Controller

About the role

The Controller reports to the CFO, and is responsible for accurately processing and recording the daily business transactions of the company. Additionally, the Controller is responsible for directing the financial functions of the corporation in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and in accordance with appropriate financial management techniques and practices. The Controller is responsible for the overall management of the accounting department.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the confidence of the corporation's shareholders, lenders and board members through timely, accurate, and reliable financial reporting
• Support financial reporting by creating the monthly accounting reporting package and performing key variance analysis
• Partner across internal teams, solving complex business scenarios
• Identify, create, and perform key internal controls
• Own the month-end close process, including preparation of monthly journal entries, reserves and accruals; and reconciliation of balance sheet account
• Have knowledge of government bid process regarding TINA and CAS compliance
• Percent complete (POC) understanding in a manufacturing environment
• Overhead rate development for internal and external bids and associated inventory valuation
• Annual development and review of overhead rates
• Ensure profitable commercial contracts and customer deal analysis
• Extensive knowledge and experience with technical US GAAP, intercompany accounting and consolidation, and internal control development and documentation
• Support all other functional areas with world class metrics (KPI's) that helps them achieve their objectives
• Partner with GM's in understanding financial results and implementing working capital improvement initiatives

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive industry experience in accounting
• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting
• Government contract bid/ pricing experience
• CPA / or high-level GAAP accounting skills, with POC (Percent of Completion) accounting
• High level monthly financial close expertise with multi-division consolidation.
• Product costing and inventory valuation expertise
• Strong leadership of accounting with proven financial managements skills with operational leaders in the divisions

Skills

• Ability to set priorities, meet deadlines, and multitask
• Excellent organization skills with strong attention to detail
• Excellent teamwork skills and high degree of initiative required
• Excellent communication both written and verbal
• Must be proficient with MS Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook)
• Working knowledge of ERP systems
• Excellent interpersonal and teamwork capabilities
• CPA license preferred