Controller

Confidential Careers; Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential Careers is seeking a hands-on Controller to partner with a personable CFO and drive financial strategy in a midsized healthcare-related manufacturing company.

You will lead the accounting team through GAAP reporting, audits, and close processes while collaborating with PE owners and executive management. The role emphasizes cost control, product costing, and continuous improvement across plant operations.

Qualifications

• Experience with private equity or holding-owned companies is a must.
• Strong GAAP accounting background with monthly close and reporting.
• Manufacturing industry experience is highly preferred.
• Proven track record in cost accounting and process improvements.

Responsibilities

• Prepare GAAP financial statements and reports for owners, lenders and executives.
• Lead accounting team; collaborate with auditors and optimize the team’s performance.
• Interface with department leaders to deepen internal and external partnerships.
• Direct and validate labor, inventory, receipts, scrap, variances, fixed assets and journal entries; reconcile balance sheets monthly.
• Identify reporting discrepancies and resolve system/process issues.
• Analyze monthly plant results and implement cost-reduction measures; explain variances.
• Ensure product costing integrity and focus on product-line improvements.

Skills

GAAP accounting

Financial statements

Leadership

Process improvement

Cost reduction

Manufacturing

Private Equity exposure

Budgeting

Internal controls

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

With a dynamic personality and the ability to dig in the weeds yet strategize about the big picture, this Controller will be the right hand to an amazing personable CFO.

Company is midsized in Annual Revenue

Why this Controller role - What's in it for you?

• The company has seen regularly sustained double digit growth the last 3 year on a top line and bottom line basis.
• The company is tracking for continued growth based on the fundamentals of their industry.
• Company is a sustained bellwether and positioned to continue to optimize their market position and value proposition.
• Mid-Sized Company Healthcare company

Duties of the Controller:

• Preparation of GAAP financial statements and supplemental financial reports for private equity (PE) owners, bank lenders, and Executive management.
• Lead the accounting team by bringing the technical know-how to interact and interface with auditors and continue to develop the accounting team.
• Interact effectively with all department leaders within the company, this role needs a desire to deepen relationships with internal and external partners of the organization
• Direct and validate all accounting activities including labor distribution, inventories, general receipts, scrap, rework, too-die-maintenance, accounts receivable, accounts payable, production order variances and fixed assets transactions and journal entries. (Includes monthly reconciliation of balance sheet accounts.)
• Identify and resolve reporting discrepancies and concerns involving system processing or plant policies and procedures.
• Analyze monthly plant financial results. Initiate and implement cost reduction recommendations in both product and operations. Explain variances and corrective action taken to eliminate unfavorable variances or maintain favorable variances.
• Ensure the integrity of plant product costs by generating and reviewing monthly weighted cost reports. Make recommendations and focus plant management on products or product groups that need improvement.

What Qualifies you for the Controller Role?

• Detail orientated ability, but also having the big picture in mind and the ability to present financials to owners.
• Experience working for a Private Equity or holding owned Company ideally
• Manufacturing experience is ideal
• Proven ability to design, implement, and lead process improvements.