Controller Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, accounting, finance, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 10 years of accounting experience in a senior accounting or financial management role.
• Strong interpersonal skills, including managing diverse groups, motivating and developing employees, setting clear goals, and providing direct, current, constructive feedback.
• Ability to manage the accounting team.
• Ability to work in a culture of an inverted pyramid.
• Hands-on participation at all levels of the company.
• Impeccable analytical and organizational skills.
• Thorough knowledge of accounting principles and procedures.
• Experience with general ledger functions and month-end/year-end close processes.
• Excellent accounting software user and administration skills.
• Forward-looking approach, actively seeking opportunities and proposing solutions.
• Self-motivated and self-directed.

Nice To Haves

• Accounting designation (CPA or CMA), or an equivalent combination of related experience or education.

Responsibilities

• Maintain documented accounting policies and procedures.
• Oversee accounting department operations and design an organizational structure suited to achieving departmental goals and objectives.
• Administer property, casualty, and liability insurance, including workers’ compensation policies and audits.
• Ensure accounts payable are paid timely and reasonable discounts are taken.
• Ensure accounts receivable are collected promptly.
• Complete periodic bank reconciliations.
• Ensure required debt payments are made on time.
• Maintain the chart of accounts and controls over accounting transactions.
• Manage banking and merchant services relationships, including relationship management, lines of credit, and payment methods.
• Issue timely and complete financial statements and coordinate preparation of the corporate annual report.
• Recommend benchmarks to measure company operating performance and calculate and issue financial and operating metrics.
• Manage production of the annual budget and forecasts, calculate budget variances, and report significant issues to management.
• Provide management cost reports and financial analyses as needed.
• Perform job cost analysis and manage work in process (WIP).
• Coordinate information for external auditors.
• Monitor debt levels and compliance with debt covenants.
• Comply with local, state, and federal reporting requirements and tax filings.