Arconic (NYSE: ARNC) is looking for an Assistant Controller to join our Global Rolled Products (GRP) business unit in Davenport, IA.

Global Rolled Products (GRP), is a dynamic global organization that offers the widest variety of aluminum plate and sheet in the world. GRP is made up of Arconics rolling operations around the world with manufacturing and commercial sites in North America, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, Asia, Australia and Russia. GRP is an approximately $8 billion global business.

As suppliers to the aerospace, automotive, commercial transportation, building and construction, industrial, and packaging and consumer goods spanets, our high-quality materials are the foundation for many products that touch everyday life.

Since it opened in 1948, Arconic’s Davenport, Iowa aluminum facility has been at the forefront of American manufacturing. Nestled on the banks of the Mississippi River in Iowa, the plant employs 2,400 people and is a focal point of the global aluminum industry, with 25 percent of revenues coming from exports. Through continued modernization, including a $500 million investment over the past decade alone, Davenport has maintained its position as the world’s premier aerospace and automotive supply plant.

Davenport Works is a large, complex manufacturing system within Global Rolled Products (GRP), an Arconic business unit that focuses on the production and sale of specific rolled aluminum products in global Aerospace, Automotive, and Industrial spanets. The Davenport system includes the major manufacturing facility in Davenport, IA, the aerospace polishing facility in Hutchinson, KS, and the automotive HT/blanking facility in Danville, IL. The Davenport Assistant Controller is responsible for compliance, FP&A, location accounting activities, and driving business partnering across the plant. The position will provide leadership and oversight for all three of the satellite manufacturing areas within the Finance Team.

The Assistant Controller will have the following major responsibilities:

• Preparation of monthly financial forecasts and weekly forecast updates.
• Analysis of financial, operational, and commercial results.
• Preparation of monthly and quarterly reporting packages for senior management.
• Month-end closing and reporting, including account reconciliations and coordination of closing entries with other GRP locations.
• Capital appropriation support.
• Analysis of plant spending and leadership of spend management systems.
• Tracking execution of cost savings projects and coordinating reporting in cost savings system.
• Financial analysis and process development for special projects, as required.
• Completion of Arconics Sarbanes-Oxley requirements for internal controls
• Decision Support functions such as expense analyses, capital economic justifications, etc.
• Provide oversight and guidance on process improvements and other cost reduction initiatives in Satellite locations and Automotive Mix Mill flow path as well as within the overall Davenport system.
• Continuous provide leadership, train, and develop talent within the Finance Team

Basic qualifications:

• B.S. degree in Business concentration in Accounting or Finance from an accredited institution
• 7+ years experience in the finance function of a publicly traded corporation in increasingly responsible leadership roles.
• Manufacturing & cost accounting experience
• Experience directly supervising others
• Leadership of plant-wide process improvements (e.g. inventory reductions, forecast accuracy improvement, cost reductions).

Preferred qualifications:

• MBA a plus
• More than five years of Finance/Accounting Experience
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely in both written and oral form
• Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills
• Self-starter
• Experience with querying databases
• Excellent analytical skills
• Experience with cost accounting

ABOUT Davenport Works

Davenport Works is the country’s largest aluminum rolling mill, it was opened in 1948 and currently employs more than 2,000 people and ships product worldwide. It is in Riverdale in the Quad Cities (Davenport and Bettendorf in southeastern Iowa, and Rock Island and Moline in northwestern Illinois). The Quad Cities is 3 hours south-west of Chicago, 4 hours north of St. Louis, and less than 3 hours from Des Moines. The Quad Cities is home to St. Ambrose University among 8 educational institutes. Major outdoor summer music festivals include the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival, Mississippi Valley Blues Festival, and River Roots Live.

ABOUT ARCONIC

Arconic Corporation (NYSE: ARNC), a Fortune 500 company, is a leading provider of aluminum sheet, plate and extrusions, as well as innovative architectural products, that advance the automotive, aerospace, commercial transportation, industrial and building and construction spanets. Building on more than a century of innovation, Arconic helps to transform the way we fly, drive, and build. We are proud that 77 of our employees are happy working for Arconic and would recommend it as a great place to work and that 80 of our employees would recommend their managers to others.

We live our core values and commit to delivering sustainable value to our customers, our employees, our communities and our shareholders.

At Arconic, we:

Act With Integrity.

We lead with respect, honesty, transparency and accountability.

Safeguard our Future.

We protect and improve the health and safety of our employees, communities and environment.

Grow Stronger Together.

We cultivate an inclusive and diverse culture that advocates for equity.

Earn Customer Loyalty.

We build customer partnerships through best-in-class products and service.

Drive Operational Excellence.

We pursue continuous improvement through innovation, agility, people development and collaboration.

Create Value.

We achieve success by generating and growing value for our shareholders.

Arconic reaffirms its policy to provide equal employment opportunity in recruiting, hiring, upgrading and promotion, conditions and privileges of employment, company-sponsored training, access to facilities, educational assistance, social and recreational programs, compensation, benefits, transfers, discipline, layoffs, recalls or termination of employment to all employees without discrimination because of race, color, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, veteran status, genetic information, sex or age (within statutory limits). Arconic is in compliance with all relevant Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Laws and Regulations.