The Corporate Controller is a senior finance leader responsible for the integrity of the company’s financial reporting, the strength of its internal control environment, and the ongoing modernization of accounting processes across a large, multi-entity manufacturing organization.
This role serves as a key partner to operations and executive leadership, driving accurate financial insight, disciplined cost and inventory management, and scalable systems and processes. A core focus of the position is ERP transformation and finance automation, ensuring the finance function is efficient, data-driven, and positioned to support growth.
As a faith-based organization rooted in biblical principles, we strive to reflect these values in our work, relationships, and decision-making. We expect all associates to learn, embrace, and actively model our core values through their actions, choices, and collaboration with others. This commitment is essential to sustaining our culture and achieving shared success.
This job description does not describe all activities, duties, responsibilities, or physical demands required of the employee for this job. Likewise, the work environment described is merely representative. Duties, responsibilities, activities, physical demands, and work environment may change at any time with or without notice.
Key Responsibilities
Financial Reporting & Internal Controls
- 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.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance; CPA strongly preferred (MBA a plus).
- 10+ years of progressive accounting experience, with significant manufacturing industry exposure.
- Demonstrated experience leading multi-entity accounting teams.
- Deep expertise in inventory accounting, cost accounting, and manufacturing variance analysis.
- Strong knowledge of GAAP and internal control frameworks.
- Direct experience with ERP systems in a manufacturing environment (Epicor, SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, SageIntacct, or similar), including system implementations or major transformations.
- Proven track record of driving finance process improvement and automation.
Key Competencies
- Strong technical accounting and analytical skills.
- Operationally minded finance leader with a continuous improvement mindset.
- Ability to translate complex financial data into clear operational insights.
- Change leader comfortable driving system, process, and organizational transformation.
- High integrity, strong ownership mentality, and collaborative leadership style.
Why This Role Matters
This role is critical to strengthening the company’s financial foundation while modernizing the finance function. The Corporate Controller will play a central role in improving operational performance, strengthening financial controls, modernizing finance capabilities, and enabling scalable growth.
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