Assistant Controller

Salary: $110,000 - 130,000 DOE

Location: Fairlawn, OH

My client located in Fairlawn is seeking an experienced, collaborative, energetic, and effective individual to join its management team as Assistant Controller. As a key member the team, your expertise in accounting will be essential in providing support to departmental management, developing staff, financial reporting, and external auditor and regulatory support. This role will report directly to the Corporate Controller, while working in partnership with the Plant Controller. This position has high visibility within the organization with opportunities to interact and work closely with C-level executives and management to provide information to help make critical decisions about various financial aspects of the business. If you are highly detail-oriented, intrinsically motivated and share a passion for quality in everything you do, you might be perfect for my clients growing team!

Key Responsibilities:

• Timely and accurate monthly closing of the consolidated financial statements. 

• Assist with management of all aspects of the general ledger

• Enhance efficiency and automation of financial reporting and closings in partnership with the Controller, operations, and IT. Having a strong IT systems approach is a plus.

• Perform reconciliations of monthly, quarterly and year-end account balances

• Provide monthly, quarterly and year-end analyses and / or partner with Company personnel to complete, compile and perform such analyses

• Coordinating and assisting with the budget process annually including updates monthly for actual results comparison and forecasting

• Research accounting issues for compliance with generally accepted accounting principles

• Serve as a liaison to external auditors quarterly and annually. 

• Establish and maintain internal controls in accordance with J-SOX (Japanese Sarbanes-Oxley) requirements

• Identify and resolve inaccuracies or imbalances in accounting information

• Other duties may be required.

Key Requirements:

• 5 years of experience in the manufacturing industry. 

• 4 years of experience in public accounting serving the manufacturing industry.

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance; MBA a plus

• CPA Certification a plus

• Strong working knowledge of all aspects of accounting including: general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, fixed assets, payroll, and so on

• Experience in preparing consolidated financial statements a plus

• Experience with foreign currency translation a plus

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Effective communication skills and works well with others

• Must be able to work independently, at times, and with limited direction

• Experience with at least one company that has revenue more than $100 million a plus

• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office products and ERP; System21 knowledge a plus