Controller

Santa Barbara, California (In office) • Exempt

About the role

Responsible for day-to-day accounting and financial reporting functions, ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of financial information and maintaining strong, efficient, progressive accounting systems and procedures. The ideal candidate serves as a key partner to executive leadership on financial matters.

Responsibilities

• Prepares timely month-end results (10th workday following month-end for MBR and 12th workday following month-end for MBI) and explains deviations from budget, plan, or forecast.
• Establishes financial and accounting policies and executes best practices that expand investment opportunities, forecasts, taxes, internal controls, banking, budgeting, and risk management.
• Reports, analyzes, and interprets highly complex financial and operating data for the MarBorg companies, including cost, profitability, and pricing analyses, as well as any other ad hoc analyses of interest to management.
• Prepares and presents annual budgets for MBR with assistance.
• Manages and prepares for annual financial audits, audit management letters, and coordinates with auditors.
• Initiates and approves reports required by tax and regulatory agencies.
• Analyzes, recommends, and implements upgrades and improvements to accounting systems and accounting control procedures.
• Keeps proper financial records and accounts in an orderly manner.
• Initiates and advises management regarding insurance coverage for risk management protection against property losses and potential liabilities.
• Serves as a 401(k)-plan administrator.
• Cash management including initiating, with ownership approval, transfers, lines of credit, ACH, wires, and release of cash.
• Advises management on desirable operational adjustments due to tax code revisions.
• Directly manages and develops the Accounting Manager by providing priorities, expectations, coaching, and accountability.
• Partners with Accounting Manager to ensure effective management of the broader accounting team by motivating and developing a team of accounting professionals to grow their careers through enhancing processes, developing technical capabilities, and solving problems.
• Manages the Accounting Manager, who oversees the day-to-day activities and management of the remainder of the accounting team.

Requirements

• Ten (10) years of extensive experience in accounting or auditing at the full performance level, including Controller and supervisory experience.
• Demonstrated experience managing financial close, financial statement preparation, and methods of financial control and reporting.
• Knowledge of internal control and audit principles, GAAP, and financial reporting requirements.
• Financial administration and debt management.
• Knowledge of pertinent federal, state, and local regulations.
• Relevant experience with automated accounting systems.
• Ability to analyze, interpret, and communicate complex financial and accounting issues in both oral and written form.
• Ability to handle financial, payroll, project, and confidential information.
• Ability to lead and develop an accounting team through direct report management structure.
• Experience with investment management and credit facilities.
• Strong leadership, interpersonal, and organizational skills; ability to be self-directed and politically savvy.
• Protects operations by keeping financial information and plans confidential.
• Must have excellent work habits, willing to work the hours necessary to meet important deadlines when greater than normal departmental pressures arise.
• Extensive knowledge of accounting/ERP systems, Excel, and Word.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in accounting, finance, or business administration or related field is required.
• A master’s degree in accounting, finance, or business administration or related field is highly desirable.
• Certified Public Accountant is a plus.
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills, including the ability to read, comprehend, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the public.
• Ability to perform mathematical equations and summaries for reviewing and reporting statistical, forecasting, and budgetary information.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Core Competencies

• Doing Good – (Code of Conduct).
• Making Good – (Accountability, responsibility, and ownership for a problem).
• Treating People Well – (Works cooperatively and effectively with others).
• Environmentally Focused (Employee takes initiative as a LEED building initiative to preserve and improve our local environment for future generations).
• Observant (Employee can identify safety or operational deficiencies to quickly implement a correction).
• Safety Matters (Employee actively participates and promotes a safe and healthy workplace).
• Analytical, judgement, strategy, change management, integrity, problem solving, leadership, business acumen.

Physical Demands

• Primary functions require the physical ability and mobility to work in an office and stand or sit for prolonged periods of time.
• Occasional bending, kneeling, crouching, reaching, and twisting; to lift, carry, or push, and/or pull light to moderate amounts of weight not to exceed 25 pounds.
• Requires repetitive hand movement and fine coordination, including use of a computer keyboard.
• Requires verbal communication to exchange information.

Work Environment

• Drug-free & alcohol-free office environment in an industrial location.
• Exposure to moving mechanical parts, fumes, or airborne particles, and outside weather conditions.
• Occasional exposure to wet and/or humid conditions; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; and vibration.
• The noise level in the work environment can be loud and dirty.
• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) such as gloves, safety footwear, and a hard hat is required when visiting other locations.

Pay

$175,000–$225,000 yearly

Schedule

8:00 AM – 5:00 PM