Vice President - Finance​/Controller

Confidential Search | Leading High-Growth Manufacturer

Location:

Auburn, Massachusetts, south of Worcester On-site Senior Finance Leadership Role

The Avery Point Group has been retained to conduct a confidential search for a Vice President, Finance / Controller for a leading, high-growth manufacturer in its industry. This is a hands-on senior finance leadership role for an experienced manufacturing finance professional who can strengthen the company’s accounting foundation, improve financial discipline, and partner closely with operations, supply chain, purchasing, sales, and executive leadership.

The successful candidate will serve as the company’s senior accounting and finance leader, reporting to the CEO / President. This person must be comfortable operating both as a senior leader and as a hands-on contributor, moving easily between executive-level financial leadership and detailed execution around costing, inventory, controls, close, reporting, ERP, and operational finance.

This is an excellent opportunity for a manufacturing finance leader who understands the details behind product cost, margin, inventory valuation, labor, overhead, working capital, and operating performance, and who can help build the systems, processes, reporting, and controls needed to support continued growth.

The Vice President, Finance / Controller will lead the company’s accounting and financial operations, with primary responsibility for accurate, timely, and disciplined financial processes across a manufacturing and distribution environment.

A major priority of the role will be ensuring that costs, inventory values, margins, and financial results are accurate and supported by reliable systems, data, controls, and processes. The right candidate will bring strong experience in manufacturing cost accounting, a deep understanding of inventory and standard costing, and the ability to partner effectively with non-financial leaders across the business.

• Lead all accounting operations, including general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, inventory, fixed assets, and financial reporting.
• Direct monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes, including reconciliations, financial statement preparation, variance analysis, and management reporting.
• Ensure compliance with GAAP and maintain strong accounting controls and balance sheet integrity.
• Improve the accuracy, timeliness, consistency, and usefulness of financial reporting.
• Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of the company’s manufacturing cost accounting processes.
• Develop and maintain accurate standard costs, including materials, labor, overhead, freight, outside services, and other cost drivers.
• Analyze product profitability and manufacturing variances, including material, labor, overhead, scrap, yield, inventory, purchasing, and cost-of-goods-sold variances.
• Partner with operations to identify root causes, improve costing accuracy, strengthen performance visibility, and drive corrective actions.
• Lead the development, validation, governance, and ongoing maintenance of bills of materials, routings, work-center rates, overhead assumptions, and item master data.
• Ensure new products, changes, and operating assumptions are supported by complete costing, accurate master data, and disciplined change control.
• Lead the finance workstream for ERP selection, implementation, testing, deployment, and post-implementation optimization.
• Define accounting, costing, inventory, reporting, workflow, data governance, and internal control requirements within the ERP environment.
• Establish and maintain effective controls over raw materials, work in process, finished goods, supplies, and related inventory categories.
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