Corporate Controller

Fitzii; Richmond; Remote; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic and innovative company as a Controller, where your expertise in accounting will drive financial integrity and support growth. This role is pivotal in shaping financial processes and ensuring compliance while fostering a collaborative environment. You'll lead a talented team and contribute to strategic decision-making, all while embracing the company's core values of accountability, creativity, and empowerment. If you thrive in a fast-paced setting and are passionate about making a difference, this opportunity is your chance to shine in a hands-on leadership position that values both individual contributions and team success.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years in public and private accounting with CPG experience.
• Strong leadership and communication skills are essential.
• Experience in cost accounting and multi-location manufacturing preferred.

Responsibilities

• Oversee general ledger, financial statements, and cash management.
• Prepare financial reporting packages for management and investors.
• Manage and develop accounting team for quality and productivity.

Skills

Public and private accounting

FP&A

Cost and Inventory Accounting

Plant/Manufacturing Accounting

Problem-solving

Analytical skills

Leadership

Effective communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or related field

CPA or CMA Certification and/or MBA

Tools

Advanced Excel

PowerPoint

PowerBi

ERP financial system (preferably IFS)

Job description

Direct Reports: Senior Accountant, Cost Accountant, AP Manager, Payroll, Outsourced Accounting Firm

Effective Date: February 2025

POSITION SUMMARY

The Controller for Urban Remedy, reporting directly to the CFO, will be a key member of the Finance Team, and will assume an important role in the overall development and growth of the company. The Controller will be responsible for establishing and maintaining routines and controls that verify the integrity of all financial systems, processes, and financial data, and enhance the company's decision-making capabilities.

The ideal candidate must have a strong background in both public and private accounting, solid FP&A, Cost and Inventory Accounting, and Plant/Manufacturing Accounting experience, be knowledgeable about CPG business models, and aspire to be a thought leader. The ideal candidate is also data and technology-centric and is comfortable working in a small company where there is pressure to move quickly, change priorities, and take on large projects. The Controller should be excited about taking on a hands-on leadership role, creating reliable processes and routines to ensure continued company-wide growth and value creation over the next few years. A desire to solve problems and bring about solutions to a growing business is a must.

Urban Remedy’s core values of Our Foundation, Accountability, Creativity, Change, Integrity, and Empowerment guide our team in representing Urban Remedy to our associates, vendors, customers, and the media. All employees are expected to embrace these core values as part of their daily work-life with Urban Remedy.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Responsible for all aspects of the general ledger, including revenue and expense recognition, inventory, payroll, fixed assets, accounts payable, accounts receivable, bank reconciliations, etc.
2. Oversee the preparation of GAAP financial statements and audit-friendly supporting schedules.
3. Oversee weekly cash management and vendor payment process.
4. Prepare weekly and monthly financial reporting packages for management and investors.
5. Oversee all tax reporting and filings for the company, including federal and state income tax, quarterly sales tax, and other filings as necessary.
6. Maintain day-to-day management of the company’s insurance policies.
7. Monitor new accounting and financial reporting guidance, evaluate potential impact to the company, and make recommendations as necessary.
8. Create and maintain a well-organized financial data and document warehouse.
9. Measure and analyze operational and financial performance metrics, dashboards, and scorecards. Provide meaningful insights on operational performance.
10. Interpret and ensure that both Company and financial policies and procedures are understood and consistently followed by others. Develop additional procedures as needed to provide a sufficient internal control environment.
11. Safeguard the assets of the Company by ensuring the availability of accurate and timely financial and accounting records compliant with GAAP and other relevant standards.
12. Create an energizing work environment that supports the Company's culture while ensuring an efficient and flexible organization.
13. Facilitate the development of annual department expense budgets and forecasts for operations and logistics, including freight, as well as monitoring periodic performance to budget and forecast.
14. Manage, train, and develop department staff to enhance quality and productivity, including mentoring staff and maintaining a two-way dialogue with direct reports on work and performance.
15. Achieve results and bring out the best in people by developing relevant job design and ensuring appropriate staffing to deliver the department's strategy operating plan and short-term objectives.

QUALIFICATIONS

Position-Specific Skills Required

1. 5 – 8 years in both public and private accounting; large accounting firm and/or large bank experience preferred.
2. Accounting experience in an omni-channel CPG environment.
3. Experience in general ledger closes in a cost accounting environment, preferably in a multi-location process manufacturing environment. Food manufacturing experience is a plus. Experience in inventory strongly preferred.
4. Strong knowledge of all functions and systems for internal controls, internal and external reporting, audit, tax, and lease accounting.
5. Experience managing payroll and knowledge of payroll legal reporting and regulations.
6. Strong Excel, written, organizational, and verbal communication skills.
7. Robust problem-solving and analytical skills.

Leadership Skills Required

1. Strong leadership ability, including self-confidence, integrity, sound judgment and decision-making, and can maintain confidentiality of sensitive information.
2. Proven managerial experience developing a professional accounting team.
3. Committed to quality and excellence; detail-driven and execution-focused.
4. Passionate, high-energy, visionary leader, capable of driving speed and discipline throughout the organization.
5. Effective communicator, both internally and externally.
6. Impeccable judgment and strategic thought leadership.
7. Highly entrepreneurial spirit with the ability to operate nimbly.
8. Down-to-earth personal style with high humility and integrity.
9. Passionate about entrepreneurialism, innovation, change, and supporting growth.
10. Dedicated to Urban Remedy’s mission and showing up with the ability to inspire excellence in others.

Technical Skills Required

1. Strong desktop software skills, ideally including advanced Excel (i.e., pivot tables, V-lookups, macros), PowerPoint, and PowerBi.
2. Comprehensive knowledge of an ERP financial system (preferably IFS), including cost accounting and manufacturing modules/systems and standard product costing, including activity-based costing.

Education/Training Required

1. Bachelor’s degree, or its equivalent, in accounting, finance, or related field.
2. CPA or CMA Certification and/or MBA preferred.

WORK ENVIRONMENT AND PHYSICAL DEMANDS

This position is primarily remote but must be available for periodic in-person meetings and to supervise inventories, etc., in the San Francisco Bay Area. This position works in a standard office environment with extended use of the computer/keyboard and sitting, as well as use of other office equipment such as phone and copier.

EXPECTATIONS & DEVELOPMENT

As a member of the Urban Remedy team, we expect you to be accountable for your actions, to challenge existing processes, and to grow both professionally and personally. This means having the willingness to claim 100% ownership for results, both individually and collectively with others, and to “think outside of the box” when it comes to processes, policies, and strategies. It also requires seeking out new knowledge and skills and assisting others in growing similarly.

Urban Remedy employees are also expected to exemplify a commitment to Urban Remedy’s sustainability goals as they relate to your role, your department, and personal responsibility for conserving resources such as energy, water, and waste.

ABOUT URBAN REMEDY

Urban Remedy is an organic food company that embodies the belief that Food is Healing. Blending ancient medicinal principles with modern culinary innovation, we offer the cleanest, naturally functional food. All of our ready-to-eat meals, snacks, and cold-pressed juices are certified organic, certified non-GMO, gluten-free, and low glycemic. Urban Remedy ships directly to customers from its headquarters in Point Richmond, CA, and also operates several retail locations in the San Francisco Bay Area.