Financial Controller

What You Will Do

• Own all day-to-day accounting operations across Solesis business units: General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets, Treasury, and Payroll.
• Drive a disciplined month-, quarter-, and year-end close process - on time, every time, without compromising accuracy or completeness.
• Prepare, examine, and analyze financial statements (balance sheets, income statements, cash flow statements) for conformance to GAAP.
• Maintain a rigorous balance sheet reconciliation discipline across all entities.
• Assess and standardize accounting processes across all four business units.
• Identify and prioritize opportunities to reduce manual processes, improve data integrity, and increase the repeatability and scalability of accounting operations.
• Build and document accounting policies and procedures appropriate for a growing, PE-backed manufacturing organization.
• Design, implement, and enforce internal controls appropriate for a PE-backed, multi-site manufacturing environment.
• Serve as primary liaison and coordinator for external audit, internal audit, inventory audit, and fixed assets audit engagements.
• Support the external tax compliance team and ensure timely delivery of required inputs and schedules.
• Liaise with third-party lenders and ensure lender reporting obligations are met accurately and on schedule.
• Collaborate with the CFO, external advisors, and legal counsel to maintain the accounting framework for the Costa Rica entity, including intercompany transfer pricing and multi-currency consolidation.
• Lead accounting integration activities for acquired business units, including chart of accounts alignment, system onboarding, and reporting standardization.
• Support multi-entity consolidation reporting for the PE sponsor.
• Serve as a regular accounting point of contact for the PE sponsor’s finance and operations team.
• Prepare and deliver accurate, timely financial reporting packages consistent with sponsor requirements and cadence.
• Support due diligence and reporting requirements associated with add-on acquisitions or refinancing events.
• Partner with manufacturing operations leadership at Secant, Charter Medical, Polyzen, and Costa Rica to understand cost accounting needs and ensure accurate plant-level financial reporting.
• Oversee inventory accounting across manufacturing sites, including cycle count procedures, physical inventory coordination, and cost accounting compliance.
• Lead, coach, and develop an accounting team of 11 professionals across four locations; set clear standards and hold the team accountable for accuracy and timeliness.
• Invest in the development of team members who have strong foundational skills but may not yet have had exposure to best-in-class accounting practices at scale - this is a meaningful part of the role.
• Identify staffing needs; participate in hiring decisions and make recommendations to the CFO.
• Conduct performance reviews; provide ongoing coaching and feedback; manage career development planning for direct reports.

Who You Are

• Required: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or equivalent field. CPA license, active and in good standing. (Non-negotiable.) 7-10 years of progressive accounting experience, including at least 3 years managing an accounting team. Strong working knowledge of GAAP, internal controls, and multi-entity consolidation. Experience with ERP systems; comfort operating across multiple systems simultaneously is a plus. Proficient in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel; comfort with modern BI tools (Power BI or equivalent) is a plus. Willingness to travel periodically to Secant (Telford, PA), Charter Medical, Polyzen (Apex, NC), and Costa Rica as needed.
• Strongly Preferred: Experience in a PE-sponsored company. Understanding of PE reporting cadence, lender covenants, and board-level financial communication is a meaningful advantage. A track record of process improvement and standardization - someone who has come into an organization, assessed what needed to change, and built something more scalable and reliable. Acquisition integration experience, including chart-of-accounts alignment, system onboarding, and opening balance sheet work. Inventory accounting depth: standard costing, variance analysis, physical inventory management, and cycle count oversight in a manufacturing environment. Foreign entity accounting experience, including intercompany transactions, transfer pricing, and multi-currency consolidation. Experience with or curiosity about leveraging AI tools to improve accounting workflows and reporting efficiency.