Controller - Betco

Responsibilities

• Manage all operations of the accounting department, including the design of an organizational structure adequate for achieving the department's goals and objectives.
• Oversight of accounting operations including control systems, transaction-processing operations, and policies and procedures.
• Direct, assign and audit the work of the accounting staff to ensure that accounts payable are paid in a timely manner; ensure that accounts receivable are collected promptly; ensure that payroll is processed in a timely manner; ensure that monthly bank reconciliations are completed.
• Implement and/or maintain generally accepted accounting systems; maintain a documented system of accounting policies and procedures; maintain the chart of accounts and maintain an orderly accounting filing system.
• Prepare and analyze financial reports and journal entries, maintain and reconcile ledger accounts; issue timely and complete financial statements; recommend benchmarks against which to measure the performance of company operations; calculate and issue financial and operating metrics; manage the production of the annual budget and forecasts; calculate variances from the budget and report significant issues to management; provide for a system of management cost reports.
• Maintain accuracy of records of assets, liabilities and other financial transactions.
• Oversee all basic accounting procedures; financial statement preparation, month end closing; journal entries and general ledger maintenance, inventory roll forwards, fixed assets and margin analysis; supporting schedules for financial statements preparation; oversee all journal entries to ensure direct costs are allocated appropriately; maintain and update product costs in system.
• Review, analyze and reconcile general ledger accounts and transactions in conjunction with preparing quarterly reports for management.
• Coverage of all basic accounting procedures; financial statement preparation, month end closing; journal entries and general ledger maintenance, inventory roll forwards, fixed assets and margin analysis; supporting schedules for financial statements preparation; oversee all journal entries to ensure direct costs are allocated appropriately; maintain and update product costs in system.
• Coordinate the provision of information to external auditors for the annual financial and tax audit; provides accurate information for and complies with local, state, and federal government reporting requirements and tax filings.
• Provides financial analyses as needed, in particular for capital investments, pricing decisions, and contract negotiations; develops procedures to obtain accurate costing, reporting and analysis of inventory through the production process and end of period cost of goods manufactured.
• Handles financial reporting and analysis of purchase price variances, labor, yields, and overhead expenses.
• Maintains accounting for annual inventory, perpetual inventory, and analysis of variances.
• Performing analysis of operations on a monthly basis; analyzes actual manufacturing costs and prepares periodic reports comparing anticipated or targeted costs to actual production and incurred costs.

Qualifications

• Accounting degree required.
• Five or more years of previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience, preferably in manufacturing, construction or corporate accounting.
• Very strong computer skills required – e.g. financial systems and MS Office suite.