Controller

Job Description

Job Description

Summary:

The Controller is a critical leadership role within the organization, reporting directly to the Finance Director. The Controller is responsible for overseeing the accounting and financial reporting functions and ensuring the accuracy and timeliness of the financial records and reporting. The role is responsible for establishing, monitoring, and enforcing internal controls to safeguard assets and ensure compliance with US GAAP and local, state, and federal tax laws.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Duties may include the following. Other duties may be assigned as deemed necessary to support quality goals and objectives.

• General Ledger and Financial Close: * Maintain full ownership of the general ledger, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and compliance with company accounting policies. * Lead the monthly and annual closing processes, including balance sheet account ownership, accruals, and reconciliations, ensuring timeliness without compromising the integrity of the financial information. * Oversee the recording and reconciliation of intercompany transactions, ensuring alignment with established policies. * Establish, maintain, and enforce reconciliation standards, review procedures, and close checklists to ensure consistency, accuracy, and audit readiness.
• Financial Operations:
  • Provide oversight of accounts receivable and the order-to-cash process, including customer credit, invoicing accuracy, and collections performance.
  • Provide oversight of accounts payable processes, including vendor setup governance, invoice processing, and payment execution.
  • Manage treasury activities including cash positioning and daily bank reconciliations.
  • Oversee fixed asset accounting, including depreciation schedules and periodic physical inventories.
• Internal Controls and Compliance: * Design, implement, document, and enforce internal controls over financial reporting * Ensure ongoing compliance with US GAAP * Maintain, review, and update accounting policies, procedures, and standard operating documentation. * Serve as the primary liaison for external auditors, including coordination and preparation of audit schedules, support, and responses.
• Forecasting and Budgeting:
  • Lead the development, coordination, and continuous improvement of the annual budget and rolling forecast process in partnership with business leaders.
• Leadership and Partnerships:
  • Build, develop, and lead a high-performing accounting team that delivers accurate results with strong accountability, controls and a continuous improvement mindset.
  • Partner cross-functionally to provide timely financial information, including key performance indicators, to support operational and strategic decision-making.
  • Analyze, communicate, and present financial results, trends, and key drivers to leadership and other stakeholders in a clear and effective manner.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

Supervision of accounting staff.

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience

• A bachelor's degree in accounting with solid knowledge of US GAAP is required. Experience of 3-5 years in public accounting or industry is required.
• Prior experience as a Controller is preferred.
• Must be proficient in MS Excel including pivots, VLOOKUP, and logical functions.
• Intercompany/multiple entity experience is a plus.
• Experience with Microsoft Navision, Microsoft D365, and Oracle NetSuite is preferred but not required.
• Experience supervising employees is required.

Language Skills

• Ability to read and speak English.
• Possess both written and oral communication skills appropriate to a workplace environment.

Mathematical Skills

• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume.

Other Skills

• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where limited standardization exists
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations, Misc.

• Certified Public Account (CPA) is strongly preferred.