Vice President & Corporate Controller

About the Role

This role provides leadership for enterprise accounting, close and consolidation, financial reporting, shared finance services, treasury operations, and financial data governance. The position is responsible for building a disciplined, service-oriented organization capable of supporting organic growth, acquisitions, and increasing organizational complexity. This includes developing standardized and scalable solutions for routine finance activities, improving quality, consistency, efficiency, and controls while creating capacity for business-unit finance teams to focus more fully on operating performance and strategic business partnership.

Responsibilities

• Enterprise Accounting, Close, and Financial Reporting:
  • Lead the enterprise close, consolidation, and financial processes, establishing clear reporting standards, review protocols, and accountability for financial information.
  • Ensure consolidated financial results are accurate, complete, timely, and supported by appropriate documentation.
  • Oversee corporate departmental accounting.
  • Identify and resolve significant accounting, reporting, and control issues.
  • Lead the incorporation of acquired businesses into enterprise accounting and reporting standards and processes.
• Accounting Authority and Technical Review:
  • Serve as the senior accounting authority below the Chief Financial Officer for enterprise accounting policies, technical accounting conclusions, and consolidated financial statements.
  • Review and approve material accounting conclusions, including supporting documentation, classification, and presentation.
  • Evaluate complex and nonrecurring transactions and determine the appropriate level of technical support and documentation.
  • Engage and manage external accounting specialists as needed.
• Financial Controls and Reporting Governance:
  • Establish and maintain close, journal-entry, reconciliation, and financial reporting review processes.
  • Define standards governing the documentation, review, approval, and retention of accounting records.
  • Drive timely remediation of financial close-related control deficiencies and recurring reporting issues.
• Finance Systems and Financial Data Governance:
  • Oversee finance business requirements for systems used to close, consolidate, and report actual financial results.
  • Establish governance for the chart of accounts, reporting hierarchy, financial master data, system access, and approval workflows.
  • Prioritize finance automation and process improvement initiatives.
• Shared Finance Services:
  • Develop and execute a long-term strategy for standardized or shared transaction processing.
  • Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, controls, service quality, and scalability through process standardization, technology enablement, and organizational design.
  • Establish appropriate service levels, performance measures, and continuous improvement programs.
• Treasury Operations:
  • Oversee treasury operations, including cash-position visibility, banking administration, treasury accounting, and debt accounting.
  • Ensure accurate financial information is available for covenant reporting and routine treasury activities.
  • Support the Chief Financial Officer on liquidity, financing, lender, and capital-structure matters.
• Leadership and Collaboration:
  • Build, lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team with clear accountability and decision-making authority.
  • Assess organizational capability, succession risk, and key-person dependencies while developing future leaders and critical talent.
  • Build effective partnerships across other corporate and business functions.
  • Foster a culture of integrity, accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and sound financial decision-making.

Qualifications

• Required:
  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field.
  • At least 12 years of progressive finance or accounting experience, including at least five years leading teams and significant controllership, accounting, consolidation, or financial reporting responsibilities.
  • Experience in a mature, control-based environment with rigorous documentation, review, evidence, financial reporting discipline, and accountability.
  • Experience supporting a multi-site or multi-business organization.
  • Experience implementing or transforming enterprise accounting processes, financial controls, reporting standards, financial systems, automation, or data governance across multiple entities.
  • Experience designing, leading, or scaling shared services, centralized transaction processing, or enterprise accounting functions.
  • Demonstrated expertise in U.S. GAAP, consolidated financial reporting, close management, accounting policy, and SOX-compliant internal controls.
  • Demonstrated ability to balance technical rigor with materiality, risk, pace, and business needs.
  • Experience using enterprise financial systems, consolidation tools, reporting platforms, and advanced spreadsheet modeling.
  • Strong leadership, communication, analytical, organizational, and change-management skills.
• Preferred:
  • CPA, MBA, or equivalent professional certification.
  • Experience in manufacturing, distribution, or a similarly complex operating environment.
  • Experience with acquisition accounting, financial integration, and the incorporation of acquired businesses into enterprise-level reporting.
  • Experience with private equity-backed environments and related financial reporting requirements.
  • Experience improving financial systems, processes, and reporting across multiple entities.

Key Competencies

• Technical accounting and financial reporting expertise
• Process transformation and systems thinking
• Integrity and sound judgment
• Accountability and execution
• Leadership and talent development
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Clear executive communication