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Controller

Hickory Harvest Foods
Akron, OH Full Time
POSTED ON 3/19/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/18/2025
Job Description

Controller – Hickory Harvest Foods

Are you a collaborative team player looking for an opportunity with a company that values family, integrity, quality, and community? Do you possess strong accounting skills and a desire to work with the executive management team of a high-growth 3rd generation family-owned business? If this fits your career aspirations, we have a great opportunity for you to join our dynamic leadership team as the Corporate Controller.

Company Overview

Hickory Harvest Foods is a leading provider of products to retailers in the multi-billion-dollar healthy snacks sector. The Hickory Harvest Way has been and remains to be about our family and our family of employees that has supported us since our humble beginnings in 1972.

Today, we are a successful snack provider with annual double-digit growth, nearly 100 employees, in-house packaging, and manufacturing options, and 250 high-quality snack varieties. We are committed to manufacturing healthy and savory snacks beginning with premium ingredients, roasting to perfection, and delivering fresh, consistent products to our customers.

Position Summary

We have a great opportunity for a Controller to join our management team. The Controller for Hickory Harvest Foods will play three very important roles: (1) a steward, managing risk and preserving assets, (2) a hands-on operator, running an efficient and effective finance operation and (3) a catalyst, helping to drive operational improvements.

Reporting to the President of the Company, this highly visible position will work closely with Production, Procurement, Sales, and Quality to help drive growth and customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities

  • Responsible for accounting operations including regulatory/accounting rules, inventory management, cost accounting, internal controls verification, and revenue and expense recognition.
  • Manage daily accounting functions (A/R, A/P, GL) and external IT.
  • Prepare and publish timely financial statements.
  • Responsible for cash management and risk management activities.
  • Develop reporting for management with relevant data, information, dashboards, metrics & incisive commentary vital to the decision-making process to affect positive change.
  • Manage relationships with banks, and outside accountants.
  • Develop policies and processes to ensure the controllership delivers on stakeholders’ foundational demands for accurate and timely financial information while simultaneously refocusing the function to aid in the growth equation.
  • Work closely with Director of Operations to help drive operational improvements, assist with implementing production standards and productions goals.
  • Provides analysis for capital investments, cost pricing decisions, new business/customer acquistion and contract negotiations.
  • Develop efficient budgeting and financial reporting processes so that the business is scalable.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or business. CPA or MBA is preferred.
  • Progressively responsible related experience as a Controller or Accounting Manager
  • Working knowledge of inventory management and cost accounting
  • Fluency in Microsoft Office suite, Sage 100, Tableau and Access
  • Working knowledge of GAAP.
  • Strong written, verbal and collaboration skills. Ability to effectively communicate complex financial data to business leaders that can easily be translated to actionable plans.

Interested candidates should submit their resume to Mark White at mark@hrptalent.com

Company Description

Hickory Harvest Foods is a leading provider of products to retailers in the multi-billion-dollar healthy snacks sector. The Hickory Harvest Way has been and remains to be about our family and our family of employees that has supported us since our humble beginnings in 1972.

Today, we are a successful snack provider with annual double-digit growth, nearly 100 employees, in-house packaging, and manufacturing options, and 250 high-quality snack varieties. We are committed to manufacturing healthy and savory snacks beginning with premium ingredients, roasting to perfection, and delivering fresh, consistent products to our customers.

Hickory Harvest Foods is a leading provider of products to retailers in the multi-billion-dollar healthy snacks sector. The Hickory Harvest Way has been and remains to be about our family and our family of employees that has supported us since our humble beginnings in 1972. Today, we are a successful snack provider with annual double-digit growth, nearly 100 employees, in-house packaging, and manufacturing options, and 250 high-quality snack varieties. We are committed to manufacturing healthy and savory snacks beginning with premium ingredients, roasting to perfection, and delivering fresh, consistent products to our customers.

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