Job Description
POSITION OPENING: Corporate Controller REPORTS TO: Chief Financial Officer PURPOSE: Responsible for all internal and external financial reporting and accounting activities. JOB DUTIES: •Ensure the Company’s internal controls are properly safeguarding the assets of the Company and ensure the integrity of reported results.
•Directs the Company’s financial reporting both internally and externally.
•Coordinates annual audits.
•Management responsibility of the Company’s accounting functions including General Accounting, Accounts Payable, Payroll, Treasury, and Tax.
•Coordinate the timely preparation of income tax information with the Company’s outside advisors.
•Research and drive implementation of new accounting rules.
•Monitor external GAAP developments, consider the impact of proposed standards and prepare updates for the Company's senior management.
•Proactively keep abreast of the Company's business practices ![]()
to ensure that accounting practices evolve with the business to continue in compliance with GAAP.
•Appraises operating results in terms of costs, budgets and operating policies, trends and increased profit opportunities. •Will work with CFO to establish effective systems for tracking financial performance on a real time basis, GAAP accounting compliance and their relationship to overall operations of the business.
•Maintains professional employee performance standards through proper orientation, training, and counseling. •Perpetuates fair and equitable employee relations, resolves employee grievances and administers discipline according to established personnel policies. Conducts special and annual employee performance appraisals.
•Safeguards the confidentiality of company financial information.
•Will manage multiple projects •Performs other duties as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS: •A BS/BA degree in Accounting/Finance or related field is required.
•CPA required, MBA a plus.
•A minimum of 10 years of accounting experience including senior financial management and international consolidation experience. •In-depth knowledge of successful finance and operations systems and strategies to assure tight controls and sound financial reporting. Must be strong in cost accounting, expense management and financial analysis with a good understanding of cost accounting in a food or manufacturing environment.
•Knowledge of SOX requirements preferred.
•Deal effectively with the details involved with a middle market company yet still have the “big picture” focus associated with the company’s growth.
•Self-motivated and results oriented; able to set own agenda within wide parameters and posses excellent oral and written communication skills.
•Strong and supportive team player who can serve as a strong business partner to the CFO and also able to partner across functional boundaries.
•Thrives in an entrepreneurial environment that has a high intensity level and is fast-paced and always evolving with demonstrated leadership in creating, supporting, and contributing to the culture of the company.
Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Females/Disabled/Viet Vets Updated 6/2006
