Assistant Plant Controller
About the job
- A bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent education and/or experience.
- Two to four years of job-related experience or equivalent education and/or experience.
- Solid understanding of accounting principles, financial statements, month-end close, and account reconciliations.
- Working knowledge of SAP and the ability to navigate and analyze financial and operational information within the system.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including the ability to organize, analyze, and present financial data.
- Ability to communicate clearly and professionally with financial and operational teams.
- Ability to take ownership of responsibilities and follow through on commitments.
- Ability to learn quickly, ask thoughtful questions, and apply feedback.
- Ability to analyze information and solve problems in a structured way.
- Ability to manage priorities, meet deadlines, and maintain accuracy.
- Ability to build strong working relationships while demonstrating integrity and sound judgment.
- Perform assigned month-end close activities, including journal entries, account reviews, reconciliations, accruals, and financial reporting.
- Prepare and analyze monthly financial results, operating metrics, and key performance indicators.
- Analyze manufacturing costs and variances, including materials, labor, overhead, scrap, productivity, and conversion costs.
- Maintain product-costing and inventory-valuation activities, including standard costs, cost estimates, bills of material, routings, and relevant master data.
- Prepare information for budgets, forecasts, strategic plans, and standard-cost updates.
- Partner with Operations and other plant functions to understand cost drivers, identify performance gaps, and support corrective actions.
- Monitor the accuracy of inventory, fixed assets, reserves, accruals, payroll-related accounts, and assigned balance-sheet accounts.
- Perform inventory-control activities, including physical inventories, cycle counts, adjustments, and slow-moving and obsolete inventory reviews.
- Maintain compliance with internal controls, company policies, accounting standards, and audit requirements.
- Prepare documentation and analyses for internal and external audits.
- Analyze capital projects and support project justification, tracking, capitalization, and post-completion reviews.
- Complete special projects, process improvements, and ad hoc financial analyses as assigned.
- Experience using Microsoft Power BI to review, analyze, or develop financial and operational reporting.
- Experience with cost accounting, standard costing, inventory accounting, or manufacturing variance analysis.
- CPA, CMA, MBA, or other relevant professional certification or advanced degree.
About the company
Mohawk Industries is a global flooring manufacturer that produces a broad range of flooring products for residential and commercial use, including ceramic tile, carpet, rugs, laminate, luxury vinyl tile, sheet vinyl, and wood flooring. Its products are sold through multiple brands and distributed worldwide, supported by a diversified portfolio designed to serve many customer segments. The company leverages its scale and multi-brand approach to maintain a strong footprint in North America and Europe, expanding through extended sales channels, deeper opportunities with existing customers, and strategic acquisitions. Mohawk’s goal is to grow its market share by broadening its distribution reach, expanding product offerings, and pursuing acquisitions that complement its portfolio.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Calhoun, Georgia
Founded
1878
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Q2 2026 sales rose 6.8% to $3.0 billion, beating expectations on volume and pricing.
- July 30, 2026 buybacks of 600,000 shares for $60 million lifted EPS.
- New restructuring projects target $60 million annual savings by end-2027 under Paul De Cock.
What critics are saying
- Residential remodeling stayed soft in Q2 2026, limiting organic growth across North America.
- Mohawk faces PFAS lawsuits in Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina, plus about 500 silica claims.
- A severe PFAS or silica verdict cascade can drain cash and trigger strategic retrenchment.
What makes Mohawk unique
- Mohawk remains the world's largest flooring company, spanning ceramic, carpet, vinyl, laminate, wood.
- Its Unilin and Mohawk brands reach North America, Europe, South America, and Oceania.
- Paul De Cock's September 30, 2026 succession preserves operational continuity through the turnaround.
