Financial Controller

Location on-site, with regular travel across the platform's sites

Reports To Chief Executive Officer (platform)

Kanyon Manufacturing is a growing platform of Midwest manufacturers — custom metal castings and machining in Wisconsin, custom thermoplastic injection molding in Minnesota, with more on the way. We acquire good industrial businesses and build them into something stronger, from design and tooling through production and distribution.

This is not a maintenance role. We are building something — and finance is one of the first things we are building. Today the books are kept on the outside. We need a Financial Controller who wants to bring them home.

We are looking for a Financial Controller to build and own the finance function for the platform — the close, the controls, the reporting, the costing — across our operating companies, and to carry it through every new business we acquire.

Your job is to stand up a clean, consolidated monthly close, put real internal controls in place, and hand leadership numbers they can act on: accurate, traceable, and on time, every period.

Stop here for a second. When the month closes and three numbers don’t tie, what happens in you? If you feel the pull to chase them down until the statement is right — and you would never leave that for someone else — keep reading. If reconciling to the last dollar sounds like someone else’s job, this isn’t your seat.

This is a builder’s role, not a caretaker’s. But it is a builder who works in pencil first, ties out the work, and makes the system hold. You are not here to reinvent accounting. You are here to put a standard, defensible system in place — and run it clean.

You build the case with the numbers. Evidence before opinion. You do not sign off on a figure you cannot trace to its source.

You build systems that hold. A close that lands on the same days every month. A chart of accounts that reads the same across every entity. A reconciliation that is done before anyone asks for it. Nothing falls through.

You finish. The close closes — on time, every period, no drama. You do not let an open item sit, and you do not let a deadline slide.

You read what the numbers are really saying. You can tell a healthy margin from a flattered one, and a real deal from a dressed-up one.

You bring stability, not churn. You measure twice. You want the plan before the move. You will not trade the correct answer for the clever one.

You lead through accurate, on-time output — not noise. You hold the line on controls without turning it into a fight.

• Own the monthly and quarterly close across the operating companies; deliver consolidated financials that tie out and a reporting package leadership and the sponsor can act on.
• Stand up a close calendar — and hit it. Same days, every period.

• Build internal controls and a standardized chart of accounts across entities; keep the books GAAP-clean and audit-ready.
• Manage the relationship with outside accountants and tax advisors, and bring the recurring work in-house as the function matures.

• Own job-costing and standard costing for a low-volume, high-mix custom manufacturing environment; surface true margin by job, product, and plant.
• Partner with operations on quoting accuracy and the quote-to-invoice handoff, so the business bills what it earns, on time.
• Bring discipline to inventory, work-in-process, and vendor accountability.

• Forecast cash, oversee AR/AP and collections discipline, and manage working capital across entities.
• Own intercompany accounting and the day-to-day banking relationships.

• Support diligence on acquisitions and integrate each new company onto the platform’s reporting, controls, and systems.
• Feed the financial numbers into the operating rhythm — scorecards and weekly metrics — so the business runs on facts, not hunches.

• The close lands on schedule, every month, and the numbers tie.
• Leadership trusts the reporting — because it is accurate and it is on time.
• Real controls are in place and the books are audit-ready.
• True job and plant…