Assistance Controller

JAMCO Interiors is seeking an experienced and hands‑on Assistant Controller to strengthen financial reporting, accounting analysis, and the quality of financial information across the business.

Location:

Everett, Washington

Reports to:

Senior Controller

FLSA Status:
Exempt

Lead key activities within the monthly, quarterly, and annual close, ensuring that financial information and supporting schedules are accurate, complete, timely, and consistently prepared.

Coordinate close deliverables across the Accounting team, identify issues and dependencies early, and support continued reduction of the close and reporting cycle.

Prepare and review corporate financial‑reporting packages to ensure compliance with required deadlines, formats, accounting definitions, level of detail, supporting documentation, and management explanations.

Perform detailed reviews of financial results, significant variances, unusual items, and changes in estimates; clearly communicate conclusions, risks, and required actions to the Senior Controller and Finance leadership.

Improve the consistency and decision usefulness of financial reporting while maintaining a clear connection between subsidiary records, corporate requirements, and management reporting.

Lead balance‑sheet reviews and account‑reconciliation quality, including completeness, supporting documentation, aging, reviewer evidence, issue resolution, and timely certification.

Review significant journal entries, accruals, reserves, allocations, cut‑off, intercompany balances, and foreign‑currency activity for accuracy, reasonableness, and appropriate support.

Evaluate the completeness and accuracy of estimates and judgmental balances, challenge unsupported assumptions, and coordinate corrective actions before reporting deadlines.

Identify recurring errors, unreconciled items, and control gaps; determine root causes and implement sustainable solutions with accountable process owners.

Lead the annual standard‑cost setting process and periodic updates, including material, labor, overhead, burden rates, bills of material, routings, and alignment with expected manufacturing activity.

Review the accounting integrity of raw materials, work in process, finished goods, outside processing, and inventory held at third parties.

Analyze purchase‑price, labor, overhead, manufacturing, usage, efficiency, and production‑volume variances; distinguish accounting issues from operational drivers and communicate actionable insights.

Support physical and cycle counts, inventory reconciliations, cut‑off, scrap, obsolescence, excess inventory, and lower‑of‑cost‑or‑net‑realizable‑value assessments.

Partner with Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, Program Management, and Strategic Finance to improve the connection among ERP transactions, production activity, inventory records, the general ledger, program performance, and management reporting.

Research and analyze complex or nonroutine accounting matters and prepare clear, well‑supported position papers and recommendations for review by the Senior Controller and CFO.

Support accounting and analysis for long‑term contracts, revenue recognition, customer advances, leases, capital projects, reserves, contingencies, restructurings, and business transformations.

Lead or support complex initiatives such as sale‑leaseback analyses, legal‑entity changes, intercompany arrangements, transfer pricing, and expansion into new jurisdictions.

Coordinate annual income‑tax audits and other tax reviews, maintain supporting documentation, and…