Controller, Finance & Banking, Financial Compliance

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2 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $ To $ Annually

Reports To: Chief Financial Officer
Position Type: Full-Time

POSITION SUMMARY

The Controller is a hands-on financial leader responsible for leading the Accounting function and ensuring the integrity, accuracy, and timeliness of the company's financial reporting. This role owns the monthly close, financial statements, internal controls, audit coordination, compliance, and accounting processes while developing and strengthening the Accounting team.

The Controller serves as a key business partner to the CFO and operational leaders, helping stakeholders understand financial performance, identify key business drivers, and make informed decisions that improve profitability and business performance.

This role also serves as a key liaison between Parkson's Finance team and our parent company's Finance team, ensuring effective communication, alignment, and timely delivery of financial reporting, analysis, and other information.

The ideal candidate combines strong technical accounting expertise with business acumen, ERP knowledge, process improvement capabilities, and proven people leadership. Over time, this role will have the opportunity to broaden responsibilities across treasury, banking, corporate finance, M&A, and other strategic growth initiatives with the potential to develop into a broader senior finance leadership role.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes, ensuring timely, accurate, and complete financial reporting.
• Maintain the integrity of the company's financial data, general ledger, account reconciliations, and financial statements.
• Ensure compliance with U.S. GAAP and company accounting policies.
• Lead monthly financial reporting and help business leaders understand results, key drivers, risks, and opportunities.
• Strengthen internal controls, accounting policies, processes, and financial reporting disciplines as the business grows and evolves.
• Lead external audits and financial reviews and coordinate required supporting documentation.
• Serve as a key liaison with the parent company's Finance team, coordinating financial reporting, analysis, information requests, and other finance-related requirements.
• Lead and develop the Accounting team with clear accountability and performance expectations.
• Build organizational capability, cross-training, succession depth, and continuity of critical financial knowledge.
• Foster a collaborative, high-performing culture focused on accuracy, accountability, continuous improvement, and business partnership.

Manufacturing & Operational Finance

• Oversee inventory accounting, cost accounting, and related financial controls.
• Oversee gross margin reporting, project profitability, and operational financial analysis.
• Own the accounting and financial controls around project accounting, revenue recognition, contract assets/liabilities, customer deposits, retainage, backlog-related accounting, and project margin reporting.
• Partner with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Project Management, Engineering, and other business leaders to understand operational performance and identify opportunities to improve profitability.
• Drive working-capital discipline across accounts receivable, inventory, accounts payable, customer deposits, retainage, and other contract-related balances.
• Provide financial insights that support better operational and business decisions.

ERP, Data Integrity & Process Improvement

• Serve as a key Finance owner of the ERP environment, ensuring financial processes, system controls, and data integrity support accurate financial reporting.
• Partner with IT and business functions to improve ERP utilization, financial reporting, and business processes.
• Lead accounting and finance process improvements, automation, and standardization initiatives.
• Support ERP enhancements, implementations, upgrades, and finance transformation initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual processes, strengthen controls, and improve the efficiency and scalability of the Finance organization.

Treasury, Banking & Corporate Finance

• Support treasury activities, cash forecasting, liquidity management, and capital allocation.
• Manage lender reporting, covenant compliance, borrowing-base requirements, and bank audits.
• Support credit facility renewals, financing transactions, and refinancing…