Financial Controller

Job Title: Controller

Department: Finance

Reports to: COO

Status: Exempt

Location: Corporate Offices in Chesaning, MI with occasional travel for company meetings and events

About This Role

The Controller will be responsible for working seamlessly with people across the organization to ensure accurate financial control and reporting.

Essential Responsibilities

·        Establishing, communicating and refining financial policies, procedures, controls, and reporting systems

·        Reconcile and analyze balance sheet accounts to ensure transactions are recorded accurately and account balances are accurately stated in accordance with GAAP and Company policy including journal entries and account reconciliations.

·        Prepare consolidated internal and external financial statements by gathering and analyzing information from the general ledger system and from departments

·        Monitor funds for payment of payroll, taxes, and cash position

·        Perform accounting analyses and reporting functions

·        Prepare/maintain/review monthly (in compliance with US GAAP) financial statements, including income statements, balance sheets, equity roll forward, cash flows and various management reports, ensuring accuracy and consistency with accounting standards.

·        Manage and prepare the month-end close process, including review of journal entries, account reconciliations and account analyses in a timely manner

·        Manage and prepare year end closing information

·        Administer all accounting operations including Billing, A/R, A/P, GL and Counsel, Construction Accounting, and Revenue Recognition

·        Enhance and implement financial and accounting systems, processes, tools and control systems with the goal of maximum utility to the executive team and other departmental leaders

·        Serve as a key point of contact for external auditors; Manage preparation and support of all external audits.

·        Manage the cash flow planning process and ensure funds availability.

·        Interpret, develop, implement, and monitor all accounting policies, processes, and procedures. Provide counsel on accounting-related issues, disclosure obligations related to business transactions and financial statements.

·        Develop processes, systems, and tools for accounting, internal controls, reporting, billing/credit/collections, cash management, procure to pay, and order to cash policies and procedures. Ensure compliance with all policies and requirements and provide accurate, timely, and useful management reports. Ensure strong internal controls are developed, implemented and maintained.

·        Oversee cash management and serve as a primary point of contact on commercial banking relationships

·        Monitor debt and credit, pursue collections

·        Experience with legal entities consolidation, intercompany eliminations

·        Hands-on partner to Management Team for business planning, financial forecasting, budgets, and management reporting activities

·        Research technical accounting issues for compliance

·        Establishing, monitoring and enforcing internal controls

·        Ad hoc projects and special reporting as needed

·        Management of financial team members including interviewing candidates for any open positions, training new team members, and managing the performance of team members.

Preferred Experience and Education

• Strong accounting, analytical, and research skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Strong knowledge of tax code, compliance and procedures for corporations.
• Familiarity with U.S. federal, state and local reporting requirements.
• Strong experience with a variety of financial, accounting and tax operations and ability to drive process improvements.
• Strong ability to utilize project management and accounting best practices to organize and prioritize tasks and the tasks of other finance team members.
• Ability to work well independently as well as the ability to work well with stakeholders and communicate the benefits of finance initiatives.
• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance; master’s degree preferred
• CPA preferred but not required
• Minimum 7-10 years of experience in an accounting or finance role
• 3 Years of people management
• Manufacturing, distribution, or consumer packaged goods experience is preferred

·        Experience with intercompany activity, consolidations, inventory management, and taxes is preferred

• Strong understanding of US GAAP
• Experience working with a variety of legal and regulatory entities

·        Experience working with financial software to manage company finances.

• Ability to explain complex or technical financial subjects to a non-technical audience

Why You’d Love This Role

You have:

·        A passion for numbers and working with them

·        A great eye for accuracy and attention to detail

You are:

·        A responsible individual with a high degree of professionalism and confidentiality

·        Able to work on a variety of tasks with little direction, shift priorities as needed, and are excited to grow with an expanding company

·        A team player able to communicate clearly to people that are not ‘numbers people’ what is required and/or what the numbers are saying

Physical Requirements

• Regularly spend long hours in intense concentration, sitting and using office equipment and computers
• Occasionally lift 5-10 pounds

We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), or any other legally protected status.