Assistance Controller

Jamco America Inc; Everett (WA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 152,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Coverage

Dental and Vision Reimbursement

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Paid Time Off (PTO)

Job summary

Jamco Interiors is seeking an experienced Assistant Controller in Everett, WA to strengthen financial reporting and accounting analysis across the business. Reporting to the Senior Controller, you will lead critical reviews and transform accounting information into actionable insights.

The role emphasizes information quality, controls, and process improvement within a complex aerospace engineering environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes with accurate schedules and supporting documentation.
• Coordinate close deliverables across the Accounting team and reduce cycle time.
• Prepare and review corporate financial-reporting packages to ensure deadlines and definitions.
• Review key journal entries, accruals, reserves, intercompany balances, and estimates for accuracy.
• Lead standard-costs, inventory analysis, and manufacturing variances.
• Support long-term contracts, revenue recognition, and tax-related initiatives.
• Provide coaching and development to accounting staff and improve processes.
• Collaborate with IT and process owners to improve ERP configurations and controls.

Skills

Financial reporting

Accounting analysis

Close process management

Team leadership

Job description

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Full Time Employee Everett, WA, US

3 days ago Requisition ID: 1432

Salary Range: $135,000.00 To $152,000.00 Annually

Location:Everett, Washington
Reports to:Senior Controller
FLSA Status:Exempt

The opportunity

JAMCO Interiors is seeking an experienced and hands-on Assistant Controller to strengthen financial reporting, accounting analysis, and the quality of financial information across the business.

Reporting to the Senior Controller, this role will provide the technical and execution capacity needed to elevate the Controller’s focus toward senior review, leadership, judgment, and accounting transformation. The Assistant Controller will lead critical accounting reviews and analyses, resolve complex issues, and convert accounting information into practical insights and solutions.

The role is intentionally focused on financial-information quality, analysis, controls, team development, and process improvement rather than direct ownership of routine transaction processing. The Assistant Controller will work closely with Accounting, Strategic Finance, Operations, Program Management, Engineering, Supply Chain, Information Technology, and tax and audit advisors.

This is an opportunity for a strong accounting professional who enjoys working through details, solving problems, developing others, and building simpler and more scalable processes within a complex aerospace engineering and manufacturing environment.

What you will do

Financial close and corporate reporting

Lead key activities within the monthly, quarterly, and annual close, ensuring that financial information and supporting schedules are accurate, complete, timely, and consistently prepared.

Coordinate close deliverables across the Accounting team, identify issues and dependencies early, and support continued reduction of the close and reporting cycle.

Prepare and review corporate financial-reporting packages to ensure compliance with required deadlines, formats, accounting definitions, level of detail, supporting documentation, and management explanations.

Perform detailed reviews of financial results, significant variances, unusual items, and changes in estimates; clearly communicate conclusions, risks, and required actions to the Senior Controller and Finance leadership.

Improve the consistency and decision usefulness of financial reporting while maintaining a clear connection between subsidiary records, corporate requirements, and management reporting.

Balance-sheet integrity, reconciliations, and estimates

Lead balance-sheet reviews and account-reconciliation quality, including completeness, supporting documentation, aging, reviewer evidence, issue resolution, and timely certification.

Review significant journal entries, accruals, reserves, allocations, cut-off, intercompany balances, and foreign-currency activity for accuracy, reasonableness, and appropriate support.

Evaluate the completeness and accuracy of estimates and judgmental balances, challenge unsupported assumptions, and coordinate corrective actions before reporting deadlines.

Identify recurring errors, unreconciled items, and control gaps; determine root causes and implement sustainable solutions with accountable process owners.

Standard costs, inventory, and manufacturing analysis

Lead the annual standard-cost setting process and periodic updates, including material, labor, overhead, burden rates, bills of material, routings, and alignment with expected manufacturing activity.

Review the accounting integrity of raw materials, work in process, finished goods, outside processing, and inventory held at third parties.

Analyze purchase-price, labor, overhead, manufacturing, usage, efficiency, and production-volume variances; distinguish accounting issues from operational drivers and communicate actionable insights.

Support physical and cycle counts, inventory reconciliations, cut-off, scrap, obsolescence, excess inventory, and lower-of-cost-or-net-realizable-value assessments.

