Controller, Accounting, Financial Reporting

Description About the Role

Garner Foods is seeking a Controller to lead and support the Company's accounting function, including accounting operations, financial reporting, month-end and year-end close, general ledger activity, reconciliations, internal controls, audit support, and accounting process improvement.

This role is responsible for helping ensure that financial information is accurate, timely, properly supported, and useful for business decision-making. The Controller will also support manufacturing-related accounting activities, including inventory, cost of goods sold, production variances, and operational financial reporting.

• Oversee daily accounting operations, including general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll accounting support, reconciliations, accruals, fixed assets, and related accounting activity.
• Lead month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close processes.
• Prepare, review, and analyze financial statements, account reconciliations, journal entries, supporting schedules, and financial reports.
• Maintain accounting records in accordance with company policies, applicable accounting standards, and internal control expectations.
• Strengthen accounting procedures, approval processes, documentation, reconciliations, and internal controls.
• Support FP&A, budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, capital tracking, and financial planning activities.
• Support cash flow forecasting, working capital management, and coordination with treasury/banking activities.
• Partner with leadership to explain financial results, spending trends, cost changes, inventory activity, and business performance.
• Support manufacturing accounting activities related to inventory, cost of goods sold, raw materials, packaging materials, finished goods, overhead, and production variances.
• Maintain and validate standard costing methodology, including BOM’s, labor standards, and overhead allocation.
• Ensure proper accounting and controls over inventory subject to spoilage, expiration, obsolescence, and recall risk, including appropriate reserves and write-offs.
• Coordinate with external auditors, tax advisors, banks, insurance providers, and other external partners as needed.
• Support audit preparation, tax reporting, lender reporting, regulatory reporting, and other financial compliance requirements.
• Identify accounting risks, reporting issues, control gaps, process weaknesses, and opportunities for improvement.
• Support ERP, accounting system, payroll, HRIS, and reporting-related process improvements.
• Ensure integrity of financial data across ERP systems, including chart of accounts governance, reporting consistency, and system controls.
• Build scalable accounting processes to support company growth, increased transaction volume, and evolving requirements.
• Lead, coach, train, and develop accounting employees as assigned.
• Maintain confidentiality of sensitive financial, payroll, employee, vendor, customer, and company information.
• Perform other duties as assigned based on business needs.

A successful Controller is accurate, organized, analytical, confidential, and able to lead accounting work while supporting the business needs of a food manufacturing company. This person understands that accounting execution affects financial reporting, internal controls, audit readiness, inventory accuracy, operational decisions, leadership trust, and business performance.

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field required.
• Accounting degree strongly preferred.
• Minimum of five (5) years of progressive accounting experience required.
• Strong experience with general ledger accounting, month-end close, account reconciliations, journal entries, accrual accounting, financial reporting, and internal controls.
• Strong understanding of financial statements and accounting principles.
• Working knowledge of GAAP, accounting documentation standards, internal controls, and audit support expectations.
• Prior experience in manufacturing, distribution, food manufacturing, consumer products, or another inventory-based business environment preferred.
• Cost accounting,…