Job Description

Controller

The Controller is responsible for ensuring the integrity of the company's financials, leading all accounting, reporting, and control processes. This role serves as the financial backbone of the organization, delivering accurate, timely, and compliant financial information while building scalable processes to support growth.

The Controller partners closely with FP&A (planning) and Supply Chain Finance (cost visibility) to ensure a single source of truth for financial performance.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Reporting & Close

• Full ownership of monthly, quarterly, and annual close process
• Ensures accurate and timely financial statements in accordance with GAAP
• Maintains strong balance sheet integrity and reconciliation processes
• Delivers clean, audit-ready financials with no surprises

Accounting Operations

• Oversees the accounting team managing GL, AP, AR, and fixed assets
• Ensures accurate and timely transaction processing
• Maintains and enforces accounting policies and procedures
• Drives process standardization and automation

Internal Controls & Compliance

• Designs and maintains a robust internal control environment
• Ensures compliance with audit requirements, tax, and regulatory obligations, including compliance for international entities
• Leads external audits and manages relationships with auditors
• Coordinates tax filings with external firm

Cash Management & Working Capital

• Partners with FP&A on cash forecasting
• Optimizes working capital (AR collections/AP timing/inventory accounting discipline)

Systems & Scalability

• Owns financial systems (ERP) and ensures data integrity
• Leads implementation or optimization of accounting and reporting tools
• Builds scalable processes to support growth and complexity

Team Leadership

• Coach, mentor, and develop accounting staff
• Drive accountability and continuous improvement

Success Profile

Core Competencies

• Uncompromising attention to detail and accuracy
• Strong process discipline and controls mindset
• Ability to operate at both hands-on and strategic levels
• Solutions-oriented with a focus on scalability and efficiency

Experience & Background

• 10+ years in accounting/finance (Director level); 8+ (Controller in smaller orgs)
• CPA strongly preferred
• Experience in CPG, manufacturing, or inventory-heavy environments strongly preferred
• Track record of building or upgrading accounting infrastructure and teams
• Ability to prioritize work and meet deadlines, as well as adjust to changing priorities.

Critical Interfaces

• FP&A
• Provides actuals and historical data
• Aligns on definitions (Net Sales, Gross Margin, etc.)
• Supports variance analysis
• Supply Chain Finance
• Ensures accurate inventory valuation and COGS accounting
• Aligns standard costs vs. actuals

Controller owns "what happened" (actuals). FP&A owns "what will happen."

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