Forvis Mazars US Executive Search Practice ยท 21 hours ago
Financial Controller
Forvis Mazars is engaged in filling a Corporate Controller position with a dynamic organization in New York City. The role involves overseeing daily operational accounting responsibilities, managing a finance team, and ensuring compliance with accounting practices while supporting strategic financial initiatives.
Responsibilities
Oversee daily operational accounting responsibilities, including budgeting/forecasting, monthly consolidations, month-end close and providing accurate and timely financial statements and related analysis
Supervise and develop a small finance and accounting team, including corporate accounting and A/P and A/R functions, providing hands-on leadership and developing staff, providing ongoing audit and analysis of accounting and finance operations, identifying inefficiencies and implementing improvements
Ensure compliance and maintain standard operational accounting practices, cash management strategies and ongoing budgeting and forecasting activities
Execute daily cash management function, monitoring cash flow and managing the line of credit
Monitor inventory levels and turnover, working with the CFO to implement an accurate cost out model and set up a standard costing system that increases forecast accuracy and reduces estimating and pricing errors; provide reporting around pricing strategy and job costing as well as budget forecasting and comparison to actuals
Oversee accurate and increasing job and customer profitability, analyzing budgeted hourly rates for estimating and job costing and overseeing sales commission calculations
Support any post-merger integration of acquisitions from an accounting and reporting perspective
Act as key member of ERP implementation team during upgrade and optimization projects, providing data integrity analysis and supporting the setup of accurate and repeatable internal reporting processes
Manage annual financial statement audit and periodic bank and tax audits; ad hoc projects may include setting up new divisions or business line structures, updating/integrating new software packages or billing/tracking protocols
Qualification
Required
active CPA license required
Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
5+ years of manufacturing industry experience with exposure to job cost accounting
Strong communication skills and the ability to interact with operations, sales and other departments
Intermediate to advanced software / ERP and financial reporting skills
Preferred
Master's degree, CPA or CMA highly preferred
Company
Forvis Mazars US Executive Search Practice
Forvis Mazars, LLP is an independent member of Forvis Mazars Global, a leading global professional services network.
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageCompany data provided by crunchbase