Controller

Principal Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the monthly financial close process to ensure accurate and timely results.
• Ensure all close procedures are followed; prepare and post journal entries; promptly identify and resolve close-related issues.
• Monitor mill accrual accounts to ensure balances are properly stated at month-end.
• Prepare or review monthly balance sheet reconciliations, including corrective actions as needed.
• Lead the annual budget (OP&B) process in partnership with the Plant Manager and department leaders, ensuring alignment with business sector strategy and validating assumptions to support spending requests.
• Assist in the preparation and financial analysis of capital appropriation requests for capital expenditures and major repair projects.
• Review all plant capital project requests, providing a thorough cost-benefit analysis, including Economic Value Added (EVA) impact.
• Ensure all projects are properly accounted for, appropriately justified, and fully auditable.
• Collaborate with internal auditors, external auditors, and corporate staff departments as required to support audit activities, compliance initiatives, and continuous improvement efforts.

Specialized/Technical Knowledge Or Required Skills

• Demonstrates strong knowledge across key financial and operational disciplines, including finance, general, managerial, and cost accounting; manufacturing operations; local and state taxation; auditing; capital budgeting; financial analysis; business reporting; Economic Value Added (EVA); information technology; and company policies and procedures.

Education

Bachelor's in Accounting