Controller Paper Packaging

Minerals Technologies Inc. (MTI) is a leading technologydriven specialty minerals company that develops produces and markets a broad range of mineral and mineralbased products related systems and services. MTI serves a wide range of consumer and industrial markets including household and personal care paper foundry steel construction and environmental solutions around the world. The company reported global sales of $2.2 billion in 2023.

MTI focuses on two major segments Consumer & Specialties and Engineered Solutions.

Our Consumer & Specialities segment offers technologically enhanced products to consumerdriven end markets plus specialty additives that become functional components in a variety of consumer and industrial goods. This segment includes our Household & Personal Care and Specialty Additives product lines. The Household & Personal Care product line provides mineraltomarket products that serve consumeroriented end markets including Pet Care Personal Care Fabric Care Edible Oil and Renewable Fuel Purification. Our Specialty Additives product line provides mineralbased technologies serving Paper Packaging Sealants & Adhesives Paint & Coatings Ceramics Plastics Food & Pharmaceutical markets.

Our Engineered Solutions segment offers advanced process technologies and solutions that are designed to improve our customers manufacturing processes and projects. This segment includes our HighTemperature Technologies and Environmental & Infrastructure product lines. Our HighTemperature Technologies product line offers speciallyformulated blends and technologies primarily for Foundry and Steelmaking industries. Our Environmental & Infrastructure product line provides waterproofing water purification remediation and other fluid management technologies for critical projects for Remediation Water Purification and Infrastructure.

MTIprovides a business environment and promotes a culture that encourages all employees to contribute to our success. We have long been committed to the recruitment and advancement of the most talented and qualified people. We recognize that MTIs ability to provide the highest caliber of products and services is enhanced by a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities and countries in which we work.

Major Duties & Responsibilities:

General:

1. Participates in the preparation and review of the annual plant budgets and associated reviews.
2. Recommends and implements improvements relating to all financial reporting aspects of the business.
3. Prepares weekly/monthly reporting to facilitate plant and divisional financial reviews
4. Analyzes business trends to provide explanations for the past and provide guidance for future
5. Evaluates performance of plant activities and ensure achievement of growth targets
6. Assists management and executives to achieve business objectives
7. Assist operating personnel managing the business by a high level of financial analysis and management reports and give financial training and guidance to managers so that they can utilize financial information system and make well founded decisions
8. Assists Divisional Finance with reporting and analysis
9. Work with the commercial team on potential new business development opportunities
10. Manage the customer price escalation process with commercial team
11. Interface with external auditors on annual audit requirements as they relate to the business
12. Ensure internal control procedures are in place and adjusts appropriately to local conditions. Monitors financial audits.
13. Provides leadership including performance management & development of talent within scope of responsibility.
14. Other duties as assigned

Cost Accounting Financial Planning Reporting and Analysis:

1. Coordinates and implements the monthly closing process including variance analysis
2. Assists with the preparation evaluation and review of capital projects including followup audits.
3. Prepares monthly financial reviews forecasts and annual financial plan.
4. Performs financial evaluations/discounted cash flow analysis to assist decision making
5. Ensures adherence to US GAAP Sarbanes Oxley and Corporate Policies
6. Manages and improves cash flow and working capital metrics
7. Monitors ledger reconciliations
8. Works closely with Commercial and Operations Managers to analyze business performance and forecast future results
9. Works in conjunction with Shared Services to ensure accurate and timely accounting and reporting
10. Supervise and lead general accounting and implements manages and supervises accounting system.
11. Ensure internal control procedures are in place and adjusts appropriately to local conditions

OE/Lean:

1. Actively participates and leads others in the implementation of sustainable improvement processes such as 5S Kaizen Daily Management Control Standard Work and Problem Solving. Utilizes available OE tools.

Note: Management reserves the right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

Qualifications/Requirements:

The requirements listed in the sections that follow are representative of the knowledge skills and/or abilities required to perform the duties of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions (primary duties) of the job.

Education: Minimum 5 years in a leadership position controllership or combination of assistant controller or accounting manager experience. 35 years of plant accounting experience. Bachelors degree in Finance Accounting or related discipline. MBA and experience with Oracle and ESSBASE a plus.

Working Conditions: While performing the duties of this job the employee is typically required to regularly conduct work in a controlled office environment. Occasionally there will be exposure to plant production areas which includes exposure to outside weather conditions as well as loud noise from equipment and dust from production processes. Exposure to plant areas requires the use of appropriate safety equipment. Personal protective equipment is available for employee use in these circumstances.

While performing the duties of this job the employee is typically required to have the ability to work in an office environment using office equipment as needed read write listen speak and understand English follow instructions and other oral/written information compose correspondence in a professional manner work independently and with others communicate effectively with all individuals internal and external to the organization analyze information/situations as needed be organized and detailoriented be able to identify/judge the urgency of a situation use judgment in decision making and use creativity and negotiation when necessary.

The employee is expected to be selfdirected take initiative and be persistent when appropriate to accomplish necessary duties and keep busy without prompting. Additionally the employee is expected to be adaptable/flexible to changing work assignments have a high level of integrity motivate and lead others/provide direction have dependability and self control to maintain composure perform multiple tasks at once manage time effectively and efficiently meet established deadlines display a cooperative demeanor read understand and follow all company job specific and safety policies/procedures and attend/use all required training. Ability to travel is required. The employee is expected to be international in outlook with an understanding of cultural differences and sensitivity to the nuances of different marketplaces.

Travel: Will travel as needed: domestically and internationally.

Safety Training: A new employee hired to perform the duties of this position is to be provided New Employee Training from a qualified individual which consists of classroom training and may include a tour of plant area(s). Additional refresher safety training will be required as management deems appropriate and/or as dictated by MSHA/OSHA regulations.