Controller, Finance & Banking, Financial Manager

Overview

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• Title: Controller
• Schedule: 8:30 am - 5:00 pm, M-F, with some flexibility.
• Location: Gibbstown, NJ (08027)
• Salary Range: $130,000-$175,000 (+) based on experience and qualifications.
• Direct Reports: 2-7

The Controller is responsible for all aspects of Accounting and Financial Reporting for Consolidated Entity and its affiliates. The ideal candidate will be an experienced and forward-thinking professional with operational experience and a proven track record of creative problem solving and change management. The Controller has a strong background in cost accounting within the chemical manufacturing industry, with a proven track record of building processes and systems from scratch to drive profitability through cost analysis and optimization.

• Lead month-end and year-end closing processes, ensuring accuracy and timeliness. Lead monthly performance financial analysis including variance analysis, trend analysis, and profitability assessments to provide financial business insights and potential areas of improvement to assist in decision-making processes.
• Lead the preparation of consolidated financial statements for the global organization, ensuring accuracy and adherence to accounting principles and reporting standards.
• Lead Accounts Receivable, Payable and Treasury teams and functions.
• Lead Tax and regulatory compliance reporting and function.
• Inventory Management:
  Partner with the supply chain to optimize inventory turnover and minimize carrying costs, minimize excess and obsolete inventory. Ensure completeness, accuracy, and valuation assertions to include monthly reconciliation of inventory balances, monitoring of inventory levels, identification of overage and aging material issues and developing corrective action plan, coordinating periodic physical inventories, managing inventory cost-related reserves.
• Partner with Operations and Supply chain and lead standard cost maintenance and variance analysis:
  Establish and maintain bills of material, product routings, material, labor and overhead costs. Ensure that financial assumptions related to labor, material, and overhead are reasonably accurate and that desired margins are being pursued. Analyze and forecast production costs. Plan, collect, and analyze data to drive the standard cost revaluation processes; implement cost updates periodically. Manage the annual cost roll-up for all sites.
  
  Execute variance analysis and monitor adherence to the budget.
• Implement cost accounting policies and procedures according to GAAP. Lead the development & ongoing management of costing methods. Develop, maintain, and promote strong internal controls in conjunction with accounting policies and GAAP. Identify weaknesses and develop processes/tools to close gaps.
• Partner with Operations and Supply chain and develop cost estimates for new products/new business initiatives, ultimately leading to a decision for the given initiative. Run pricing models in various scenarios. Partner with other key leaders in pricing decisions. Prepare and analyze customer and item profitability.
• Partner with Operations and Supply chain and lead the manufacturing conversion and cost standardization and create a global standardization system.