Financial Controller - Manufacturing/Robotics

Career Staffing Talent•Oklahoma City, OK

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Career Staffing Talent (CST) has partnered with a high-growth advanced manufacturing company serving commercial and defense aerospace customers. Backed by multi-year government program funding and a growing commercial base, they are expanding across multiple U.S. sites — and building a finance function to match. This is not a maintenance seat. We are hiring the person who owns the numbers. Most Controller openings are backfills. This one is a step up. We are deliberately targeting a strong Accounting Manager or Assistant Controller or existing Controller ready to take full ownership of the close, the financials, and eventually the finance function itself. You will be the senior accounting voice in the building, reporting to executive leadership with direct visibility into how a scaling manufacturer actually makes money. If you want a title you grow into rather than one you've already outgrown, read on.

Requirements

Bachelor's in Accounting or Finance
Big Four (or large national firm) audit foundation — 2+ years
3+ years of industry accounting after public, including hands-on ownership of the monthly close
Manufacturing or industrial experience strongly preferred (inventory, WIP, standard costing, job costing)
Active CPA or CPA-eligible
Demonstrated GAAP depth and comfort documenting your own conclusions
Strong ERP and Excel capability
Must be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident (customer requirements)

Nice To Haves

Experience through a system implementation or migration is a plus
Someone who catches the error before the CFO does
Multi-entity consolidations and intercompany work
Government contract accounting exposure (DCAA, incurred cost submissions)
Experience in a company under 250 employees where you built rather than inherited the process

Responsibilities

End-to-end monthly, quarterly, and annual close — calendar, cutoffs, accruals, reconciliations, and a close you can defend line by line
Accurate, timely, GAAP-compliant financial statements leadership can make decisions from
Inventory, WIP, and cost accounting in a build-and-deploy environment
Internal controls and documented processes that scale past spreadsheets
AP, AR, payroll coordination, and cash reporting
Audit and tax support as the external liaison
Budget-to-actual variance analysis with real explanations, not just deltas
Partnering with operations and engineering so job costing reflects what's actually happening on the floor