Plant Controller

At RHI Magnesita, our ability to deliver high-performance refractory solutions depends on the strength of every link in our value chain—including the financial leadership that supports our manufacturing operations. As a Plant Controller in our York facility, you’ll play a key role in ensuring financial accuracy, operational transparency, and SAP-driven process excellence. This is a high-impact opportunity for a finance professional who thrives in a fast-paced industrial environment and brings hands-on SAP implementation experience to the table. 

What You’ll Do

• Own plant-level P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow reporting.
• Lead budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis (volume, mix, yield, overhead).
• Act as SAP FI/CO super-user, ensuring data integrity, standard costing, and accurate monthly closings.
• Drive SAP implementation and upgrade projects: requirements gathering, testing, training, and go-live stabilization.
• Provide financial insights on productivity, capital investments, and cost improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate with the Plant Manager and operations team to support decision-making and transparency.
• Mentor junior finance staff and support continuous improvement initiatives.

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or Economics (MBA/CPA a plus).
• 5–8 years of finance/controlling experience, with at least 3 years in manufacturing.
• Advanced SAP FI/CO knowledge; PP/MM integration experience required.
• Proven experience in SAP implementations or major upgrades.
• Strong analytical, modeling, and communication skills.
• Independent, strategic thinker with a process improvement mindset.

What We Offer

RHI Magnesita is the leading global supplier of high-grade refractory products, systems and solutions which are critical for high-temperature processes in a wide range of industries. Serving customers around the world, RHI Magnesita has more than 20,000 employees in 65 main production sites (including raw material sites), 12 recycling facilities and more than 70 sales offices.

RHI Magnesita’s team in North America helps build refractory products that solve the most extreme manufacturing challenges. From advanced lithium-ion batteries for laptops and EVs and specialized glass on smartphones and tablets, to the steel and cement that build the world around us, our high-performance bricks and linings make it possible to melt, bend, shape, and refine these materials at extreme temperatures.

With a vertically integrated value chain, RHI Magnesita has helped forge the materials that build industries and economies for almost 200 years. Refractory products are essential to the production processes for cement, steel, aluminum, and many other industrial producers in the region.

Come get fired up with our North American team!