Controller, Accounting, Financial Compliance

A growing, high-volume organization is seeking an experienced Controller to lead its accounting and finance operations. Reporting to the CEO, the Controller will oversee financial reporting, accounting operations, cash management, budgeting, internal controls, compliance, and team leadership. This is a hands-on leadership role suited to a finance professional who can manage day-to-day accounting execution while also providing strategic financial insight to senior leadership.

The ideal candidate will bring strong technical accounting skills, business judgment, process discipline, and experience operating in a fast-paced, transaction-heavy environment.

• Lead monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close processes, targeting a monthly close within 7–10 business days.
• Ensure accurate GAAP and tax-basis financial statements, reconciliations, schedules, and supporting documentation.
• Prepare monthly management reporting comparing actual results to budget, forecast, and prior year.
• Analyze revenue, COGS, gross margin, freight, rebates, commissions, credits, returns, and other key financial drivers.
• Identify financial trends, variances, risks, and opportunities and provide actionable recommendations to executive leadership.
• Maintain strong accounting policies, procedures, approval controls, and segregation of duties.

• Lead annual budgeting and periodic forecasting/reforecasting in partnership with operating leaders.
• Provide financial analysis to support pricing, customer and vendor programs, contracts, new products, capital expenditures, hiring, and other investments.
• Support ownership, lenders, advisors, audits, transactions, and due-diligence requests as needed.
• Serve as a trusted financial advisor to the CEO and senior leadership.

• Own a rolling 13-week cash-flow forecast and provide ongoing visibility into liquidity.
• Oversee bank reconciliations, treasury activities, payment controls, banking administration, and borrowing-base/covenant reporting.
• Improve working capital across accounts receivable, accounts payable, inventory, customer deposits, and vendor terms.
• Monitor and escalate significant liquidity, credit, collection, inventory, or financial risks.

• Establish and enforce credit and collections policies, including customer onboarding, credit limits, exceptions, and escalation procedures.
• Monitor aging, DSO, past-due exposure, disputes, deductions, bad-debt reserves, and customer concentration.
• Oversee controls for cash application, credit memos, refunds, write-offs, and customer account changes.
• Partner with sales and executive leadership to resolve significant credit and collection issues.
• Ensure timely and accurate AP processing, invoice approvals, three-way matching, vendor-master controls, and duplicate-payment prevention.
• Optimize payment terms and vendor-related cash-flow opportunities.
• Oversee accounting for vendor rebates, allowances, billbacks, freight programs, accruals, returns, and other supplier economics.
• Ensure amounts due from vendors are properly recorded, reconciled, and collected.

• Oversee inventory valuation, product costing, and landed-cost accounting, including freight, duties, tariffs, and brokerage.
• Manage cycle counts, physical inventories, warehouse/3PL reconciliations, shrinkage, obsolescence, reserves, and write-offs.
• Reconcile inventory records, the general ledger, warehouse/3PL balances, and inventory in transit.
• Investigate inventory variances and protect gross-margin accuracy across stocked, imported, drop-ship, private-label, special-order, and branded products.

• Oversee payroll, commissions, incentive compensation, and related accruals with appropriate controls and confidentiality.
• Reconcile payroll to the general ledger and coordinate payroll tax filings and W-2/1099 reporting.
• Coordinate financial administration and reconciliation of employee benefit programs with external providers.
• Oversee multi-state sales and use tax compliance, exemption documentation, income/franchise tax support, property tax, and other required filings.
• Coordinate audits, tax engagements, insurance audits, lender reporting, and other external financial requirements.
• Maintain effective internal controls, documentation, record retention, and audit readiness.

• Serve as the finance owner of the ERP environment and partner with IT to maintain accurate accounting…