Controller / Accounting Manager

Job Title: Controller / Accounting Manager

Reports to: CEO

FLSA Status: Exempt (Salaried), ineligible for Overtime Pay

Full-time, Year-Round Position

Job Summary:

The Controller/Accounting Manager oversees all accounting and financial reporting functions for the plant, ensuring adequate controls to protect company assets and operational effectiveness. This role ensures relevant, timely, and accurate reporting of operations and effective support of operations and financial management. Manages the accounting team which has the responsibility for the planning, reporting and financial decision support of the facility/plant. This is an office-based position that does not allow for regular or frequent telecommuting.

Leadership Responsibilities:

• Provides day-to-day supervision of Accounting Staff to include Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger, Cost Accounting, and Payroll functions.
• Carries out management responsibilities in accordance with the Company’s policies and applicable laws.
• Maintains and builds management depth for existing business and growth.
• Promotes an environment and culture of engagement where all employees feel respected, valued, and informed.

Essential Functions:

• Reinforces and promotes a culture of safe work practices and ensures the work environment is safe within areas of responsibility, and across the company.
• Maintains an effective system of internal controls, ensuring compliance with Corporate and generally accepted standards of accounting and reporting.
• Directs the processes of recording, reviewing, and reporting performance of the plant, with a focus on continuous improvement in terms of accuracy, timeliness, relevance, and cost. Effectively utilizes information processing technology and staff to deliver information to management in an efficient and effective manner.
• Partners with plant management with managing capital expenditures to optimize economic performance, product quality, and associate safety. Effectively manages the plant’s Capital Expenditure Request (CER) process. Oversees inventory and overall asset management.
• Manages the accounting staff and ensures effective utilization of human resources. Ensures effective training, development, coaching, of the accounting team members.
• Oversees the payroll and timekeeping function for the organization.
• Serves as the coordinator/director of the operations' cost/financial issues on behalf of the plant management team. Participates and reports financial performance and other ad-hoc business case analysis to the PTM. Manages the plant production costing process; prepares and reviews all new product costing requests (internal and external customers) with the plant management team. Performs special projects as directed by the CEO and Director of Operations.
• Reviews monthly closing responsibilities and related cost/analytical and auditing responsibilities.
• Supports activities related to annual capital/operating budgets, labor standards, payroll, key initiative reporting, operations performance forecast, scorecard comments, capital project review and approval and Agri Stats analysis and review.
• Serves as the primary IT Liaison with our external IT service provider/partner.

Required Skills and Abilities:

• Must be fluent in English
• Must have excellent computer skills in Excel, Access and Word.
• Strong interpersonal communications skills
• Critical thinking and analytical reasoning skills
• Relationship building skills & a collaborative mindset
• Good time management skills and excellent attention to detail
• Proven problem-solving & decision-making skills
• Must be willing to attend early morning or evening meetings as needed

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, or related discipline is required. A Masters Degree in Business Administration (MBA) is preferred.
• Either a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Management Accountant (CMA), or an MBA is required.
• A minimum of 5 years of formal leadership within Accounting of Business Operations is required.
• 8+ years accounting experience is required
• Manufacturing experience strongly preferred
• Experience with enterprise planning software, including inventory management software is required.

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands represented here are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, talk, or hear; frequently required to use repetitive hand motion, handle or feel objects, reach with hands and arms, and to stand, walk, bend or lift up to 20 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust and focus. Manual dexterity for the regular use of hands for typing, coding general ledger information, handling files and operating various office machines is required. May spend long hours in sitting at a computer, viewing a computer monitor.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $85,000.00 per year