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MHK jumps as Mohawk Industries plans aggressive buybacks. TIM BOHEN - UPDATED SEP. 25, 2026, 4:48 PM ET Summarize this article Mohawk Industries Inc. stocks have been trading up by 4.76 percent after upbeat housing demand forecasts boosted investor confidence. What traders need to know. * Truist sees Mohawk Industries re-rating higher as a new CEO shifts focus to margin expansion, portfolio pruning, and share buybacks potentially reaching 20% of market cap. * The firm argues fears of long-term decline are overdone, saying LVT flooring share gains have likely peaked, easing pressure on Mohawk Industries Inc. * Management is holding investor meetings with Truist in New York and Boston on 2026/09/02-2026/09/03, aiming to reset the story and improve communication. * Recent weekly action shows MHK pushing from the low $120s toward $125, signaling fresh buying interest into this narrative. Weekly Update Sep 21 - Sep 25, 2026: On Friday, September 25, 2026 Mohawk Industries Inc. stock [NYSE: MHK] is trending up by 4.76%! Discover the key drivers behind this movement as well as its expert analysis in the detailed breakdown below. Consumer Discretionary industry expert: Analyst sentiment - positive Mohawk Industries holds a solid but cyclical leadership position in global flooring, with Q2 revenue annualizing near $12B and modest growth after several flat years (3-year revenue CAGR negative, 5-year barely positive). Profitability is improving but still subpar: EBIT margin of 4.1% and EBITDA margin of 10.2% lag prior-cycle highs, reflected in mid-single-digit ROE and ROIC. Balance sheet quality is a clear strength: net leverage is low (total debt/equity 0.28, interest coverage 85x) and cash conversion is robust, with Q2 free cash flow of $228M and price-to-FCF of 8.7x and P/B just under 1x supporting a value-oriented long thesis. Weekly price data show a strong, near-straight-line advance from roughly $117 to $125, confirming a clear short-term uptrend and likely breakout from prior congestion. Intraday 5-minute candles have shown constructive buying on dips with higher lows and sustained closes near session highs, supported by above-average volume on up-moves and lighter volume on pullbacks. The key actionable level is $121: traders should treat it as first support and a tactical add zone, with tight downside control below $117 where the current breakout structure would be invalidated. Near-term catalysts are firmly skewed to the upside. Truist's view of a re-rating driven by a new CEO, explicit margin-expansion focus, portfolio pruning (including potential sale of a non-core European insulation/ceiling asset), and a buyback program up to 20% of market cap directly targets Mohawk's valuation discount to Consumer Discretionary and Home & Homeware peers. As execution becomes visible, I expect multiple expansion toward 12-13x forward EPS, supporting a 6-12 month price target range of $145-$155, with technical resistance near $135 and firm support in the $118-121 band. Quick financial overview. Mohawk Industries Inc. is trying to turn a low-expectation story into a margin and buyback story. Revenue over the last year runs near $10.8B, but three-year revenue growth is slightly negative, which explains why the market has been cautious. At the same time, MHK trades at a price-to-sales ratio around 0.73 and price-to-book near 0.95, signaling the stock is priced like a value laggard, not a growth name. Profitability is modest but improving. Recent quarterly revenue of about $2.99B produced gross margin of 24.3% and EBITDA margin just above 10%, with EBIT margin a bit above 4%. That translated into net income of roughly $196.1M and diluted EPS of $3.22 for the quarter, a decent earnings power base given the mid-teens P/E around 15.8. Returns on equity in the low single digits show room for upside if the new CEO can execute on margin expansion. Balance sheet strength backs the Truist narrative. Total debt-to-equity of 0.28, interest coverage above 80, and a current ratio near 1.9 give Mohawk Industries Inc. flexibility to prune lower-return units and fund buybacks. Free cash flow last quarter was about $228.2M against operating cash flow of $316.5M, enough to support meaningful repurchases. On the tape, weekly closes stepped from about $117 to $125, while intraday action shows a steady trend day: a morning base around $120-$122, then a controlled push and hold near $124-$125 into the close. Conclusion. This is stock news, not investment advice. StocksToTrade News delivers real-time stock market updates tailored to highlight the key catalysts driving short-term price movements. 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Lorberbaum's final industry appearance set for Edge Summit 2027. Calhoun, GA, September 18, 2026 - Mohawk Industries CEO Jeff Lorberbaum, who is retiring after 50 years in the flooring industry and 25 years leading Mohawk, will make his final official industry appearance at the company's Edge Summit 2027. Lorberbaum began his flooring career with his family's Aladdin Mills in 1976 and joined Mohawk when the company acquired Aladdin in 1994. He became Mohawk's CEO in 2001. Edge Summit 2027 will bring together Mohawk and its retail partners and will include a celebration of Lorberbaum's career and contributions to the flooring industry. Get the latest flooring industry news delivered weekly.
