Corporate Controller

Burnham Holdings Inc•Lancaster, PA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Creating value by providing a broad range of thermal technologies that provide advanced solutions for essential customer needs. Burnham Holdings, Inc. provides the heating and ventilation industry with thermal and interior comfort solutions used in a wide range of residential, commercial, and industrial applications. Our group of subsidiaries is a market leader in the design, manufacturing and sales of boilers and related products and accessories. We offer a broad line of high-value, energy efficient products sold under well established brand names. Products are manufactured at company operated facilities in the East, South, and Midwestern United States. We are seeking a Corporate Controller to join our team! The Corporate Controller leads the accounting and financial activities of the organization by performing the following duties personally or through the corporate finance team. This is a full-time position located in Lancaster, PA. Hours are Monday-Thursday, 7:45 AM – 4:45 PM; Friday, 7:45 AM – 3:30 PM.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree (B.A.) from four-year College or university in Accounting, Finance or Administration
Minimum of 10 years related experience
Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form.
Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
Must have the ability to handle stressful situations as they arise.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close and distance vision and ability to differentiate colors.
Displays willingness to make decisions; exhibits sound and accurate judgment; supports and explains reasoning for decisions; includes appropriate people in decision making process; makes timely decisions.
The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate broad-based functional competence with a proven track record of results. Burnham Holdings, Inc. is looking for a highly intelligent self-starter, an individual with a strong set of organizational values, and someone who readily assumes responsibility for driving financial and operational performance.
The successful candidate will be looking, planning, and moving into the future with clear intentions and purposeful actions. The candidate will be creative and capable of thinking broadly about business – not just finance and making decisions now that will lead the organization towards its future objectives. S/he will need to actively manage in real-time, not just report performance after the fact, questioning broad strategic plans and results, partnering on developing improvement and enhancements and challenging assumptions.
Although this position will not currently have direct reports, the ideal candidate will help build organization strength with the appropriate and diverse mix of styles, perspectives, and experiences to impact the future growth and profitability of the business. S/he should foster open dialogue and collaboration among the team and possess the ability to effectively motivate and develop others to achieve their goals and objectives. The candidate should be focused on coaching and mentoring the financial staff as well as helping business leaders to develop financial acumen.
Adapts to changes in the work environment; manages competing demands; changes approach or method to best fit the situation; able to deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events.
To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of database software; manufacturing software and be proficient Microsoft Office Programs.

Responsibilities

Oversees accounting operations including establishment and enforcement of accounting policies and procedures in accordance with GAAP requirements, ensuring the timelines, accuracy and integrity of the Company’s financial data and internal and external financial reporting.
Produce and interpret balance sheets, income statements and cash flow. Ensure that the reported results comply with generally accepted accounting principles and financial reporting standards.
Review journal entries and complete monthly detailed account reconciliations.
Monitor closing processes, expenses and reimbursements.
Leads the annual external audit and benefit plan audits and serves as a key point of contact for external financial auditors.
Creates and reviews all period-end activities to ensure the period-end financial statements accurately reflect the results of the Company’s activities and is familiar with the specific software procedures necessary to make final adjustments prior to closing out the period.
In conjunction with the Director of Financial Planning and Analysis, prepares reports and recommendations to Senior Leadership and the CFO.
Promote and enable key talent management activities including development and coaching of finance talent, succession pipeline management, recruitment, etc.
All other duties as assigned