Manager Finance - Engineering Services

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At Mohawk Industries, we’re committed to more – more customer solutions, more process improvements, more sustainable manufacturing and more opportunities for our team.

As a Fortune 500, global flooring leader with some of the best-known brands in the industry, Mohawk is a great place to start or develop your career with an emphasis on more of what’s important to you. Whether you want to lead more, innovate more, learn more or create more, you can find your more with Mohawk.

What we need:

The Engineering Controller is a first-level manager who will use their knowledge of industry practices and standards to manage the budgets, forecasting, financial reporting, and strategic planning required for the FNA engineering division. This role serves as a key member of the Engineering and Operations leadership team, ensuring the integrity of financial reporting while providing financial oversight and controls of all engineering and maintenance spend, projects, capital investments and restructuring initiatives. The role partners closely with Operations, Engineering, and Plant Management to ensure costs are properly classified, allocated, tracked, and reported, while driving accountability for engineering spend, performance and capital project execution.

What you’ll do:

• Serves as a member of the engineering management team to maintain the integrity of the financial statements and support engineering management in operational and business decisions.
• Accumulates, interprets, and evaluates engineering financial performance metrics.
• Oversees standard financial duties including reporting, month-end close activities, account reconciliations, audits, and annual operating budget preparation.
• Prepares weekly and monthly financial reports, forecasts, and management presentations.
• Ensures compliance with company policies and internal controls.
• Provides financial oversight of capital projects, including budget development, spending analysis, forecasting, and project closeout processes.
• Ensures capital project expenditures are accurately tracked and charged to the appropriate projects, cost centers, and asset categories.
• Reviews and validates capital versus expense classifications in accordance with company policy and accounting standards.
• Oversees the allocation of engineering-related costs across capital projects, restructuring initiatives, preventative maintenance activities, and operating expenses to ensure accurate financial reporting.
• Partners with Engineering, Maintenance, Operations, and Project Managers to monitor project spending, review project status, and identify budget variances or financial risks.
• Leads regular capital project review meetings with Engineering and Plant Leadership to evaluate project performance, spending trends, forecasts, and resource utilization.
• Monitors restructuring expenditures and preventative maintenance spending to ensure proper accounting treatment and financial transparency.
• Analyzes project overruns, cost trends, and spending variances, providing recommendations and corrective actions as needed.
• Supports fixed asset management processes, including capitalization of completed projects and retirement of assets when appropriate.
• Develops and maintains reporting tools, metrics, and dashboards to improve visibility into capital spending and project performance.
• Identifies opportunities to improve financial controls, cost allocation processes, reporting accuracy, and operational efficiencies.
• Performs other duties as needed.

What you have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field, or equivalent education and/or experience.
• 2–4 years of relevant accounting, finance, cost accounting, manufacturing finance, or controllership experience, or equivalent education and/or experience.
• 1–3 years of management experience.
• Experience with budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, and cost accounting within a manufacturing environment.
• Experience supporting capital projects, fixed asset accounting, and project spend management preferred.

What you’re good at:

• Requires specialized depth and breadth of expertise in manufacturing finance, cost accounting, financial analysis, and operational support.
• Focused on and responsible for team productivity and collective impact.
• Strong understanding of financial controls, budgeting, forecasting, inventory accounting, and capital project accounting.
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, analytical, and organizational skills.
• Ability to effectively partner with Operations, Engineering, Maintenance, and Plant Leadership teams.
• Able to multitask, prioritize, delegate, and manage time effectively.
• High level of integrity and discretion in handling sensitive and confidential information.
• Proficient using Microsoft Office Suite products and financial reporting systems.
• Flexible attitude, adaptable to change, team player, and able to handle multiple projects simultaneously.
• High degree of professionalism, judgment, maturity, and resourcefulness in the absence of formalized guidelines and procedures.
• Ability to analyze complex financial and operational data and translate findings into actionable business recommendations.

Mohawk Industries is a leading global flooring manufacturer that creates products to enhance residential and commercial spaces around the world. Mohawk’s vertically integrated manufacturing and distribution processes provide competitive advantages in the production of carpet, rugs, ceramic tile, laminate, wood, stone and vinyl flooring. Our industry-leading innovation has yielded products and technologies that differentiate our brands in the marketplace and satisfy all remodeling and new construction requirements. Our brands are among the most recognized in the industry and include American Olean, Daltile, Durkan, IVC, Karastan, Marazzi, Mohawk, Mohawk Home, Pergo, and Quick-Step. During the past decade, Mohawk has transformed its business from an American carpet manufacturer into the world’s largest flooring company with operations in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Europe, India, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Russia and the United States.

Mohawk Industries, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer including disability/veteran committed to an inclusive workplace and a proud Drugs Don’t Work participant.