Truist sees upside for MHK with LVT demand softening & leadership change. Tuesday, September 8, 2026 from Floor Daily Truist released the following analysis on Mohawk (MHK): "LVT Surge Has Pressured The MHK Story For The Last 8 Years... Prior to 2018, MHK was one of the highest multiple names in its coverage given its tremendous bottom line growth coming out of the Financial Crisis. The flooring industry has long had a tradition of individual product categories being secular gainers in residential following consumer tastes. For this reason, MHK sells virtually all types of residential flooring. Regardless, the growth of LVT starting 15+ years ago was unlike anything the industry has ever seen going from a new introduction to roughly 25-30% market share (primarily from Asian production). This pushed down volume in virtually all other categories as the overall industry growth was not helped. MHK entered the LVT market with sourcing, but more with domestic production that had multiple production issues causing MHK to fall behind. This caused earnings to start to fall in 2018 and saw even more pressure with the market downturn that started in 2022. The overall result has been a substantial contraction in multiple and the stock moving off the radar screen for many investors. Mohawk was widely seen as a company in secular decline. CTASC would note very limited details provided to investors from management on the business made the situation even worse. "...But Top Of LVT Share Should Allow For Industry/Company-Specific Positives to Shine. Recent years have seen LVT top out in market share in the domestic market as CTASC discussed in its industry report here. All flooring has positive and negative attributes, and CTASC believe LVT has now reached its peak (albeit at a substantially higher level than many in the industry expected). While CTASC expect LVT to move with the industry but in a recovery, CTASC suspect that all flooring products will show unit growth (even carpet), which CTASC discuss more below. Therefore, CTASC think MHK should feel any industry upturn but also company-specific wins should start to show up in the results. CTASC believe this backdrop was directly in play with the 2Q26 results discussed more below. "Cannot Stress Enough How Dramatic Management Change Is For The Stock. In June, MHK announced that long time CEO Jeff Loberbaum would be stepping down from the position with COO Paul DeCock taking over the job. We discuss this change further here. We cannot overstate the potential positive implications of this for the stock, given the strategic changes discussed below as well as the expectation of new management to increase focus on educating investors about MHK and the industry."
Mohawk names An Nuyttens president of Flooring Rest of World segment. Calhoun, GA, September 3, 2026 - On September 1, Mohawk announced the appointment of An Nuyttens as president of its Flooring Rest of the World segment, effective mid-October. Nuyttens will join the company with more than 30 years of international leadership experience at Solvay, a global chemical company, including service in senior executive roles across Europe and the United States. Nuyttens will succeed Paul De Cock, who has led the Flooring Rest of the World segment on an interim basis in addition to his responsibilities as the Company's chief operating officer and prior to his appointment as the company's chief executive officer effective September 30. Get the latest flooring industry news delivered weekly.
Suzanne L. Helen, a possible member of group at Mohawk Industries, sold 1,000 shares of common stock on 14 August 2026 for $139,480, according to an SEC Form 4 filing. The shares were sold at a weighted average price of $139.48. Following the transaction, Helen maintains indirect ownership of approximately 148,000 shares. This includes 6,132 shares held by the PASTrust for her benefit and 141,646 shares held via a limited partnership. Mohawk Industries, a global flooring manufacturer, reported $11.2 billion in trailing twelve-month revenue. The company's stock has climbed 14.4% in 2026, outperforming the S&P 500's 11.4% return. Net sales reached $5.7 billion in the first six months of 2026, a 7.4% increase from the prior year.