This position allows 2-3 days/week remote / work from home after training.
Salary: $115,000 - 135,000/year
The Controller is responsible for statutory GAAP and SEC (SOX) compliant accounting as well as all aspects of management reporting for the Performance Chemicals operating segment located in the United States and Canada. In addition, the position will be the lead finance member for M&A or business start-up activities.
Consolidation of results (income statement, balance sheet and cash flows)
Ensure maintenance and compliance with of Sarbanes Oxley-based of internal controls
Integrity of financial information
Develop and maintain timely, useful financial reports to support management decision making, such as sales, margin, and expense analysis and reporting.
Lead in month end closing procedures; drafting journal entries, reviewing account activity, identifying necessary accruals and allocations, and highlighting and understanding unbudgeted anomalies.
Review or prepare month end account reconciliations, proactively rectifying unreconciled transactions
Evaluate procurement, labor, and production costs across three operational facilities
Analyze logistics costs
Analyze return on investment for capital and other project proposals
Provide audit deliverables and communicates with the internal and external audit teams to determine implementation of best practices
Identify improvements, make recommendations, and promote ideas
Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks, participating in professional societies
Must be helpful, respectful, approachable and team-oriented, building strong working relationships and a team environment
Must demonstrate efficiency by planning ahead, managing time well, having consistent attendance, being on time, being cost conscious and thinking of better ways to do things.
Must communicate effectively by listening, writing and speaking clearly and accurately and keeping the team and management informed.
Must promote cross-training within the department and be willing to help coworkers during absences and high-volume events.
Lead or participate in financial due diligence (M&A and expansion or capital projects)
Expected to be the financial leader of a global team seeking to achieve business growth and profit improvement objectives.