Controller

Engineered Medical Syst • Indianapolis, IN

17d • $120,000 - $140,000

About The Position

The Controller is a hands-on accounting and finance leader responsible for strengthening financial operations across Intersurgical’s United States organization. Reporting to the Vice President of Finance, US, the role initially focuses on stabilizing and improving Accounts Payable operations, resolving intercompany accounting issues, strengthening internal controls, and developing a dependable two-person AP team. The Controller works alongside the Accounting Manager, who retains responsibility for Accounts Receivable. The role involves direct work with transactional details, ERP workflows, and reconciliations while improving processes and building capacity for broader financial responsibilities.

After AP operations stabilize, the Controller will progressively take on month-end close and reporting, financial statement analysis, budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and financial planning in partnership with the VP of Finance. The position offers potential long-term development toward senior US finance leadership, without a guaranteed promotion.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related discipline.
• Approximately 6+ years of progressive accounting or finance experience, including hands-on AP, general ledger, reconciliations, and month-end exposure; equivalent experience considered.
• Demonstrated success improving broken or inefficient financial processes and leading practical change.
• Experience managing or formally leading accounting staff and navigating high-volume transactions.
• Strong ERP proficiency and experience with intercompany invoicing, entries, and reconciliations.
• Ability and willingness to work at the transaction level while developing broader financial leadership capability.
• Strong analytical problem-solving, attention to detail, and judgment under operational pressure.
• Ability to establish priorities, document processes, coach a small team, and deliver measurable improvements.
• Clear communication with transactional staff, operational partners, executives, and global stakeholders.
• Comfort balancing immediate AP cleanup, accounting rigor, and longer-term finance planning and leadership development.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in manufacturing, distribution, medical device, or another multi-entity operating environment.
• Budgeting, forecasting, FP&A, management reporting, and business-partnering experience.
• CPA or CMA.
• International parent/subsidiary experience.

Responsibilities

• Assess AP backlogs, aged payables, vendor accounts, invoice approval and payment workflows, and recurring errors; create and execute a prioritized remediation plan.
• Review transactions, perform reconciliations, resolve issues, and work in ERP workflows as needed to restore accuracy and timeliness.
• Strengthen high-volume invoice processing, three-way matching where applicable, vendor master controls, payment controls, documentation, and escalation procedures.
• Investigate and resolve intercompany invoicing, balances, journal entries, and reconciliation discrepancies with US and group finance colleagues.
• Develop AP metrics, standard operating procedures, ownership, and month-end cutoffs; monitor ongoing process performance.
• Supervise, coach, prioritize work for, and evaluate the two-person AP team; build accountability and technical capability.
• Coordinate handoffs, reconciliations, close activities, and shared controls with the Accounting Manager, who retains oversight of AR.
• Partner with Purchasing, Operations, receiving teams, vendors, and global finance counterparts to address root causes and improve transaction quality.
• Take on increasing responsibility for month-end close, general ledger integrity, financial statement review, accruals, reconciliations, and management reporting in coordination with the VP of Finance and Accounting Manager.
• Support annual budgets, rolling forecasts, cash-flow and working-capital analysis, and explanations of actual-to-plan variances.
• Develop financial dashboards and actionable analysis for US leadership, including manufacturing and operational performance.
• Participate in financial planning, process automation, systems improvement, and cross-functional decision support as capacity and readiness permit.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• 401k
• Paid Time Off and holidays
• Medical benefits
• Dental benefits
• Vision benefits
• Multiple opportunities to be challenged and advance your career in a fast-growth company

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior