Job Description

Manchester Tank has a proud heritage of hard-working people, who for over 75 years have manufactured high quality products for our country and the world. The McWane Way Compass is provided as a personal guide to help team members navigate through situations they encounter daily at work. All team members are expected to know these principles, values, and behaviors. The McWane Way ensures higher levels of safety and environmental performance in all our operations. It also improves communication, relationships, and work performance at all levels of our organization. The McWane Way Compass includes eight core principles to guide our team members: Communication, Safety, Environment, Leadership, Trust, Excellence, Accountability, and Teamwork. 

Job Description

Summary

The Controller is responsible for the accounting operations of the company and ensuring policy, processes and controls are in place to protect company assets and ensure accurate reporting of company financials. Responsibilities include leading the annual budget process and the monthly close process. The Controller is also responsible for organization development of the extended Accounting team.

Primary Responsibilities

 

• Responsible for maintaining the company ledger, including effective implementation of the new McW/AX ledger structure
• Leads the annual budget process
• Leads the monthly close process with a goal to reduce six-day close process by 50%
• Responsible for financial reporting, meeting all established deadlines
• Performs annual risk assessment; prepares and leads the execution of annual controllership improvement plan
• Develops policy/procedures and management controls to ensure standard accounting processes across all global facilities in compliance with US GAAP
• Leads a global accounting team of ~10 team-members; maintains established team operating rhythms including Controllership Council, Bi-Annual Balance Sheet Review and Team Meetings
• Responsible for organization and employee development of the accounting team
• Coordinates all audit support and internal audit activities as necessary
• Lead the financial integration process in the event of any acquisition
• Supervises accounting functions including A/P, payroll and required taxes
• Perform monthly/quarterly financial variance analysis; supports action plan development for cost reduction opportunities and drives accountability throughout organization
• Functional ownership of the Franklin, Canada and DC ledgers
• Lead accounting team through successful go-live of Microsoft AX, ensuring all accounting processes are fully documented and team is fully cross-trained
• Drives continuous improvement throughout the accounting function to eliminate waste and increase team productivity
• Establish and maintain organized central repository for all critical team documents
• Performs monthly bank reconciliations
• Develops and implements standard global account reconciliation process
• Perform Excel modeling to support strategic decision making as requested

Qualifications

Competencies and Skills Required

• High level of curiosity and attention to detail
• Highly proactive in nature
• Ability to effectively navigate between the details and the big picture in order to prioritize effectively
• High aptitude for leading through complexity – critical thinking
• Change leadership
• Strong team leadership
• Ability to develop strong relationships across all levels in an organization
• Strong, articulate written and oral communication skills
• Advanced general PC, ERP and Excel skills; Proficient in PowerPoint
• Ability to multi-task and team-lead in order to deliver results across multiple areas in parallel

 

Experience Required

• Seven years experience in general accounting/accounting management, manufacturing experience strongly preferred
• Public accounting experience preferred
• Bachelors degree in accounting or business with accounting emphasis

 

 

Additional Information

This job operates in an office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. Must be able to work under stress occasioned by production requirements and personnel.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform essential functions of this job. The person in this role may be occasionally required to sit, climb or balance, and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

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McWane is a Federal VEVRAA contractor, and an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all employment practices. McWane will not discriminate against any applicant for employment because of their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, veteran or service member status, marital status, citizenship status (In IL - sex, including same sex, ancestry, order of protection status, physical or mental disability, military status, pregnancy, unfavorable discharge status, genetic information), (In IA - gender identity), (In CA- gender identity or expression, and genetic information) or any other category protected by federal, state or local law.

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