Job Title: Controller

FLSA Status Exempt

Salary: $175,000

Reports to: Chief Financial Officer

Location: Onsite.

KULR Technology Location: Webster, Texas

Travel: No Travel

Position Overview

The Controller is a high impact role that works closely with the CFO to lead the accounting function. The Controller will be hands-on in executing and directing analysis and reporting of financial information including cost accounting, budgets, planning, required filings and reports. Working with senior leadership, this role helps shape the direction and strategic initiatives through thoughtful, detailed financial analysis and planning.

Functions:

• Lead the Accounting Function: Own the general ledger, month-end and quarter-end close, financial statements, accounting policies, close calendar, reconciliations, and coordination of external accounting, tax, and audit activities.
• Lead Manufacturing & Cost Accounting: Own inventory valuation, WIP, COGS, BOMs, product costing, standard and actual costing, overhead allocation, purchase-price and manufacturing variances, inventory reconciliations, cycle counts, and physical inventory.
• Own NetSuite & Accounting Infrastructure: Ensure NetSuite and the chart of accounts accurately support BOMs, item masters, inventory transactions, manufacturing activity, product costing, and financial reporting. Lead improvements to workflows, controls, integrations, and reporting.
• Drive Costing & Manufacturing Data Accuracy: Partner closely with Operations and Engineering to maintain accurate BOMs, item masters, routings, and costed BOMs, ensuring material, labor, overhead, and manufacturing changes are properly reflected in accounting.
• Manage Financial Controls & Compliance: Develop and enforce internal controls, accounting policies, segregation of duties, journal-entry approvals, master-data controls, and safeguards over revenue, costs, inventory, and expenditures. Ensure compliance with US GAAP and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Lead Financial Reporting & SEC Compliance: Oversee timely and accurate quarterly and annual financial reporting, including SEC filings, financial statements, management reporting, forecasts, and analysis. Serve as a primary liaison with external auditors and accounting advisers.
• Support Treasury, Budgeting & Financial Strategy: Manage cash positioning, banking relationships, debt and covenant monitoring, and liquidity forecasting. Lead budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, scenario planning, and financial modeling in partnership with the CFO and senior leadership.
• Build & Lead the Accounting Team: Develop and manage the accounting team, establish scalable processes and institutional knowledge, and take a hands-on, roll-up-your-sleeves approach to building and improving accounting and manufacturing-costing capabilities.
• Other job-related duties as assigned

Requirements

Education & Experience:

• CPA required.
• 7+ years of progressive accounting experience, including 1-2+ years in a Controller or senior accounting leadership role.
• Proven experience with a publicly traded company and SEC reporting.
• Significant manufacturing and cost accounting experience, including BOMs, inventory valuation, WIP, COGS, overhead allocation, standard costing, and manufacturing variances.
• Hands-on NetSuite experience in a manufacturing environment, including inventory, BOMs, item setup, and product costing.
• Strong knowledge of GAAP, financial reporting, month-end/quarter-end close, and internal controls.
• Experience managing or supporting external audits and SEC reporting requirements.
• Ability to analyze and improve ERP/accounting processes and controls, not simply generate reports.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to connect manufacturing operations, inventory, and costs to financial results.
• Proven experience leading, managing, and developing accounting teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or related field, or equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience improving manufacturing accounting processes, ERP controls, inventory costing, BOMs, or item masters.
• Experience in technology, aerospace, defense, electronics, energy, or other complex manufacturing environments.
• MBA, CMA, or additional relevant professional certification.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs):

• Strong understanding of financial and cost accounting principles and practices
• Strong financial data analysis skills
• Working knowledge of national and local tax regulations and compliance reporting
• Experience in streamlining accounting processes
• Exemplary history of financial project management
• Outstanding skills in accurate reporting and analysis, detail-oriented auditing
• Demonstrated ability to maintain confidentiality and conduct work with highest standards of ethics

• Demonstrated ability to influence others, build effective relationships with both internal and external stakeholders to accomplish business objectives
• Demonstrated ability to assume personal accountability, address limitations, exhibits honesty and respect towards others, the company and oneself
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, assessing business needs, and using problem solving skills to address challenges
• Demonstrated ability to serve and actively contribute as an active team member on the immediate team and the larger organization. Ability to support the team effort without necessarily taking the lead
• Able to generate new insights into situations and encourage innovation to generate successful outcomes. Creates, designs, and implements programs or processes
• Ability to achieve measurable goals and results to support of organizational success
• Ability to understand and analyze underlying organizational issues
• Outstanding interpersonal skills to build effective relationships to achieve business results
• Strong demonstrated written and verbal communication skills to work effectively with a wide range of individuals in a diverse community
• Cooperative spirit within a large and/or small team of diverse cultures, while working in a fast-paced environment with multiple deadlines and frequently changing priorities

• Intermediate use of computers and Microsoft Office Suite Applications such as Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook and accounting software packages (NetSuite preferred)

Special Conditions:

• Criminal and credit background check required

Physical Demands/Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here represent those an employee may encounter while performing this job's essential functions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

OFFICE WORK ENVIRONMENT

Sedentary work. Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Close visual acuity to perform an activity such as preparing and analyzing data and figures and viewing a computer terminal. The work is performed in an office environment. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. Sufficient clarity of speech and hearing or other communication capabilities, which permits the employee to communicate effectively on the telephone and in person. Sufficient manual dexterity with or without reasonable accommodation, which permits the employee to frequently operate a personal computer (estimated 80%-100% of the typical workday) and other office equipment. Sufficient personal mobility and physical reflexes, with or without reasonable accommodation, which permits the employee to work in an office setting and at a computer workstation for an extended period, with the ability to move around the office considered to be approximately 100% of the workday.