Controller, Accounting, Financial Reporting

United Felts (UF) — the largest operating business unit within Vortex Products, a Quad-C Management portfolio company — is seeking a hands-on Controller to own the accuracy, timeliness, and audit-readiness of its financial statements. This role sits at the center of a finance organization being built from the ground up, and will partner directly with the SVP Finance, business unit leadership, and Corporate/sponsor reporting teams to bring GAAP-compliant, standardized accounting discipline to a multi-location manufacturing business.

The ideal candidate combines strong technical accrual accounting fundamentals with the operational maturity to build process where little exists today, and the judgment to support a PE-backed reporting cadence without losing sight of the numbers’ underlying accuracy.
This position is fully onsite.

• Own the United Felts monthly close process end-to-end, adhering to the corporate close calendar (BD3–BD10 submission cadence, with BD1, BD5, and BD6 internal review checkpoints).
• Prepare and review journal entries, account reconciliations, and supporting schedules in accordance with US GAAP.
• Maintain and continuously improve monthly accrual roll-forwards — including Inventory Allowance, Claims/Warranty, Bad Debt Allowance, Commissions, Bonus, Real Estate & Personal Property Taxes, Marketing/Advertising, and Health Insurance Deficit — with each schedule tying to actual vs. budget on documented, defensible assumptions.
• Apply ASC 606 percentage-of-completion revenue recognition accurately across UF’s project- and contract-based revenue streams.
• Own the integrity of P&L-by-location reporting across UF’s manufacturing and wet-out facility network, ensuring revenue, cost, and margin are captured and allocated correctly at the location level.
• Partner with the SVP Finance to produce audit-ready Adjusted EBITDA reporting each month, including full support and documentation for EBITDA addbacks (transition costs, M&A, restructuring, and other one-time normalization items).
• Support a financial statement flow that walks cleanly from Revenue through Net Income, the EBITDA bridge (interest, taxes, depreciation & amortization), and the addback schedule to Adjusted EBITDA — with every step reconciling on its own, without reliance on plug entries.
• Prepare variance analysis (actual vs. budget, year-over-year) at the P&L line-item level, with clear, well-supported commentary on drivers.
• Support sponsor (Quad-C) and board-level reporting packages, ensuring figures are consistent, reconcilable, and delivered on schedule.

• Own intercompany transaction accounting and elimination entries between United Felts, Max Liner, and other Vortex Products business units — including intercompany revenue, cost allocations, and balance eliminations.
• Support consolidation of BKP Berolina (EUR-denominated) into the broader UF/Vortex reporting structure, including foreign currency translation.
• Ensure intercompany balances are reconciled and confirmed monthly, with discrepancies investigated and resolved on a timely basis.

• Lead the development and implementation of a standard costing methodology within Net Suite.
• Partner with the Inventory Manager to build and enforce inventory accounting SOPs across accounting and operations.
• Own inventory valuation and reserve adequacy (obsolescence, allowance), with increasing scrutiny and detail given the scale of UF’s inventory base.
• Support Cost of Non-Quality (CoNQ) reporting and reserve modeling as the function matures.

• Design and document Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) across UF’s accounting functions
• Standardize data entry…