Business Controller – Component Foams Division

Armacell provides numerous and diverse career opportunities.  Add your talent to ours and make a difference around the world!

The year 1954 marked a significant milestone in thermal insulation history. Armstrong’s R&D Project Number 54013, developed by three innovators, evolved into ArmaFlex, the world's first flexible, closed-cell elastomeric foam for equipment insulation. This product revolutionized the insulation industry. Today, 70 years later, ArmaFlex continues to be a pillar of Armacell's success. 

The CF Business Controller works as a key business partner to the US and Canadian CF business unit teams. The role takes responsibility for providing (i) accurate finance-based sales, product and pricing information for the sales and marketing professionals of the CF business unit, (ii) strategic financial analysis of the business, such as impact of pricing, product mix and product cost changes, and (iii) financial analytics as requested to support the decision-making process. The role will support the regional finance team in its efforts to deliver outstanding business unit management reporting and planning, budgeting and forecasting processes for the CF business units, complying with Group and Regional timetables, guidelines and internal controls.

What Armacell can offer you

• Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & wellbeing.

• Financial programs such as 401(k), life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance-based salary incentive programs

• Generous paid time off including 12 holidays and at least 120 hours PTO

• Training and educational resources on our personalized learning

• management system

• Giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

Job Responsibilities:

Financial Insight & Business performance

• Effectively partner with the General Manager and business leadership team to provide expert commercial insight, ensuring appropriate analysis and identification of business opportunities and risk to drive business growth.

• Work with plant management in decision making process that allows for profit maximization or cost minimization.

• Recommend and highlight risks, opportunities, and alternatives in financial proposals.

• Assess customer/product profitability and drive profit optimization through price/mix/cost reduction.

• Monitor pricing at customer and SKU level, preventing price leakages.

Support decision making process

• Develop and assess business cases for new product development, providing insights and support to the business.

• Evaluate business results and serve as a functional expert to the VP Americas, General Manager CF and key staff to provide strategic guidance and insights during the analysis process.

• Make decisions and recommendations to ensure the quality and delivery of all finance-directed products and services.

• Partner with CF business managers and Finance staff to develop costing/profitability models and reports.

• Assess the impact of strategic financial decisions and present recommendations to leadership.

Financial planning and reporting

• Own the development and communication of the strategic plan, budget and forecast, financial reporting, operational analysis and executive reviews for Actuals, Budget and Forecast.

• Provide profitability analysis looking at customer, manufactured location and product-level data.

• Translate analyses into easy-to-understand presentations and visualizations.

• Design, build, and maintain reporting models.

• Identify trends and recommend actions based on sound and thorough analysis.

Capital Expenditures

• Assist Operations team in the preparation of CapEx investments requests and monitor actual spending as well as savings against approved targets.

Working Capital Management

• Optimize working capital by assisting Supply Chain and Plant Controllers in assessments of inventory needs and Country Controllers in account receivable analysis.

Project Management

• Lead critical financial projects for the Component Foams Business in Americas such as SAP enhancements and upgrades, acquisitions, lease vs. buy analysis, decommissioning / asset disposals and financial systems implementation projects.

Job Qualifications and Requirements: