Assistant Controller/Controller

About the role

Emerge is a global talent solutions company working with clients worldwide. We deliver talent, recruiting expertise, managed sales, marketing, and business operations solutions to our clients. These solutions are an extension of your existing operations. We are committed to your success, working quickly and efficiently to provide tangible, measurable results.

Job Responsibilities

• Responsible for location compliance (financial reporting, adherence to all GAAP, SOX, and company policies and procedures).
• Practice risk management and ASAT compliance for all aspects of controls.
• Provide financial leadership and data analysis for the development of actions and alternatives used in management decision-making.
• Preparation of budgets and forecasting and corresponding financial accountability.
• Developing financial acumen in the location lead team.
• Identifying key levers to drive business improvement and providing leadership to ensure implementation of business improvement opportunities.
• Determining, in conjunction with plant management, targeted goals for performance measures of quality, productivity, delivery, cycle time, inventory optimization and profitability.
• Deploying business unit initiatives.
• Forecasting, planning and analyzing business results.
• Complying with company and business unit financial reporting requirements.
• Cordination of the capital appropriation process and post-project reviews.
• Ensuring completion of company’s Sarbanes-Oxley requirements for internal controls.
• Supervising department employees.

Key Skills

• Enterprise minded: Understands the needs of the business and how decisions affect P&L, balance sheet and future capabilities; influences cap-ex based on a broad business case.
• Responsive expertise: Prepared with information to help guide decision-making, both upon request and for future planning.
• Compliance: Organized and aware of legal and local ramifications of decisions and practices; proactively prepared for audits.
• Data-oriented: Anticipates and solves problems from a data-informed perspective; forecasts accurately and tracks closely; intervenes in ways that influence numbers.
• Involved and curious: Spends time on the shop floor to understand the business in greater detail; seeks to make improvements and strengthen partnerships through relationship and comprehension; understands operational consequences of decisions.
• Analysis: Reviews decisions and data ex post facto to glean increased understanding; incorporates learning into future decision-making.
• Accountability: Compares business case to actual performance and collaborates with other leaders to ensure the success of investments.
• Interpretation and translation: Able to tell a story with the data; brings life to the numbers through observation and familiarity with the business.
• Prioritization: Understands market and organizational conditions and prioritizes efforts accordingly; manages tension between revenue and costs, etc.
• Communication: Proactively provides information about data, forecasting and financials to enable the best possible decision-making for individual leaders and the organization; seeks information from others and disseminates accordingly as a conduit or hub.
• Coach/Mentor/Manager: Formally and informally develops others and contributes to talent factory strategy; provides direction, review, reassurance, encouragement, challenge, and recognition on an individual basis; promotes growth and development in associates; inspires risk; continually assesses and reassesses talent and fit to role based on individual and collective performance.

Minimum Qualifications

• BS in Business Administration and/or Finance Accounting from an accredited institution.
• Seven (7) years related financial/controllership work experience, a minimum of four (4) years in a manufacturing environment.
• Employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• Experience with project accounting software.
• MBA, CMA and/or CPA.
• Previous roles requiring SOX compliance and adherence to GAAP policies.
• Plant Controller experience for a manufacturing facility.
• High proficiency in using MS Office software; experience with Oracle, Hyperion, or similar systems; project management; multi-tasking; and developing/executing data queries.
• Strong analytical, decision-making, and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects with tight deadlines in a high-pressure/high-intensity environment.
• Strong cost accounting skills (Multi-level Routing and Bill of Material Cost Accounting Experience).
• Ability to dig for details and work on challenging projects.
• Ability to communicate complex financial information in an easy-to-understand manner to non-finance personnel.

Salary & Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision and more - eligible from day one + excellent 401(K) match - vested from day one.