What are the responsibilities and job description for the Plant Controller position at TVS SUPPLY CHAIN SOLUTIONS NORTH AMERICA, INC.?
Accounting Controller
Summary
The Accounting Controller oversees all areas related to financial reporting. This role involves developing and maintaining accounting policies, principles, practices, and procedures to ensure that financial statements are accurate and timely. This position handles tight deadlines and a range of accounting activities, including general ledger preparation, financial reporting, year-end audit support, and assistance with budget and forecasting activities. This role reports to our Corporate Controller and will oversee two site locations: Waterloo and Davenport, Iowa.
Essential Functions
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
- Manage full-cycle, monthly financial close within a strict reporting timeline, including preparation of internal financial statements and balance sheet reconciliations.
- Supports plant and operation managers by providing timely and accurate financial data and analysis.
- Safeguard company assets by developing, enforcing, and monitoring internal controls.
- Support the annual budgeting process and periodic forecasting process by collecting and analyzing financial data.
- Ensure corporate income tax compliance by maintaining accurate and up-to-date books and records to facilitate the timely completion of all corporate income tax returns, including the preparation of tax provisions.
- Manage the full-cycle payroll process, ensuring all employees (over 200) are paid weekly.
- Manage the procure-to-pay cycle, ensuring strict adherence to vendor control and timely payment to all vendors.
- Manage order to cash cycle ensuring customers are invoiced timely to collection of cash receipts.
- Lead and manage the treasury function, including stringent cash management and forecasting requirements.
- Prepares ad hoc and other special reports as needed.
- Ensure compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations.
- Liaison to internal and external auditors.
- Participate in all TVS SCS quality and excellence initiatives.
Competencies
- Thoroughness
- Attention to detail
- Communication proficiency
- Personal effectiveness /credibility
- Initiative
- Time management
- Financial management
- Collaboration skills
- Teamwork orientation
- Adaptability
- Ethical practices
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear and sit or stand. The associate may occasionally be required to lift 51 pounds; anything greater than 51 pounds requires assistance. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment
This job is performed in an on-site office within a manufacturing environment. There may be heavy forklift traffic and seasonal temperature changes. Employees must wear steel-toed shoes and vests as part of their personal protective equipment (PPE) while in the production/manufacturing area.
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work
Full-Time, Exempt. Flexibility in scheduling is necessary for extended or unplanned work hours. Consistent and reliable attendance is required at work.
Travel
This role requires splitting time between two primary locations approximately two hours apart. Up to 50% of the travel commitment is expected to be travel between sites, including routine travel to ensure effective management and collaboration.
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance
- 5 years of progressive finance and accounting experience
- Excellent listening, verbal, and written communication skills
- Advanced computer proficiency with MS Office, Outlook, Kronos, and Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains
- Knowledge of financial, accounting, and budgeting principles, including generally accepted accounting principles and IFRS 16
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA) license preferred
Other Duties
Please note that this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time, with or without notice.
TVS SCS NA is committed to cultivating a diverse and inclusive culture as an EEO employer. The TVS SCS NA team does not discriminate against candidates and employees because of their disability, sex, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, age, veteran status, or any other protected status under the law within any employment practices. We are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations to applicants; please contact [Hope Molyneaux, JMolyneaux@tvsscs.com] to request a reasonable accommodation. The employee selected for this role must be able to perform the position's essential functions satisfactorily. If requested, reasonable accommodation will be made to enable employees with disabilities to perform the essential functions of their job, absent undue hardship.
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