Controller

About the Role

Responsible for the overall accounting operation, including financial reporting and budgeting.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the overall operation of accounting, including financial reports and budget.
• Provide oversight, management, and evaluation of accounting staff (including payroll administrator).
• Ensure accounting personnel are properly trained, motivated, and directed to fulfill their responsibilities.
• Review all journal entries for financial statements.
• Analyze financial statements and prepare special reports.
• Review accounts payable and receivable for accuracy.
• Evaluate credit applications and oversee collection efforts.
• Ensure compliance with periodic financial audits.
• Comply with company policies and procedures.
• Perform additional duties as assigned by management.

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree with a focus on accounting and/or finance.
• Five to ten years of experience managing a financial/accounting department.
• Three years of experience in a manufacturing-related environment.
• Proven ability to analyze financial statements and identify potential problems.

Preferred Qualifications

• CPA certification.
• Experience in the corrugated industry.
• Experience in cash management.
• Good communication skills.

Skills

Language Skills

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret financial statements, general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, contracts, and government regulations.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, vendors, customers, and the general public.

Mathematical Skills

• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, volume, and net present value.
• Ability to evaluate financial alternatives and recognize and interpret financial trends and performance.

Reasoning Ability

• 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.

Technical Skills

• Computer literate (MS Office including Word and Excel as well as accounting software).
• Proficient knowledge and application of accounting principles.
• Knowledge of tax codes and regulatory requirements.
• Familiarity with quality standards – both ISO and QS.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the functions of this job.

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to walk, talk, hear, and sit.
• Vision requirements include: close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Leadership Attributes

• Superior time management skills, including the ability to manage multiple issues concurrently and lead effective and efficient meetings.
• Superior communication and teaching skills to function effectively as a teacher for accounting personnel.
• Excellent crisis management skills, demonstrating high emotional control under adverse conditions and the ability to lead personnel to successful resolutions.
• Excellent employee relations skills, including active listening, personnel appraisal, applying both positive and corrective feedback, conflict resolution, and demonstrating positive motivational skills such as coaching and delegation.
• Demonstrated confidence, including providing a consistent leadership style with an acceptable level of professional assertiveness.
• Professional appearance to support the role as a managerial representative.

Performance Measurements

• Operating standards: Meet or exceed the Operating Standards set in areas of quality, cost, safety, planning, customer satisfaction, supervision, efficiency, and productivity. Standards are set annually and communicated to the manager.
• Personal growth: Develop and agree to professional goals annually with the supervisor.
• Employee relations: Evaluated on skills and advancements in motivational techniques, feedback (positive and corrective/constructive), subordinate development, and creating a positive work environment.
• Creativity: Evaluated on active participation in advancing the business through new and innovative ideas.