Finance HR Controller
Department: Human Resources
Reports To: HR Director, Americas (with dotted-line partnership to Finance / Controlling)
FLSA Status: Exempt
Position Summary
The Finance HR Controller serves as the financial business partner for Human Resources, responsible for planning, forecasting, budgeting, reporting, and controlling all people-related costs across the Americas. This role ensures the integrity of labor cost reporting, headcount planning, payroll reconciliation, and HR financial analytics while partnering closely with Finance, Payroll, Operations, and Business Leaders.
The position combines financial controlling expertise with HR operational knowledge to support strategic workforce decisions, improve financial accuracy, and provide meaningful insights into labor costs, productivity, and organizational performance. This type of role is becoming increasingly common as companies integrate finance and HR planning functions. Must be a back up for Payroll.
Essential Responsibilities Financial Planning & Analysis
- Develop annual HR budgets and quarterly forecasts
- Prepare monthly labor cost reporting
- Analyze labor cost variances
- Forecast headcount expenses
- Track salary increases and bonus accruals
- Monitor benefit expenses
- Analyze overtime and agency labor costs
- Support annual operating plan development
- Build long-range workforce financial models
HR Controlling
- Own monthly HR financial close activities
- Reconcile payroll to General Ledger
- Monitor headcount movements
- Validate FTE reporting
- Analyze vacancies and hiring plans
- Track organizational changes
- Manage labor cost allocations
- Review cost center accuracy
Reporting & Analytics
Develop dashboards and reporting for:
- Headcount
- FTE
- Labor costs
- Overtime
- Temporary labor
- Turnover
- Recruiting costs
- Absenteeism
- Benefits costs
- Workers' Compensation
- Training expenses
- Organizational productivity
Payroll & Compensation Analysis
- Validate payroll accuracy
- Analyze compensation trends
- Review merit increases
- Forecast incentive compensation
- Support salary planning
- Audit payroll variances
- Reconcile payroll taxes
- Monitor benefit deductions
Systems
Serve as the HR Finance system expert for:
- Dayforce
- SAP
- OneStream
- HRIS reporting tools
- Microsoft Power BI
- Advanced Excel
- Workforce planning tools
Compliance
Ensure compliance with:
- SOX controls
- Internal audit requirements
- Financial policies
- Labor reporting requirements
- HR financial controls
- Budget governance
- Payroll controls
Business Partnership
Partner with:
- HR Business Partners
- Finance Controllers
- Payroll
- Accounting
- Operations Leadership
- Plant Managers
Provide financial guidance regarding:
- Hiring decisions
- Organizational restructuring
- Workforce planning
- Labor productivity
- Cost reduction initiatives
- Capital projects affecting labor
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Labor cost forecast accuracy
- Budget variance
- Headcount accuracy
- Payroll reconciliation accuracy
- Forecast timeliness
- Financial close support
- Labor productivity metrics
- Overtime reduction
- Temporary labor reduction
- Reporting accuracy
- Dashboard utilization
- Cost savings identified
Qualifications Education
Bachelor's degree in:
- Finance
- Accounting
- Business
- Human Resources
- Economics
Master's degree preferred.
Experience
- 5+ years Finance, FP&A, HR Finance, or Controlling
- Manufacturing experience preferred
- Multi-site environment
- Payroll analysis
- Budget development
- Financial modeling
- Workforce planning
- HR analytics
Technical Skills
Advanced knowledge of:
- Excel (Power Query, PivotTables, formulas)
- Power BI
- OneStream
- SAP
- Dayforce
- Financial reporting
- Payroll accounting
- Labor analytics
- Budgeting
Competencies
- Financial analysis
- Business acumen
- Analytical thinking
- Process improvement
- Confidentiality
- Communication
- Project management
- Strategic planning
- Data visualization
- Problem solving
Preferred Experience
- Manufacturing
- Multi-national organization
- Matrix organization
- HRIS implementation
- ERP implementation
- Labor cost accounting
- Headcount planning
- Compensation planning
- Union environment
- Shared services
Why this role matters
This position ensures that HR decisions are supported by accurate financial analysis, enabling leadership to understand the true cost of labor while improving forecasting, budgeting, and workforce planning. By integrating HR and Finance processes, the Finance HR Controller helps optimize labor investments, improve reporting accuracy, strengthen internal controls, and provide actionable insights that support business performance.
Pay: $65,489.67 - $78,869.28 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid sick time
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Retirement plan
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
Application Question(s):
- Will you now or in the future require Visa Sponsorship?
- This position requires you to be onsite in Loves Park, Illinois 61111 can you easily commute or relocate to this area?
Education:
Experience:
- SAP Finance & Controlling: 5 years (Required)
Shift availability:
Ability to Commute:
- Loves Park, IL 61111 (Required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Loves Park, IL 61111
