Corporate Controller - Finance Transformation

Georgia-Pacific LLC; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Paid vacation and parental leave

Educational assistance

Retirement plan

Life insurance

Job summary

Georgia-Pacific LLC, based in Atlanta, seeks a Corporate Controller to lead the Controllers organization and report to the Chief Accounting Officer. You will strengthen trust in financial results and support long-term value creation through disciplined controllership and transformation initiatives.

The role requires broad accounting leadership, strong business acumen, and the ability to guide through complexity and change, influencing outcomes through trusted relationships.

Qualifications

• Experience leading accounting, controllership, financial reporting, or finance organizations within a complex business environment.
• Experience overseeing financial reporting, accounting operations, internal controls, and audit activities.
• Experience developing leaders and building organizational capability through coaching, delegation, and accountability.
• Experience partnering with senior leaders across finance and business functions to support strategic decision-making.
• Experience leading process, systems, technology, data, or organizational transformation initiatives within accounting or finance functions.
• Experience leveraging technology, analytics, automation, or artificial intelligence to improve finance and accounting outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a high-performing accounting organization by strengthening leadership capability, building talent pipelines, establishing clear accountability, and aligning resources with the highest-value opportunities.
• Prott the integrity of financial reporting through effective oversight of accounting operations, financial statements, internal controls, audit activities, and risk management processes.
• Partner with business and manufacturing leaders to translate business and operational priorities into capability priorities that enable strong decision support and actions that improve long-term business outcomes.
• Drive disciplined execution across reporting, controls, audits, compliance activities, and strategic initiatives by establishing clear priorities, ownership, operating cadences, and measures of success.
• Champion transformation through simplification, standardization, automation, and the effective use of technology, data, analytics, and AI to improve scalability, insight, control effectiveness, and organizational efficiency.
• Communicate complex accounting and business matters clearly and effectively to senior leaders, providing transparent recommendations, surfacing risks early, and enabling informed decision-making.

Skills

Leadership experience

Financial reporting

Controllership

Internal controls

Audit coordination

Strategic partnering

Technology/Data/AI in finance

Education

CPA or equivalent

Job description

Georgia-Pacific LLC, based in Atlanta, seeks a Corporate Controller to lead the Controllers organization and report to the Chief Accounting Officer. You will strengthen trust in financial results and support long-term value creation through disciplined controllership and transformation initiatives.

The role requires broad accounting leadership, strong business acumen, and the ability to guide through complexity and change, influencing outcomes through trusted relationships.