Controller - Cost Accounting/Finance Lead
About The Position
Emerson has an exciting opportunity for a Controller - Cost Accounting/Finance Lead to join our team and provide financial leadership for our Brenham, TX, manufacturing facility! This is supporting our site of less than 100 people. This role will be based in our Houston, TX location. You will oversee the accounting close process, financial reporting, and asset/liability controls while ensuring accuracy, compliance, and strong internal controls. You will lead forecasting, budgeting, and financial analysis to provide insights, performance metrics, and decision-making support to site management. Additionally, you will drive system improvements, handle audits, develop accounting staff, and provide financial leadership using tools such as Oracle and HFM. If you're passionate about innovation, technical development, and leading product design efforts, this role is for you!
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business or related
- Six (6) or more years related experience
- Proficiency in Microsoft office suite
- Legal authorization to work in the United States - Sponsorship will not be provided for this role
Nice To Haves
- People manager skills or experience preferred
- Accounting or Finance major
- Experience in a manufacturing environment
- Oracle experience a plus
- CPA, CMA or MBA
Responsibilities
- Supervise and coordinate accounting close process and financial statement preparation, with analysis of business unit and functional area results to produce accurate & timely financial documents.
- Review overall valuation and control of site assets and liabilities to ensure accurate reporting.
- Define, document and maintain financial business system requirements and provide technical accounting & systems expertise to improve design and utilization of those systems.
- Implement and supervise effective internal controls and procedures, and coordinate financial related audits and reviews of operational processes to support those controls.
- Analyze and interpret monthly financial results, including P&L, Balance Sheet and Product Group data, to provide variance analysis, performance metrics and management support to understand results and improvement options.
- Prepare and analyze monthly rolling forecast, including P&L, Asset Management, Cash Flow and Headcount.
- Coordinate annual budgeting and financial planning projects with reporting, analysis and guidance to site management to develop and achieve site financial objectives.
- Partner with site management for business planning and financial decision making.
- Manage and develop accounting staff and provide financial leadership to site.
- Use of and familiarity with Oracle and HFM (Hyperion) accounting and financial reporting systems.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Industry
Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
Number of Employees
1-10 employees
