Corporate Controller

**Summary:

**The Corporate Controller will lead the accounting function for a rapidly growing organization undergoing meaningful modernization and operational transformation. This role is ideal for a finance leader who excels in building infrastructure, strengthening processes, and elevating financial rigor within a scaling environment.

The Corporate Controller will oversee all accounting operations, develop a high-performing team, partner closely with senior leadership, and ensure that financial systems, reporting, and controls meet the highest standards. Must be deadline-oriented, highly analytical with strong problem-solving skills.

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**Essential Duties and Responsibilities

**include the following; however, other duties may be assigned.

• **Leadership & Strategy

  **- Lead, mentor, and develop a growing accounting team; instill accountability, structure, and continuous improvement.

  • Partner with senior executives to provide financial clarity, support decision-making, and strengthen organizational maturity.

  • Serve as a strategic advisor in optimizing the finance function as the company expands.

• **Accounting Operations

  **- Oversee the accounting closing processes, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance.

  • Manage general ledger activities, consolidations, account reconciliations, and financial reporting.

  • Maintain and enhance internal controls, policies, and financial governance to support scalability.

• **Process Improvement & Systems

  **- Lead initiatives to modernize accounting processes and increase efficiency across the function.

  • Improve data visibility and reporting quality to better support operational and strategic needs.

  • Assess, recommend, and implement system enhancements that strengthen financial infrastructure.

• **Cross-Functional Collaboration

  **- Partner closely with Operations, Commercial, and other business units to ensure alignment and data integrity.

  • Support transformation efforts across the Company and within the finance organization.

  • Provide financial insights that help guide organizational growth, cost management, and operational effectiveness.

**Essential Qualifications and Skills:

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To successfully perform this job, an individual must be able to perform each key responsibility in a satisfactory manner through individual effort or effective and appropriate collaboration. Additionally, the well-qualified candidate will have the following education and experience:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance; CPA is strongly preferred.

• 10+ years of progressive accounting experience, including leadership of an accounting team.

• Deep knowledge of GAAP, internal controls, financial reporting, and month-end close.

• Proven experience building or maturing an accounting function within a growing or evolving company.

• Strong systems orientation with experience improving accounting tools, reporting, and infrastructure.

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence and partner at all levels of the organization.

• Experience in multi-entity environments.

• Previous involvement in finance transformation, systems upgrades, or process redesign.

• Comfort working in environments with operational complexity and opportunities for improvement.

**Work Environment:

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Work is typically performed in an inside, temperature-controlled environment. Works and travels throughout plant environment of varied temperatures and humidity, and wears personal protective equipment, as required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Various operations in the plant generate noise, dust, vapor and fumes in the normal course of production. The Company has been and is committed to eliminating these conditions to the extent possible through the application of design engineering. The Company also provides a variety of safety equipment to keep all associates safe and within OSHA standards. The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

You should be proficient in:

• Bachelor's Degree
• Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)

Machines & technologies you'll use:

• Accounting Software