VP Controller

VP Controller

Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, the Corporate Controller will be a senior leader on the finance team, working closely with business leadership and finance teams to lead the consolidated accounting function, ensuring sound business controls, and financial reporting processes. The work of a Corporate Controller is strategic, influential, and ever evolving.

Leader in food safety solutions for both contract sanitation and chemistry in the food processing industry.

Over 10,000 dedicated team members across North America.

Corporate headquarters in Atlanta, GA with team members working in over 250 plants throughout North America.

Over 50+ years of experience in creating long-lasting partnerships.

We protect the food supply by eliminating risks so families everywhere can eat without fear.

Protect What Matters:
We are in service of safety at every step, ensuring the health of everyone is central to all we do – from plant team members to consumers.

Deliver On Our Promises:
We speak honestly and are dedicated to doing the right thing by upholding ethical standards and following through on our commitments to our teams, our customers, and our business.

Win as a Team:
We believe in the power of collaboration, uniting our diverse strengths while working hand-in-hand with our team members and customers to unlock potential and achieve stronger results together.

Advance a Safer Future:
We are committed to innovating more effective, sustainable, and cost-efficient food safety solutions to develop a safer world for all.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

In addition to setting the strategic direction for the Controllership function and leading a team of ~20 accountants, the successful candidate will also be responsible for the following:

• Maintain strong controls and accounting policies while adapting to changing circumstances; develop, implement, and document procedures to maximize the cash conversion cycle.
• Lead the Treasury, daily cash management, and banking activity for the company and related compliance with the support of Senior Management, continue the culture of continuous improvement by maintaining a list of short, medium, and long-term improvement goals and utilize those goals to further develop and improve accounting department processes to improve efficiency, reduce cycle time/errors, and overall improve timeliness of accounting functions.
• Lead the accounting department to completion of the annual audit process, tax returns, and other regulatory compliances reports including the timely filing of K-1s, sales/use tax returns, property tax renditions, and the filing of related property and other taxes with support from outside CPAs.
• Ensure the department maintains accurate and timely delivery of financial statements and related analysis, including identifying, escalating, resolving, and documenting any accounting issues.
• Manage the department to ensure all financial impact transactions are performed timely and accurately, including monthly reconciliation of balance sheet accounts (assessed for recoverability and completeness).
• Be the subject matter expert and the accounting/finance leader on the cross-functional M&A integration team.
• Develop and ensure effective internal controls are operative to verify the reliability of the financial reporting system.
• Manage the full implementation and management of Microsoft AX365 accounting ERP and provide leadership to the emerging data insights teams.
• Responsible for the weekly, monthly, and annual closing processes, including managing the external audit and tax (direct and indirect) return processes.
• Work closely with the CFO and Corporate FP&A team to provide financial results analysis (including reports for inclusion in the Board packs to shareholders).
• Other duties as assigned.

YOUR MUST HAVES:

• Must be 18 years of age or older.
• Growth mindset, demonstrating strong interpersonal, communication, organizational and prioritization skills. Highly ethical, confidential, credible, with clean financial and background history.
• Conscientious about timeliness of assignments and quality of work product.
• Accountable for specific performance of self as well as the accounting team.
• Detail oriented with a strong comprehension of account relationships and reconciliations per GAAP.
• Experience and proficiency with AX 365 (or SAP/Oracle) and an ability to follow the impact of a transaction as it flows through the financials and be able to articulate and understand the full upstream and downstream effects of any accounting decision.
• Experience working through an ERP transition, build-out, or implementation.
• Strong knowledge of and experience with US GAAP and financial reporting in a service, manufacturing, or technology environment.
• Bachelor's and/or master's degree in business, Accounting, Economics, or related fields.
• C.P.A. required with Big 4 public accounting experience highly desired.
• 10 or more years of experience in the accounting and finance sector.
• 3 or more years of experience managing accountants and the…