Partner with Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, Program Management, and Strategic Finance to improve the connection among ERP transactions, production activity, inventory records, the general ledger, program performance, and management reporting.

Technical accounting, tax, and complex initiatives

Research and analyze complex or nonroutine accounting matters and prepare clear, well-supported position papers and recommendations for review by the Senior Controller and CFO.

Support accounting and analysis for long-term contracts, revenue recognition, customer advances, leases, capital projects, reserves, contingencies, restructurings, and business transformations.

Lead or support complex initiatives such as sale-leaseback analyses, legal-entity changes, intercompany arrangements, transfer pricing, and expansion into new jurisdictions.

Coordinate annual income-tax audits and other tax reviews, maintain supporting documentation, and work with internal and external advisors to resolve issues efficiently.

Analyze tax provisions, permanent and temporary differences, credits and incentives, exposures, and planning alternatives to support compliance, cash management, and sustainable improvement of the effective tax rate.

Business insights and problem solving

Translate accounting results and manufacturing-cost information into clear insights for Finance and business leaders.

Investigate unexpected trends and variances, determine root causes, assess financial implications, and recommend practical solutions.

Support profitability, working-capital, cash, and operational analyses by ensuring that underlying accounting information is reliable and appropriately interpreted.

Provide ad hoc accounting and financial analysis for strategic and tactical initiatives led by the Senior Controller, CFO, or broader leadership team.

Process simplification, systems, and controls

Simplify and standardize close, reporting, reconciliation, costing, inventory, and analytical processes while preserving appropriate review and control.

Develop practical solutions that eliminate recurring corrections, inconsistent booking, manual handoffs, duplicate reporting, and unnecessary work.

Identify and implement automation opportunities across reconciliations, journal-entry support, close management, variance analysis, and financial reporting.

Partner with Information Technology and process owners to improve ERP configuration, data quality, reporting tools, integrations, access, and change controls.

Support the design, documentation, monitoring, and remediation of internal controls affecting financial reporting and inventory.

Team leadership and partnership

Provide day-to-day technical guidance, review, coaching, and development to accounting team members without assuming direct ownership of routine transaction processing.

Strengthen the team’s accounting judgment, analytical skills, documentation, attention to detail, and ability to resolve issues independently.

Establish clear expectations, priorities, review standards, and accountability for assigned close, reporting, costing, and analytical activities.

Serve as a trusted partner to the Senior Controller and provide candid, fact-based perspectives, practical alternatives, and reliable follow-through.

Collaborate effectively across functions and translate accounting requirements into practical processes that support the business.

The person we are looking for

You are a technically strong and hands-on accounting professional who combines attention to detail with business curiosity and practical judgment. You are comfortable reviewing financial information, working through complex analyses, identifying what does not make sense, and helping others reach a well-supported conclusion.

You take ownership, communicate clearly, and follow issues through resolution. You enjoy developing people, improving processes, and using technology thoughtfully. You can operate with urgency and flexibility while maintaining high standards for accuracy, completeness, timeliness, consistency, and documentation.

Compensation and benefits

Jamco is passionate about providing a competitive and comprehensive benefits package and pleased to offer the following to eligible employees-

• Medical Coverage
• Dental and Vision Reimbursement
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Benefit Conversion at Termination
• Educational Assistance
• Family and Medical Leave
• Paid Parental Leave (40 hours) *Qualifying event after June 15th, 2022
• Flexible Benefit Plan (Flex Spending)
• Holidays
• Jury Duty/Witness Service Leave
• Life Insurance
• Long-Term Disability
• Short-Term Disability
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Personal Leave
• Wedding Leave
• Wellness Program/Gym Reimbursement
• Pet Insurance

This job description is a simplified overview intended to serve as an initial introduction to the role. It should not be considered a complete recording of the role and responsibilities.

The anticipated base salary range for this position is $135,000.00 to $152,000.00, based on experience, qualifications, internal equity, and market conditions. The position may also be eligible for an annual incentive opportunity and JAMCO’s applicable employee-benefit programs.

JAMCO Interiors is an equal opportunity employer committed to maintaining a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative workplace.