and management teams.</p><p>• Continuously refine processes to enhance efficiency and accuracy in financial operations.</p>
We are looking for an experienced and detail-oriented Controller to oversee financial operations within our heavy manufacturing company in Warren, Michigan. This role is vital for maintaining accurate accounting processes, ensuring compliance with financial regulations, and providing strategic insights to support business growth. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in construction accounting, excellent organizational skills, and the ability to manage multiple financial tasks effectively.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Lead monthly financial close processes, including fringe benefit calculations, general ledger reviews, and workers’ compensation assessments.<br>• Oversee bank account reconciliations for payroll, general, and investment accounts, ensuring accuracy and consistency.<br>• Prepare and submit monthly borrowing base reports and AR/AP documentation to financial institutions.<br>• Manage quarterly tax filings, including 940, 941, withholding, and city taxes, along with customer hours reports and labor statistics submissions.<br>• Coordinate the preparation of year-end financial forecasts, bonus calculations, and compliance with tax regulations.<br>• Support audits by preparing necessary documentation for union, tax, and customer reviews.<br>• Process weekly payroll for office staff and maintain up-to-date employee rate information and hiring paperwork.<br>• Handle work-in-progress transactions, safety summaries, and depreciation entries.<br>• Develop and negotiate annual customer rates and assist in collecting overdue invoices.<br>• Manage petty cash, bank deposits, and vehicle registrations, ensuring smooth financial operations.
<p>Our trusted client is seeking an experienced Accounting Manager Consultant for long-term engagement. This hybrid role is located in West Bloomfield, Michigan and will report directly to the Controller. </p><p><br></p><p>The day-to-day responsibilities include: </p><p><br></p><p>• Facilitate month-end close activities by preparing and reviewing expense reports to ensure accuracy and compliance with deadlines.</p><p>• Conduct in-depth expense analyses to identify trends and provide actionable insights for cost optimization.</p><p>• Manage the accounts payable process, ensuring timely invoice processing, payment accuracy, and vendor reconciliations.</p><p>• Oversee the corporate credit card program, including policy compliance, expense report reviews, and monthly reconciliations.</p><p>• Review and approve employee reimbursements and mileage submissions, ensuring adherence to company policies.</p><p>• Administer fixed asset management processes, including acquisitions, depreciation, and disposals, while maintaining compliance with accounting standards.</p><p>• Supervise lease accounting activities, ensuring accurate documentation and compliance with applicable standards.</p><p>• Monitor and reconcile prepaid expenses for proper recognition in financial statements.</p><p>• Implement process enhancements to improve accuracy, efficiency, and internal controls within accounting operations.</p>
<p>We are looking for a Financial Planning & Analysis Manager to join our team in metro Detroit. In this role, you will involved with the financial planning, forecasting, and reporting processes while ensuring data accuracy and compliance with internal controls. This position offers an opportunity to work closely with various teams to drive financial insights and support strategic business decisions.</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p>• Develop monthly forecasts and annual operating plans for income statements, providing detailed analysis and insights to leadership teams.</p><p>• Prepare comprehensive financial reports, including trial balances, journal entry reviews, and account reconciliations, to maintain a strong internal control environment.</p><p>• Collaborate with accounting teams to uphold compliance with internal controls and accounting policies.</p><p>• Create engaging presentations for business reviews, budgets, and planning initiatives, partnering with regional and functional teams to align financial targets with performance.</p><p>• Standardize reporting processes for actuals and forecasts, ensuring accuracy in annual product standards and targets.</p><p>• Conduct due diligence and accounting support for mergers and acquisitions.</p><p>• Assist with external reporting needs, such as board presentations and quarterly reviews.</p><p>• Perform detailed variance analyses on income statements and balance sheets, explaining fluctuations and providing actionable insights.</p><p>• Provide documentation and support for audits, while developing financial models for ad hoc initiatives.</p><p>• Support accounting tasks, including monthly reconciliations and journal entries, ensuring proper documentation and accuracy.</p>
<p>Our client is undergoing a major digital transformation, shifting toward a cloud-native, API-driven infrastructure. They’re looking for a Data Engineer to help build a modern, scalable data platform that supports this evolution. This role will focus on creating secure, efficient data pipelines, preparing data for analytics, and enabling real-time data sharing across systems.</p><p>As the organization transitions from older, legacy systems to more dynamic, event-based and API-integrated models, the Data Engineer will be instrumental in modernizing the data environment—particularly across the bronze, silver, and gold layers of their medallion architecture.</p><p><strong>Key Responsibilities:</strong></p><ul><li>Design and deploy scalable data pipelines in Azure using tools like Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake, DBT, Dagster, Airflow, and Parquet.</li><li>Build workflows to ingest data from various sources (e.g., SFTP, vendor APIs) into Azure Data Lake.</li><li>Develop and maintain data transformation layers (Bronze/Silver/Gold) within a medallion architecture.</li><li>Apply data quality checks, deduplication, and validation logic throughout the ingestion process.</li><li>Create reusable and parameterized notebooks for both batch and streaming data jobs.</li><li>Implement efficient merge/update logic in Delta Lake using partitioning strategies.</li><li>Work closely with business and application teams to gather and deliver data integration needs.</li><li>Support downstream integrations with APIs, Power BI dashboards, and SQL-based reports.</li><li>Set up monitoring, logging, and data lineage tracking using tools like Unity Catalog and Azure Monitor.</li><li>Participate in code reviews, design sessions, and agile backlog grooming.</li></ul><p><strong>Additional Technical Duties:</strong></p><ul><li><strong>SQL Server Development:</strong> Write and optimize stored procedures, functions, views, and indexing strategies for high-performance data processing.</li><li><strong>ETL/ELT Processes:</strong> Manage data extraction, transformation, and loading using SSIS and SQL batch jobs.</li></ul><p><strong>Tech Stack:</strong></p><ul><li><strong>Languages & Frameworks:</strong> Python, C#, .NET Core, SQL, T-SQL</li><li><strong>Databases & ETL Tools:</strong> SQL Server, SSIS, SSRS, Power BI</li><li><strong>API Development:</strong> ASP.NET Core Web API, RESTful APIs</li><li><strong>Cloud & Data Services (Roadmap):</strong> Azure Data Factory, Azure Functions, Azure Databricks, Azure SQL Database, Azure Data Lake, Azure Storage</li><li><strong>Streaming & Big Data (Roadmap):</strong> Delta Lake, Databricks, Kafka (preferred but not required)</li><li><strong>Governance & Security:</strong> Data integrity, performance tuning, access control, compliance</li><li><strong>Collaboration Tools:</strong> Jira, Confluence, Visio, Smartsheet</li></ul>
