Assistant Controller

• Month-end / quarter-end / year-end close — own the full cycle, including journal entries, reconciliations, accruals, and the consolidated reporting package delivered to corporate on the TransDigm timeline.
• Financial reporting — prepare and review internal management reporting, variance analysis, and corporate submissions; explain the numbers, not just produce them.
• SOX and internal controls — design, document, and own the internal control environment in a SOX-compliant public-company setting; maintain segregation of duties, support 404 testing, and remediate deficiencies before they become findings.
• Audit — serve as the operating-company point of contact for TransDigm internal audit and for external audit requests; manage the process, resolve findings, and close gaps.
• Standard costing — own standard cost setup, annual cost rolls, and the maintenance of accurate costing across SKUs and BOMs.
• Inventory and WIP — ensure accurate valuation, cycle-count / physical inventory integrity, reserves, and reconciliation to the GL.
• Variance analysis — analyze and explain purchase price variance (PPV), manufacturing / labor / overhead variances, and margin by product line; turn variances into actions.
• Margin and profitability — partner with operations to understand cost drivers and surface productivity opportunities.
• Operations partner — act as a true finance business partner to business unit managers and the operations team — in the plant and in the data — to drive productivity actions and decision-making.
• Information flow — improve the speed, accuracy, and usefulness of reporting and information across the business; replace manual effort with better process.
• Automation and AI — actively look for opportunities to automate manual work and apply new tools, including AI, to speed the close, sharpen analysis, and improve information flow; pilot, measure, and scale what works.
• Planning support — support forecasting, the Annual Operating Plan (AOP), and the value-driver discipline (pricing, productivity, profitable new business) that define performance in this environment.
• Develop the team — supervise, coach, and hold accountable the finance team; set standards and raise the bar.
• Build capacity — create the bandwidth and backup that lets the finance function scale without adding headcount.
• Capital projects & post-implementation audit — evaluate capital requests beyond payback and ROI, stress-test the productivity and savings case, and audit projects after implementation to confirm the promised productivity was actually delivered.
• Financial education & communication — train and coach non-financial managers, explain financial concepts in plain terms, and proactively surface the right month-end observations to the right people at the right time.

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance.
• Minimum 5 years of cost accounting experience in a manufacturing environment operating on a standard costing system.
• Demonstrated full-cycle close ownership and strong technical GAAP foundation.
• Demonstrated ability to operate in a SOX environment — setting up, documenting, and managing appropriate internal controls, not merely supporting an audit from the sidelines. Public-accounting / external-audit background is not required.
• Supervisory experience, with a track record of developing people.
• Advanced Excel for financial analysis, modeling, and reporting.
• Experience with a tier-one or mid-tier ERP; Epicor experience is a strong plus.

• CPA (active or in progress) and/or CMA.
• Prior experience in a lean, decentralized, performance-driven operating company — aerospace or defense a plus.
• Exposure to FP&A, AOP / budgeting, and value-driver-based management.
• Aptitude for process automation and emerging tools — e.g., Power Query, Power Automate, macros / VBA, and AI assistants — with a track record of eliminating manual work.

• Ownership mindset — apolitical and collaborative; treats the business as if it were your own; acts with urgency and a bias for action.
• Leadership — empowers others, leads with purpose, develops talent, and builds strong, collaborative teams.
• Drive for results — sets high standards, takes initiative, works autonomously, stays focused on the value drivers, and is determined to deliver.
• Communication — open, honest, clear, and concise; raises issues early and proactively; fosters an environment where people feel safe to speak up; and works across silos.
• Business acumen — focuses on the metrics that matter, makes fact-based decisions, partners cross-functionally, and thinks analytically and methodically.
• Execution — delivers on time, simplifies process, sets clear and consistent goals, and prioritizes effectively.

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