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Fagron · 17 hours ago

North America Controller

Austin, TX

Full-time

Onsite

Director/Executive

12+ years exp

Fagron is the global market leader in pharmaceutical medicine, striving to improve medications and help patients. The North America Controller is responsible for overseeing regional accounting, ensuring financial reporting accuracy, and maintaining compliance with accounting policies across multiple manufacturing operations.

BiotechnologyHealth CareMedicalPharmaceutical

Responsibilities

Serve as the senior accounting authority for all North America manufacturing entities and distribution operations

Lead and align three Business Controllers supporting individual plants, product lines, or business units

Establish regional accounting standards, governance, and escalation processes

Act as the primary accounting partner to North America finance and operations leadership

Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes for the North America region

Ensure timely and accurate regional financial statements in compliance with IFRS

Review and approve key estimates and judgments, including reserves, accruals, and inventory valuation

Be the point of contact for most of the communication with the Global Finance team

Partner with FP&A to ensure accurate manufacturing cost data, margin reporting, and variance analysis

Provide leadership and oversight for: Standard cost setting and maintenance, Bill of materials (BOM) accuracy and routing integrity, Inventory valuation, obsolescence, and excess & slow-moving (E&O) reserves, Cost absorption, overhead allocation, and labor efficiency, Physical inventory counts and cycle count programs

Ensure accurate product costing and gross margin reporting across plants

Partner with operations and supply chain to explain and improve manufacturing variances

Maintain a strong internal control environment across North America manufacturing operations, including SOX compliance where applicable

Serve as the primary regional contact for external and internal auditors

Ensure proper controls over inventory, fixed assets, and capital projects

Lead remediation of audit findings and control gaps

Provide guidance on complex accounting matters, including: Revenue recognition for manufactured goods, Inventory capitalization and variances, Fixed assets, capitalization, depreciation, and impairments, Leases and intercompany manufacturing arrangements

Review and approve technical accounting analyses and documentation

Partner with corporate accounting on new accounting standards and policy updates

Support manufacturing and supply chain leadership on cost, margin, and capacity decisions

Provide accounting leadership for capital investment decisions and post-implementation reviews

Support M&A activity and integration of acquired manufacturing operations

Balance strong controls with operational practicality in a plant environment

Lead, coach, and develop three Business Controllers and their extended teams

Build accounting talent with strong manufacturing and operational acumen

Drive consistency and best practices across plant accounting organizations

Support succession planning and leadership development

Qualification

CPAManufacturing accountingIFRS complianceERP implementationM&A experienceUS GAAP knowledgeFinancial reportingCost accountingLeadership

Required

Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance; CPA required

12–15+ years of progressive accounting experience, including manufacturing environments

Prior experience as a Regional Controller, Division Controller, or Plant Controller leader

Strong knowledge of accounting rules (US GAAP at a minimum, IFRS ideally) with deep expertise in manufacturing and cost accounting

Experience overseeing multiple plants or business units

ERP implementation experience in manufacturing environments (SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Dynamics, or similar)

Preferred

M&A and integration experience

Benefits

Free garage parking in our building that is safe and secure

Fresh Starbucks coffee delivered daily

Delicious catered lunches daily

Refrigerators stocked with all sorts of tasty cold drinks

Company

Fagron

Fagron is committed to the personalization of health treatment to cover the individual patient’s need through Pharmaceutical Compounding & Sterile Outsourcing Services.

Founded in 1990

Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, NLD

1001-5000 employees