Corporate Finance Controller

The ideal candidate will serve as the strategic financial architect for a global manufacturing organization and transform our finance function from a support model into a strategic engine of insight and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Manage and improve monthly reporting processes, including providing the primary point of liaison
• Work with the FP&A team to provide financial analysis, interpretation of variances from budgets, and advice to management to drive actions & opportunities to achieve targets
• Ensure accurate and reliable product cost and inventory valuation
• Ensure adherence to GAAP accounting principles and practices and documented policies and system of internal controls
• Manage and develop the plant's Controlling staff by establishing a work environment that encourages individual career development and growth
• Works as a partner to the Directors of Finance, as well as leadership, to help improve the business unit results through informed management decisions based on timely and accurate information
• Provide advice and counsel to the plant and division leadership team on the financial implications of operating strategies, cost control actions, and decisions
• Lead the organization in managing all internal and external audit activities
• Lead management’s efforts in responding to internal audits, Sarbanes Oxley, and other financial and/or internal control review processes conducted for the division
• Make financial presentations of business results to corporate management
• Assists the operating team in developing and driving improvement strategies
• Works with the corporate finance team to ensure an appropriate balance between division priorities

Qualifications & Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business Administration
• Minimum of 7 years of Accounting experience with a demonstrated background of closing the books timely and accurately with minimal or no audit adjustments
• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in a manufacturing environment
• Minimum of 3 years of experience leading teams and managing people
• Strong communication skills for interaction with all levels of the organization
• Technical capability to prepare, analyze, and interpret financial and operational data/reports
• Demonstrated analytical and thinking skills; Intellectual rigor and curiosity; problem-solving capability
• Experience in a high accountability/metrics-driven environment
• Previous working knowledge of Sarbanes-Oxley