Assistant Unit Controller

About the role

The Assistant Unit Controller is a strategic business partner to the Business Unit Controller and cross-functional leadership team. Your primary focus will be to assist in planning, coordinating, and administering the Accounting and FP&A activities, including recording information, reporting financial results, and ensuring strong internal controls.

Responsibilities

• Assist in planning, coordinating, and administering the Accounting and FP&A activities, including recording information, reporting financial results, and ensuring strong internal controls.
• Analyze all aspects of financial operations including manufacturing and cost performance, cash flow, deviations in operating results from prior year and plan, and help formulate insightful financial analysis.
• Partner with key business partners to drive the financial planning process and “get underneath” the numbers to identify trends and drivers.
• Partner with the Business Unit Controller in maintaining the company's financial, management, and compliance reporting functions.
• Owns periodic management reporting and analysis package and drives the standardization of reporting metrics across the organization.
• Leads the close process and prepares budgets, forecasts, and cash flow projections to guide the financial management of the business unit.
• Drive balance sheet and P&L forecasting and assist the BU Controller with implementing the forecast across the business, including willingness and ability to take a stand to ensure the integrity of the forecast.
• Manage audits of business units' financials, as well as internal and external audit requirements and US Sarbanes Oxley-404 (SOX) testing and compliance.
• Owns quarterly review of all SOX controls.
• Ensure overall compliance with GAAP and other regulatory or governmental requirements as well as Corporate policies and procedures.
• Manage elements of Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, and Make to Order transactional flow and activity.
• Review proposals for economic justification.
• Participate in strategic planning process, support shared services groups, and assist with payroll processing.
• Possess a strong desire to drive process creation, effective change management, and organizational adoption of technology solutions.
• Provide suggestions on decisive action to resolve problems or pursue opportunities.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and leadership skills, with a proven ability to manage staff and develop talent.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance.
• Lead accounting/finance role within the manufacturing industry preferred.
• University graduation or professional certification (CPA preferred).
• Inter-company trading experience is highly desired.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills to conduct complex and comprehensive financial analysis, assessment, and evaluation of financial reporting activities.