The Corporate Controller will establish and lead a unified accounting function across three manufacturing businesses. This is a hands-on build-and-lead role for a proven accounting professional who can bring structure, accuracy, discipline, and timely financial insight to a growing multi-company environment. The Controller will own the close and reporting process, oversee all tax compliance, build reliable manufacturing cost accounting, strengthen cash and internal controls, and direct all accounting personnel and activities across the organization.
Enterprise Accounting Leadership
- Create and enforce a consistent accounting framework, chart of accounts, policies, close calendar, and reporting standards across all three companies.
- Lead monthly, quarterly, and year-end close activities, including consolidations, intercompany reconciliations and eliminations, accruals, fixed assets, and balance-sheet reconciliations.
- Produce timely, accurate GAAP-based financial statements and management reports by company, plant, product line, and consolidated operation.
- Provide executive leadership with clear analysis of financial performance, risks, trends, and corrective actions.
- Serve as the functional leader for all accounting work and personnel across the three businesses, regardless of physical location or employing entity.
Cost Accounting and Manufacturing Finance
- Work closely with operations and engineering to build and maintain dependable product and job costing, including material, labor, burden, overhead allocation, work in process, and standard-to-actual variance analysis.
- Partner with operations and engineering to improve the financial accuracy of bills of material, routings, labor reporting, scrap, inventory transactions, and work orders.
- Analyze margins and profitability by company, facility, product family, job, and customer; identify cost leakage and improvement opportunities.
- Oversee inventory accounting, cycle counts, annual physical inventories, slow-moving and obsolete reserves, and reconciliation of the general ledger to operational systems.
- Develop practical operating reports that connect production performance, purchasing, inventory, and labor activity to financial results.
Tax, Compliance, and External Reporting
- Own the organization-wide tax compliance calendar and ensure timely, accurate filing and payment of all applicable federal, state, and local obligations.
- Oversee income, sales and use, property, payroll, franchise, excise, and other business taxes, coordinating with external CPAs and specialists when appropriate.
- Manage year-end information requests, audit and review support, 1099 reporting, business licenses, registrations, and responses to taxing authorities.
- Maintain complete supporting documentation and ensure that tax positions, filings, and payments are reconciled to the accounting records.
Transactional Accounting, Cash, and Internal Controls
- Direct accounts payable, accounts receivable, billing, collections, cash application, bank reconciliations, payment processing, and payroll accounting across all three companies.
- Establish disciplined approval levels, segregation of duties, documentation standards, and controls appropriate for a growing multi-location manufacturer.
- Monitor daily cash position, prepare short- and medium-term cash forecasts, and support banking relationships, credit facilities, and lender reporting.
- Improve working capital through stronger receivable collection, vendor-term management, inventory control, and purchasing visibility.
ERP, Global Shop, and Process Improvement
- Serve as the finance owner for Global Shop Solutions implementation and ongoing use across the companies, including the general ledger, AP, AR, inventory, purchasing, work orders, job costing, and financial reporting.
- Define transaction standards and controls that produce reliable financial and cost data from the ERP system.
- Develop useful dashboards and reporting tools while reducing spreadsheets, duplicate entry, and disconnected processes.
- Train accounting and operational users and hold functions accountable for accurate, timely system transactions.
Planning and Business Support
- Lead annual budgeting, periodic forecasting, capital expenditure analysis, and financial modeling for major operating decisions.
- Support pricing, make-versus-buy, sourcing, product-line, expansion, and other strategic decisions with fact-based analysis.
- Help integrate accounting policies, reporting, controls, and systems as the companies continue to grow and consolidate shared services.
Required
- Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or a closely related field.
- At least seven years of progressive accounting experience, including meaningful responsibility for the general ledger, close, financial statements, tax compliance, cash management, and internal controls.
- Demonstrated ability to personally perform detailed accounting work while also establishing processes and leading others.
- Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP and the ability to convert operational activity into accurate, decision-useful financial information.
- Experience overseeing tax compliance across multiple jurisdictions, whether performed internally or through outside advisors.
- Advanced spreadsheet and financial-systems skills, with a track record of improving accounting workflows and data quality.
- High integrity, sound judgment, discretion, and the confidence to communicate directly with ownership and operating leaders.
Strongly Preferred
- Controller-level experience in agricultural equipment, heavy equipment, fabricated products, or another discrete manufacturing environment.
- Strong manufacturing cost accounting experience, including standard costing, work in process, labor and overhead absorption, variance analysis, and inventory controls.
- Experience supporting multiple companies, plants, or operating locations under a shared accounting structure.
- Hands-on experience with Global Shop Solutions; this would be a significant advantage.
- Builder: Can create order and accountability where systems and staffing are still developing.
- Hands-on leader: Will reconcile an account, investigate a variance, or solve a transaction problem personally when the situation requires it.
- Operational partner: Understands that strong manufacturing accounting begins with accurate activity on the shop floor.
- Clear communicator: Can explain financial results and risks in plain language and respectfully challenge unsupported assumptions.
- Consistent standard-setter: Applies common expectations across separate companies and locations without losing sight of practical operating realities.
Pay: From $100,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) 4% Match
- Dental insurance
- Disability insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
