Controller - Group

Overview

This role provides financial oversight across multiple manufacturing sites and leads local finance site leaders through monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close and reporting processes. The position ensures reconciled financial statements are delivered in accordance with company accounting policies and GAAP, supports compliance with SOX controls, and drives planning, forecasting, variance analysis, and resolution of complex financial matters. This role also partners with senior leadership to support strategic initiatives and continuous improvement activities, including productivity and cost savings.

Responsibilities

• Ensure local finance team leaders deliver reconciled financials in accordance with company accounting policies and GAAP.
• Coach and enforce company and GAAP accounting policies.
• Lead internal and external audits as necessary.
• Ensure timely and accurate financial reporting, including full Balance Sheet reconciliations.
• Oversee monthly, quarterly, and annual closing processes.
• Ensure and enforce compliance of SOX controls with company policy.
• Drive financial statement analysis, understanding, and accountability.
• Lead complex matters to resolution.
• Champion execution of planning processes for all local finance team leaders.
• Oversee coordination, execution, and monitoring of the annual operating plan.
• Provide strategic thought leadership to support success of the annual operating plan.
• Oversee validation and accuracy of the monthly forecasting process.
• Review variance analysis explanations, business risks, drivers, and impacts.
• Serve as a strategic key business partner to senior leadership for multiple manufacturing sites.
• Proactively coach and lead financial collaboration across manufacturing lean activities; monitor and track key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Serve as a thought leader to the local and senior leadership teams.
• Coach and strengthen lean knowledge across the organization to ensure pace and rigor of Continuous Improvement (CI) productivity commitments.
• Identify and drive elimination of non-value-added activities through best practice sharing.
• Proactively communicate to assess risks and areas of opportunity.
• Champion company strategic initiatives.
• Develop, establish, and monitor annual plant, department, and individual goals; lead employee performance.
• Coach and develop finance team members’ technical and soft skills.
• Chair and elevate employee engagement to support business continuity and success.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance required. MBA desired.
• 10+ years’ experience in finance/accounting, including manufacturing environment experience required.
• 5+ years in a leadership role required.

Licenses

• CPA or CMA preferred.

Skills and Abilities

• Skilled in Microsoft Excel.
• Thorough understanding of data management systems.
• Excellent cost accounting skills; standard cost skills is highly desired.
• Superior written and verbal communication and presentation skills.

Travel

• 25–50% travel required.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA
• CPA or CMA
• Standard cost experience

Compensation & Benefits

Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage; company-paid life insurance and disability; and a 401(k) with company match (eligible the first of the month after you start). Additional offerings include wellbeing days, parental leave, educational reimbursement, referral bonuses, and employee discounts on company products.

Work Environment & Physical Requirements

• Sedentary work: exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects; sitting most of the time; walking and standing required only occasionally.
• Physical activities include talking, hearing, and use of hands/wrists/fingers in repetitive motions.
• Requires close visual acuity for preparing and analyzing data and figures, transcribing, viewing a computer terminal, reading, visual inspection involving small defects/small parts, using measurement devices, and/or inspection/assembly of fabrication of parts.
• Professional office environment; routinely uses standard office equipment.

Supervisor Responsibilities

• Plans, organizes, evaluates, and directs employees within the department function; has direct reports.