Position Summary: The Controller maximizes return on financial assets by establishing financial policies, procedures, controls, and reporting systems.This position reports to the Vice President of Finance.
Key Responsibilities:
- Guides financial decisions by establishing, monitoring, and enforcing policies and procedures
- Protects assets by establishing, monitoring, and enforcing internal controls
- Monitors and confirms financial condition by conducting internal audits and providing information to external auditors
- Maximizes return, and limits risk, on cash by monitoring bank balance
- Prepares budgets by establishing schedules, collecting, analyzing, and consolidating financial data
- Achieves budget objectives by scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions
- Provides status of financial condition by collecting, interpreting, and reporting financial data
- Prepares ad-hoc reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends
- Complies with federal, state, and local legal requirements by enforcing adherence to requirements; filing financial reports and advising management on needed actions
- Completes operational requirements by scheduling and assigning employees and following up on work results
- Recruits and trains financial/accounting employees that enable the successful completion of department objectives
- Maintains financial staff job results by coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees when necessary
- Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.
- Protects operations by keeping financial information and plans confidential
- Monitor, review, and approve employee time corrections within 24 hours of correction (assign duties to Supervisor or Team Leader if absent)
- Other duties as assigned
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in accounting or equivalent accounting experience (5+ years) required
- Previous experience managing an accounting team
- Expert understanding of the GL and accounting processes
- Knowledge of internal controls; experience with SOX company a plus
- Applicable knowledge of GAAP
- Must be detail oriented and extremely well organized
- Ability to prioritize and delegate work to team members
- Ability to multi-task with competing priorities
- Ability to work productively in a fast-paced, changing environment
- Experience providing excellent customer service to internal and external customers
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrated experience with MS Office products, MS Excel power user
- Experience with an ERP system
Preferred Qualifications - CPA preferred
- Experience with government contracts preferred
- 10 years of related experience is preferred
Working Conditions - Monday- Friday 8 AM- 5 PM
