Assistant Controller

Legrand North America•West Hartford, CT

99d•Onsite

About The Position

Legrand has an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Controller to join the Electrical Wiring Systems Wiremold Team in West Hartford, CT. This role involves assisting the Controller with driving and executing day-to-day accounting team responsibilities, tasks, and project-related efforts. The position provides oversight and direction to the fixed asset function, including the development of standard reports and projections related to Capex spend and depreciation. It also provides oversight and direction in the Treasury area, including reviews of weekly disbursement runs, wire payment releases, and monthly cash projection forecasts. The role is responsible for completing month-end closing, coordinating monthly accruals, schedules, and reporting (such as commission accruals, incentive/sales bonus accruals, and rebate accruals), approving and posting monthly journal entries, and approving and analyzing monthly balance sheet reconciliations. Ensuring the timeliness, accuracy, and integrity of general ledger data is crucial. The Assistant Controller will oversee the daily operations of Accounts Payable, including general ledger coding, OPOS administration, and new account setup. They will also assist in T&E and PCard Concur Audits and administration, perform balance sheet reviews, and review/approve monthly account reconciliations, ensuring reconciling items are properly labeled and dispositioned. A key responsibility is managing and coordinating the execution of financial audits, assisting with the development of a robust controls environment, ensuring proper controls documentation and adequate segregation of duties, and assisting the business with remediation of controls deficiencies. The role requires interaction with internal/external audit teams to facilitate efficient audits and participation in issue remediation efforts. Collaboration with staff and other departments to identify improvements and efficiencies is expected. The position provides reporting and analysis to drive Mfg Productivity of the WH site, including weekly earned hours/mix reporting, monthly and quarterly operations reporting, inventory reporting, and annual budgets. Documenting policies and procedures, managing staff including training and job development, helping the team set annual goals based on strategic initiatives, conducting semi-annual reviews of goals with individual team members, and preparing annual performance evaluations are also key duties. The Assistant Controller will lead and participate in various projects and job responsibilities as directed by the Controller.

Requirements

BBA in Accounting.
5-7 years of experience in accounting and/or finance.
Ability to prioritize responsibilities and multitask.
Outstanding communication skills.
Leadership skills to ensure training, motivation and development of staff.
Excellent Microsoft Excel skills.
Detail and results oriented.
MS Office
Manage 2000
Proquis
Happy Fox
Sage Fixed Asset software
Budget Maestro
Concur Solutions
SharePoint
CitiDirect BE

Responsibilities

Assist the Controller with driving and executing day-to-day accounting team responsibilities, tasks, and project related efforts.
Provide oversight and direction to the fixed asset function including development of standard reports and projections related to Capex spend and depreciation projections.
Provide oversight and direction in the Treasury area including reviews of weekly disbursement runs, wire payment releases, and monthly cash projection forecasts.
Complete month end closing.
Coordinate monthly accruals, schedules and reporting, such as commission accruals, incentive/sales bonus accruals and rebate accruals.
Approve and post monthly journal entries.
Approve and analyze monthly balance sheet reconciliations.
Ensure timeliness, accuracy and integrity of general ledger data.
Oversee daily operations of Accounts Payable: general ledger coding, OPOS administration, New account set up.
Assist in the T&E and PCard Concur Audits and administration.
Perform balance sheet reviews and review/approve monthly account reconciliations while ensuring reconciling items are properly labeled and dispositioned in subsequent months.
Responsible for managing and coordinating execution of financial audits while assisting with development of a robust controls environment including ensuring proper controls documentation, ensuring adequate segregation of duties are in place, and assist the business with remediation of controls deficiencies.
Interact with the internal/external audit teams to facilitate efficient execution of audits and participate in all issue remediation efforts.
Work with staff and other departments to continually look for improvements and efficiencies.
Provide reporting and analysis to help drive Mfg Productivity of the WH site: including but not limited to: weekly earned hours/mix reporting, monthly and qtrly operations reporting, inventory reporting, annual budgets.
Document policies and procedure.
Management staff including training and job development.
Help team set annual goals based on strategic initiatives.
Semi-annual review of goals with individual team members.
Prepare annual performance evaluations of each team member.
Lead and participate in various projects and job responsibilities, as directed by the Controller.