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Job Summary

The Ingersoll Rand Finance Team is seeking a Plant Controller to support our IR Pump Plant, located in Alsip, IL, reporting to the Platform Financial Leader with a dotted line relationship to the local General Manager. This position will lead a small team of financial professionals in the maintenance of existing policies and procedures as well as the deployment of the teams’ resources to address a diverse range of issues and opportunities as they arise.

This role is highly collaborative in nature, requiring excellent communication skills. You will measure success by comparing the Annual Operating Plan (“AOP”), as well as driving revenue growth, margin expansion and net working capital optimization using Ingersoll Rand’s IDX tools and processes. This is achievable within the context of our corporate values of sustainability, diversity and inclusion.

The person filling this role is an individual who has both high regard and passion for manufacturing. They are both inquisitive and pro-active by nature. They seek to understand and develop their own mental model of operations and their implied opportunities. They will develop a strong foundational understanding of the current state while applying collective acumen to drive transformative improvement. They are bold in their aspirations while moving forward with humility and integrity. This is a role for someone who wants to be an active participant in creating our collective futures.

Specific Responsibilities:

• Control Environment: Maintain strong financial controls through strict adherence to all existing SOX narratives and the pro-active partnership with both internal and external audit teams in the identification and resolution of potential current or future gaps.
• Safeguard of Assets: Execute policy and fiduciary responsibilities related to all plant assets.
• Statutory Reporting: Deliver all required financial reporting in alignment with US GAAP, Corporate Policy and consistent practices.
• Managerial Reporting: Provide insightful month end analytical reporting to deliver context and implications of the financial results, trends, risks and opportunities.
• Liaison to Corporate Finance: Facilitate timely and accurate response to requests originating from shared financial services.
• Forecasting / Budgeting: Support the administration of timely and accurate forecasts of plant execution.
• Business Partnership: Participation and leadership in business processes such as IRX (Ingersoll Rand Execution Excellence) for the realization of both tactical and strategic objectives. Assists in developing financial acumen with local leaders.
• Deploy Talent: Foster a work environment that aligns the team in the achievement of corporate objectives while developing personnel and building redundancy to ensure continuity of performance. Uses IR talent processes to recruit, onboard and develop a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative team.

Required Qualifications:

• Ability to drive performance through others and support colleagues in pursuit of the team goal while ensuring a focus on deliverables.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, including the ability influence and coach teams towards financial objectives.
• Strong numerical skills, analytical thinking, careful structured approach applying accounting acumen related to a manufacturing environment.
• B.S. in Accounting, Finance or related Business Concentrations.
• Familiarity and experience with ERP systems, preferably SAP.
• 3 or more years of experience as a controller, preferably in a manufacturing environment.
• <10% travel required.

Preferential Qualifications:

• MBA, CMA, CFA, CPA certification.
• Audit experience.
• SOX expertise and leadership.
• High competency with Excel, HFM, Essbase, data warehouses, and other business systems.
• Successful record of Results driven project management.

Ingersoll Rand Inc. (NYSE:IR), driven by an entrepreneurial spirit and ownership mindset, is dedicated to helping make life better for our employees, customers and communities. Customers lean on us for our technology-driven excellence in mission-critical flow creation and industrial solutions across 40+ respected brands where our products and services excel in the most complex and harsh conditions. Our employees develop customers for life through their daily commitment to expertise, productivity and efficiency.