Products Controller

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• Own the Technologies monthly close process end-to-end across all four operations, 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 Technologies’ project- and contract-based revenue streams.
• Own the integrity of P&L-by-operation reporting across Technologies’ four operations (Polymerics, Mortars, Schwalm, and UV), ensuring revenue, cost, and margin are captured and allocated correctly at the operation level.
• Partner with the Vortex CAO and 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 Technologies and other Vortex Products business units — including intercompany revenue, cost allocations, and balance eliminations.
• Own the roll-up and consolidation of Technologies’ four operations (Polymerics, Mortars, Schwalm, and UV) into a single Technologies-level P&L and balance sheet, ensuring consistent accounting treatment across operations.
• 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 Technologies’ inventory base across its four operations.
• Support Cost of Non-Quality (CoNQ) reporting and reserve modeling as the function matures.

• Design and document Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) across Technologies’ accounting functions
• Standardize data entry formats and reporting conventions across the business, shifting data and process ownership toward the operating level and reducing single-point dependency on the Controller.
• Serve as the Technologies finance…