Division Accounting Controller

Job Summary

Nidec is the world’s No. 1 comprehensive motor manufacturer handling “everything that spins and moves,” from miniature to gigantic. We manufacture commercial, industrial, appliance motors and controls, and we are a global enterprise with over 300 subsidiaries and 140,000 employees worldwide. In the Americas, we supply premium motors and advanced solutions for industrial, commercial, and residential applications.

Shift: 1st Shift (Monday - Friday) – 8:00am to 5:00pm

Location:

On‑Site, Mankato, MN

Compensation: $118,200 – $189,100 (bi‑weekly) – includes bonus opportunities.

Competitive salary, health and wellness coverage, 401(k) plan with 100% match on first 6% and an extra 3% employer contribution, generous time off (PTO and holidays), tuition reimbursement.

The Division Accounting Controller is the enterprise accounting leader for the division, responsible for end‑to‑end financial integrity and standardizing accounting processes across all sites. The role builds a centralized, scalable accounting model that strengthens governance, improves consistency, and supports business decisions in a high‑growth manufacturing environment.

• Own financial reporting accuracy and completeness across the division, ensure results are reliable, supportable, and aligned with enterprise controllership expectations.
• Act as the division’s authority for accounting decisions, technical interpretations, and policy application, ensuring consistent judgment across the organization.
• Ensure compliance with accounting standards, internal policies, and divisional governance requirements across all sites and legal entities within scope.
• Maintain a strong internal control environment by enforcing segregation of duties, approval flows, and clearly defined responsibilities for key accounting activities.
• Lead the accounting organization and govern the shared services relationship to ensure transactional execution supports divisional control, close, and reporting requirements.
• Lead the division’s month‑end close and reporting process, ensuring financial results are accurate, timely, and well supported.
• Establish and enforce close governance through standardized calendars, account ownership, reconciliation expectations, and escalation protocols that drive consistency and accountability.
• Coordinate end‑to‑end close execution across divisional accounting teams, site finance resources, shared services, and other divisions to ensure deadlines are met and deliverables are completed with integrity.
• Own balance sheet governance for the division by ensuring reconciliations, account substantiation, and supporting documentation are completed accurately and consistently across multiple sites.
• Drive continuous improvement in close cycle performance, reporting quality, and issue resolution by simplifying workflows, reducing rework, and improving visibility to close risks and bottlenecks.
• Lead the redesign and implementation of the division’s accounting operating model, transitioning from decentralized site‑based execution to a centralized controllership structure with clear decision rights and ownership.
• Drive standardization of close, reconciliation, journal entry, and balance sheet governance processes across all sites to create a consistent and scalable control environment.
• Lead the transfer of accounting ownership, control activities, and process accountability into the future‑state model, including alignment of ERP workflows, access, and approval structures.
• Partner with Finance, FP&A, Operations, and Shared Services leaders to define service boundaries, governance mechanisms, and cross‑functional handoffs required to sustain the transformed operating model.
• Serve as the primary contact for internal and external auditors, coordinate responses, support documentation, and issue resolution.
• Ensure timely remediation of audit findings, control gaps, and compliance issues, with clear ownership and follow‑through to sustainable resolution.
• Maintain audit readiness across accounting processes by ensuring documentation, reconciliations, controls, and evidence are consistently complete and…