Controller; Accounting

Position: Controller (Accounting)
Butcher Power Products (BPP) designs and manufactures mission‑critical and industrial power solutions for essential infrastructure nationwide. Headquartered in Sacramento, CA, our teams collaborate closely across engineering, manufacturing, and operations to build reliable, high‑quality systems and take pride in delivering work that truly matters.
Role Description
The Controller is a high-integrity accounting leader responsible for the accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of the general ledger in a fast-growing manufacturing environment where speed and quality are both non-negotiable.
This role owns a clean, audit-ready GL, a disciplined and efficient close process, and financial statements leadership and the board can rely on. The Controller sets the standard for close execution—predictable, well-controlled, well-documented, and continuously improving.
This is a hands-on, high-accountability role with clear expectations: close on time, close clean, and improve every cycle. The Controller operates as both a senior technical contributor and emerging functional leader, driving performance through expertise, accountability, and influence.
Reporting to the VP of Accounting, this role is critical to audit readiness, financial integrity, and system discipline within D365. As the organization scales, the Controller will expand in scope to include leadership of core accounting functions (AR/AP, project accounting) and cross-functional initiatives.
Core priorities include:

• Close Ownership & Speed — Drive a disciplined, compressed month-end and year-end close with consistent execution and zero surprises. Each cycle should be faster and cleaner than the last.
• GL Integrity & High Standards — Maintain an accurate, reconciled, GAAP-compliant general ledger that withstands board and audit scrutiny.
• Continuous Improvement — Identify sources of friction, error, and risk, and eliminate them systematically.
• Controls & Accountability — Establish clarity, documentation, policies, procedures, and discipline that protect the business and support scalability.
• Functional Expansion — Prepare the accounting function for scale by building processes and structure that can support AR/AP, project accounting, and operational finance ownership.
• Leadership & Mentorship — Lead through expertise, collaboration, and example, building capability today and establishing a foundation for future team leadership.
Core Responsibilities
1. General Ledger Ownership & Close Execution

• Own the full month-end and year-end close cycle, including publishing and enforcing a detailed close calendar with defined task ownership, due dates, and review steps. The close is complete when scheduled, meeting every deadline.
• Coordinate all close activities, including but not limited to: maintaining a real-time reconciliation and close status tracker; ensuring 100% balance sheet account reconciliations; managing subledger cutoffs and AR/AP tie-outs; preparing accrual and prepaid schedules; processing recurring and adjusting journal entries; recording inventory and cost accounting entries; performing intercompany eliminations; managing fixed assets; booking payroll and benefits accruals; completing bank and credit card reconciliations;

and ensuring accurate revenue recognition.
• Continuously compress the close timeline without sacrificing accuracy, controls, or completeness.
• Produce accurate trial balances and financial statements on a schedule aligned with executive and board reporting needs.
2. Integrity, Controls & Compliance

• Enforce strict journal entry and documentation standards, every entry supported, reviewed, and explained
• Design, document, and uphold internal controls across accounting processes, including approval workflows, audit trails, and segregation of duties with uncompromising integrity.
• Ensure consistent GAAP compliance and strong technical accounting judgment throughout the close process. Maintain current, enforced SOPs across accounting workflows.
• Keep the accounting function audit-ready year-round; no year-end scrambling.
• Partner with the VP of Accounting to remediate audit findings or control gaps with permanent, scalable…