Corporate Controller, Accounting

Job Purpose

The Corporate Controller is a key role in helping to drive the organization to achieve strategic and plan objectives. The Controller will be responsible for leading all aspects of the company’s finance activities, including general accounting, cost accounting, financial analysis, internal control, and audit. This position leads and manages all company compliance, consolidation and reporting to provide financial information to the company on an accurate and timely basis. This leadership position requires a detail-oriented professional with excellent analytical, planning, evaluation, and implementation skills. The Corporate Controller will also establish and implement policies and procedures to identify, resolve, and document accounting issues in addition to providing direction and strategic support to make the reporting processes more efficient and accurate.

This leader will drive a culture of continuous improvement in the finance function and support that culture at the manufacturing locations, providing assistance and direction as required to improve effectiveness and overall performance. The Controller will also lead, train, and develop a finance and accounting team to ensure current and future leadership of the financial function.

This individual must be extremely intelligent, personable, dynamic and innovative, with exceptional analytical skills, and one who deploys an energetic day-to-day “roll-up-your-sleeves” attitude.

**Responsibilities**:

- Directs and oversees the preparation of accurate and timely financial statements, department and activity reports and financial position presentations. Collaborates with CFO to analyze and recommend improvements to financial performance, financial reporting and accounting policy. Reports created in English for purposes of reporting to parent company in the United States.
- Enhances financial reporting systems and processes to produce accurate and timely financial statements, management reports and analysis, budgets and projections for internal business leaders, the Board and Shareholders.
- Partners with business leaders to ensure that reporting aligns to their needs and goals. Provides special reporting as well as formal and informal financial training and/or education to non-financial leaders as needed.
- Guides financial decisions by establishing, monitoring and enforcing policies and procedures.
- Asset Management: protects assets by establishing, monitoring and enforcing internal controls.
- Oversees internal and external audit functions, coordinates activities with outside audit firms.
- Oversees and manages relationship with chartered accountant and payroll consultant.
- VAT Settlement
- Managing Declaration of Intent
- Checking Account Management: maximizes return and limits risk, on cash by minimizing bank balances.
- Provides data and insights to department managers during the budgeting process. Coordinates data required for the process and ensures reporting is aligned to budget review processes throughout the year.
- Prepares budgets by establishing schedules; collecting, analyzing and consolidating financial data; recommending plans.
- Achieves budget objectives by scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions. Supervising management of quotations, orders and order confirmations.
- Supervising EU-Extra-EU shipments with related documentation (ddt, EU/Extra-EU invoices, dual use, packing list, certificate of origin, etc.).
- Provides status of financial condition by collecting, interpreting and reporting financial data.
- Prepares special reports by collecting, analyzing and summarizing information and trends.
- Complies with federal, state and local legal requirements by studying existing and new legislation; anticipating future legislation; enforcing adherence to requirements; filing financial reports; advising management on needed actions.
- Oversee the operations of the accounting department, including the design of an organizational structure adequate for achieving the department's goals and objectives.
- Recording and issuing electronic invoices to and from suppliers and customers.
- Ensure timely transactions in accounts payable and accounts receivable.
- Maintain a system of controls over accounting transactions, chart of accounts and accounting filing system.
- Maintains financial staff by, selecting, orienting and training employees.
- Maintains financial staff job results by coaching and counseling employees; planning, monitoring and appraising job results.
- Protects operations by keeping financial information and plans confidential.
- Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

Acquisition Integration Management
- Assist with accounting and financial aspects of acquisition due diligence, integration planning, execution and ongoing support.
- Develop an accounting and financial organizational, operating and service delivery model that facilitates rapid integra