Divisional/Plant Controller

Responsibilities

• Direct the accounting work associated with the business separation, ensuring assets, transactions, and financial responsibilities are assigned accurately across entities.
• Collaborate with leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to evaluate records, clarify ownership matters, and support well-documented separation decisions.
• Design and implement a framework for splitting accounting operations, including account structures, reporting flows, and allocation approaches.
• Establish financial processes that support independent operations for each entity while maintaining strong controls and clear accountability.
• Prepare separation-related accounting documentation to support audit readiness and future financial review requirements.
• Lead efforts to organize and transfer accounting activities to an external or shared-services support model, including process mapping and operational handoff planning.
• Support month-end close activities, balance sheet analysis, and financial reporting throughout the transition period.
• Provide practical guidance in a fast-moving onsite environment while partnering with executives, ownership, and operational management on key accounting decisions.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience in controllership, accounting management, or a similar financial leadership role.
• Background supporting carve-outs, divestitures, entity separations, or other complex business restructuring initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of month-end close, financial reporting, and balance sheet review processes.
• Experience working in multi-entity environments with responsibility for consolidations, allocations, or financial separation activities.
• Ability to succeed in an evolving setting that requires hands-on execution, sound judgment, and process creation.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively with senior executives, owners, and operational stakeholders.
• Construction, general contracting, or project-based accounting experience is preferred.

Qualifications

Availability to work onsite in Saint Louis, Missouri for the duration of the engagement.

Skills

Controllership, accounting management, complex business restructuring, multi-entity environments, consolidation, allocations, financial separation activities, hands-on execution, sound judgment, process creation, communication, senior executives, owners, operational stakeholders, construction, general contracting, project-based accounting.

Benefits

Medical, vision, dental, and life and disability insurance. Hired contract/temporary professionals are also eligible to enroll in our company 401(k) plan.

Pay

N/A

Schedule

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