Controller (Manufacturing)

Job Details

This position is responsible for managing the organization’s day-to-day financial compliance and reporting while partnering with senior finance leadership to oversee broader financial operations. Working closely with executive and operational leaders, this role provides the financial insight, guidance, and reporting necessary to support effective day-to-day operations and long-term business objectives.

Essential Duties

• Partner with senior finance leadership to provide consistent direction across Accounting, Finance, Risk Management, and Treasury.
• Perform detailed financial analysis and provide informed, actionable recommendations.
• Support the development of a collaborative, high-performing finance and accounting team.
• Provide financial advice and guidance to executive leadership as needed.
• Mentor, coach, and develop accounting team members, encouraging continued professional growth and accountability.
• Help safeguard organizational assets, employees, and reputation through effective financial oversight and controls.
• Manage accounts, ledgers, and financial reporting systems while ensuring compliance with GAAP, regulatory requirements, financial institution requirements, and applicable third-party agreements.
• Establish and maintain financial and operating benchmarks, budgets, monitoring processes, and recurring reporting standards.
• Plan, direct, and coordinate accounting operations.
• Manage the consolidation of financial data required for accurate and timely interim results and financial statements.
• Provide comprehensive financial updates to senior leadership through analysis and reporting of key performance data.
• Lead and support M&A activities, including financial due diligence, integration planning, and post-acquisition reporting.
• Support capital raises, lender and investor reporting, financing negotiations, and related financial presentations.
• Oversee and coordinate external audits.
• Maintain consistent accounting policies, practices, and procedures while supporting compliance with applicable federal, state, and local legal and tax requirements.
• Develop and enforce internal controls, policies, procedures, and workflows designed to protect organizational assets.
• Guide financial decision-making by applying established policies and procedures within changing economic and business conditions.
• Support achievement of budgeting objectives through scheduling, analysis, guidance, and corrective actions.
• Oversee risk management activities related to property and liability insurance coverage.
• Manage day-to-day treasury activities, including cash management, compliance, and relationships with financial institutions.
• Oversee tax compliance and planning in collaboration with external advisors.
• Partner with Human Resources and other operational functions to establish, monitor, and report relevant financial and performance metrics.
• Take ownership of the development, operation, and control of financial systems across the organization.
• Oversee the maintenance and improvement of finance systems while contributing to new system implementations and control frameworks.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of progressive accounting leadership experience, including responsibility for financial reporting, budgeting, internal controls, and team leadership.
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting required. Master’s degree in Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field preferred.
• CPA certification preferred.
• Advanced to expert-level Microsoft Excel skills.
• Manufacturing industry experience, including cost and inventory accounting, strongly preferred.
• Experience supporting audits, banking relationships, tax compliance, treasury functions, and strategic financial initiatives such as acquisitions or financing transactions preferred.