Job Title: Divisional Controller

Kanawha Scales & Systems, a division of American Equipment Holdings, is one of the leading Industrial Weighing solutions providers in the United States.

We believe our people matter, which is why we are committed to providing our team members with competitive wages, attractive benefit offerings, and abundant training opportunities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with divisional accounting teams to ensure proper internal controls, adherence to policies and procedures, protect assets and develop strong financial discipline.
• Produce timely, accurate and actionable financial statements on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis.
• Lead job costing and manufacturing accounting consistency across all businesses.
• Develop strong accounting practices around recording and invoicing service technician activities and parts inventory management.
• Lead the financial integration of multiple acquired companies and implement common finance processes, procedures, and controls.
• Develop GAAP-compliant finance processes and systems that serve business needs and successfully pass compliance and audit standards.
• Build finance teams at both the division and corporate level with competent, talented, and high-performing individuals to ensure stable and trustworthy financial operations and reports.

Requirements:

• Strong team leadership skills and promoting comradery and teamwork with geographically dispersed team members.
• Successfully led the business and finance integration projects of multiple acquired companies during a single accounting period.
• Strong numerical proficiency in mathematics, statistics, and other quantitative disciplines.
• Strong experience in operating with disparate accounting systems and platforms.
• Strong understanding and application of GAAP.
• Experience in system integration, data cleansing, and BI warehouses.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced environment and creating structured processes in an unstructured environment.
• Strong capabilities with ERP, experience in major platforms such as NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics 365, SAP, SAGE, Infor.
• Hold a current Certified Public Accountant, Certified Financial Advisor or similar certification is a plus.
• Minimum 5 years' experience in private equity or corporate finance planning and analysis role.
• Minimum 3 years' experience supervising finance team staff.
• Strong background in Percent Project Completion Accounting methods, rules, and schedules to ensure all active projects are billed and collected over the course of production.
• Fluency in English language – able to speak and type - multilingual a plus.
• Speak to customers in a professional and respectful etiquette, even in interactions of stress, complaint, or urgency.
• Create perfectly accurate transactions in company information technology systems.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or work comparable experience.
• 5 years of work-related experience.
• Experience with manufacturing operations preferred.
• Understanding of branch locations preferred.
• Private equity ownership and acquisitions experience a plus.

What You Need to Be Successful:

• Strong attention to detail.
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills, primarily relating to developing and maintaining financial models.
• Experience in financial forecasting.
• Experience in creating company-wide annual budgets.
• Excellent presentation skills and the ability to prepare professional written and oral presentations regarding financial and operational analysis.
• Comfortable offering your opinion, even if it differs from those around you.
• Open to listening to and considering opinions that differ from your own.
• Experience with Private Equity-backed companies is a plus.

Required Education:

• BS Finance or related quantitative field required.
• MS Finance or related quantitative field preferred.