Controller

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Leads the financial statement closing process monthly by communicating a well-organized schedule; accelerates the process to produce accurate financial statements within five days or less.
• Generate accurate financial statements per Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and in alignment with the account and business unit structure established; implement effective error checks to validate accuracy.
• Develops a thorough understanding of the business, product lines, manufacturing processes and familiarity with team members to help proactively identify changes that may impact financial reporting.
• Build a well-designed system of controls and validate their effectiveness; ensure accurate master data around financial reporting.
• Prepares and clearly presents materials to an executive level audience regarding business performance.
• Leads the audit process so that it is well-planned, communicated and is completed on a no-surprise basis.
• Develops accurate standard costs that properly reflect manufacturing costs and thoroughly understand and explain all variances from standard costs; recommend actions to improve negative variances from forecasted results.
• Team with business units to identify ideas and develop business cases for improvement projects that contain fully vetted implementation costs and benefits.
• Drives profitability improvements through cost down projects: provide information to help drive the selection of project ideas, validate savings and ensure savings are achieved in business unit profitability.
• Teams with operations leadership to help track, report on and to optimize labor and overhead efficiency; facilitate regular meetings with each plant for effective communication.
• Leads the capital asset process including vetting business cases for all additions, timely tracking of asset dispositions and performing post-implementation reviews to ensure investment benefits were achieved.
• Drives working capital efficiency particularly around inventory; serve as a key member of the excess and obsolete inventory task force.
• Plays a key role in helping ensure inventory accuracy through monitoring cycle count results and conducting physical inventory counts.
• Calculates subjective reserves regarding warranty, allowance for doubtful accounts, workers compensation, healthcare and excess and obsolete inventory.
• Identifies and implements automation and system tools to improve efficiency and control.
• Drives process improvements to reduce struggle and increase efficiency - repurpose time from gathering information to analyzing information and providing useful information to run the business.
• Performs other responsibilities as required.

Above is a list of the most important responsibilities and functions, which are essential to the position. Employees must be able to perform these essential functions satisfactorily with or without a reasonable accommodation. Accommodations will be evaluated and provided to eligible employees on a case-by-case basis, depending on the employee's medical restrictions, work availability, the nature of the position, the position's essential functions and other relevant factors.

Qualifications

• Education/Background: Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or related field (CPA preferred).
• 7-10 years of progressive accounting experience, including leadership roles within a manufacturing organization.
• Licenses/Certifications:
  • None

• Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:

• Strong understanding of accounting principles, cost accounting, inventory management and manufacturing finance.

• Excellent analytical, communication, and leadership skills

Training:

• Orientation

Working Conditions & Physical Requirements

Please refer to the general office physical demands checklist for more information regarding the working conditions and physical requirements for this job.