Controller

About the role

Position Summary United Felts (UF) — the largest operating business unit within Vortex Products, a Quad-C Management portfolio company — is seeking a hands-on Controller to own the accuracy, timeliness, and audit-readiness of its financial statements. This role sits at the center of a finance organization being built from the ground up, and will partner directly with the SVP Finance, business unit leadership, and Corporate/sponsor reporting teams to bring GAAP-compliant, standardized accounting discipline to a multi-location manufacturing business. The ideal candidate combines strong technical accrual accounting fundamentals with the operational maturity to build process where little exists today, and the judgment to support a PE-backed reporting cadence without losing sight of the numbers’ underlying accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Own the United Felts monthly close process end-to-end, adhering to the corporate close calendar (BD3–BD10 submission cadence, with BD1, BD5, and BD6 internal review checkpoints).
• Prepare and review journal entries, account reconciliations, and supporting schedules in accordance with US GAAP.
• Maintain and continuously improve monthly accrual roll‑forwards — including Inventory Allowance, Claims/Warranty, Bad Debt Allowance, Commissions, Bonus, Real Estate & Personal Property Taxes, Marketing/Advertising, and Health Insurance Deficit — with each schedule tying to actual vs. budget on documented, defensible assumptions.
• Apply ASC 606 percentage‑of‑completion revenue recognition accurately across UF’s project‑ and contract‑based revenue streams.
• Own the integrity of P&L‑by‑location reporting across UF’s manufacturing and wet‑out facility network, ensuring revenue, cost, and margin are captured and allocated correctly at the location level.
• Partner with the SVP Finance to produce audit‑ready Adjusted EBITDA reporting each month, including full support and documentation for EBITDA addbacks (transition costs, M&A, restructuring, and other one‑time normalization items).
• Support a financial statement flow that walks cleanly from Revenue through Net Income, the EBITDA bridge (interest, taxes, depreciation & amortization), and the addback schedule to Adjusted EB