Corporate Controller

Key Responsibilities

• Own the accuracy, timeliness, and integrity of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements in accordance with GAAP.
• Design, implement, and maintain a strong internal control framework across corporate and plant-level operations.
• Lead the monthly close process, establishing consistent procedures, timelines, and accountability across all entities.
• Manage multi-entity consolidations, intercompany accounting, and eliminations processes across all operating entities.
• Develop, document, and enforce accounting policies, procedures, and standard operating practices.
• Serve as primary liaison with external auditors and tax advisors.
• Proactively identify control gaps, financial risks, and process inefficiencies; lead remediation and continuous improvement efforts.

Inventory Management & Cost Accounting

• Oversee inventory accounting across multiple manufacturing facilities, including raw materials, WIP, and finished goods.
• Ensure integrity of standard costing methodologies, BOMs, routings, labor rates, and overhead absorption.
• Lead periodic cost updates, manufacturing variance analysis, and margin reviews.
• Partner with operations and supply chain leadership to improve manufacturing KPIs including inventory turns, cycle counts, excess and obsolete inventory tracking, labor efficiency, scrap reduction, absorption performance, and gross margin improvement.
• Strengthen inventory controls, valuation accuracy, and reconciliation processes across all sites.

Financial Analysis & Business Partnership

• Deliver actionable financial analysis to support operational decision-making, pricing strategies, capital investments, and productivity initiatives.
• Lead working capital and cash management initiatives, including cash flow visibility, inventory optimization, receivables management, and treasury reporting.
• Analyze and communicate manufacturing variances (material, labor, overhead, yield, scrap) to plant and executive leadership.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning with a deep understanding of operational cost drivers.
• Develop standardized KPIs, dashboards, and reporting packages that enhance visibility into manufacturing and financial performance.

ERP Transformation & Finance Automation

• Serve as a finance leader for ERP initiatives, including system selection, implementation, upgrades, and post-go-live optimization.
• Drive standardization of chart of accounts, cost structures, inventory processes, and financial reporting across sites within the ERP environment.
• Partner with IT and operations to improve data integrity, master data governance, and system controls.
• Lead finance automation initiatives focused on accelerating close timelines and reporting cycles, improving data accuracy, and increasing process automation.
• Identify and implement tools and technologies to reduce manual effort, improve accuracy, and enhance real-time financial insight.
• Ensure finance processes are scalable and aligned with future growth, acquisitions, and operational complexity.
• Support acquisition and new entity integration efforts, including financial process alignment, ERP integration, internal controls, and reporting standardization.

Leadership & Team Development

• Hands-on leadership approach with the ability to operate both strategically and tactically.
• Build a scalable accounting organization capable of supporting growth, acquisitions, and increasing organizational complexity.
• Establish clear roles, responsibilities, and performance expectations for the corporate accounting team.
• Promote a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and ownership.
• Develop talent through coaching, training, and succession planning within the accounting organization.