Hands-On Manufacturing Controller — Build from Scratch

tggaccounting; Plainfield (IN); On-site; USD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Paid time off

Bonus opportunity

Job summary

tggaccounting is partnering with a growing manufacturing company to appoint a hands-on Controller who will build the accounting and finance function from the ground up. You will own day-to-day execution and longer-term financial strategy, developing costing, budgeting, and planning processes to support rapid growth.

You will collaborate across engineering, operations, purchasing, and sales to align financial performance with operational activity, while establishing formal forecasting and banking

Qualifications

• Previous experience as a Controller within a manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated experience building an accounting or finance function from the ground up or joining an organization where significant financial infrastructure needed to be created.
• Strong manufacturing accounting experience, including job costing, inventory costing, and cost analysis.
• Hands-on experience with QuickBooks.
• Experience developing budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning processes from scratch.
• Strong understanding of cash flow management and working-capital needs within a growing manufacturing organization.
• Experience with quoting, pricing, and profitability models.
• Experience establishing and managing banking relationships, including securing or managing a line of credit.
• Ability to operate as a hands-on financial leader without relying on a large accounting staff.
• Strong relationship-building and influencing skills, with the ability to work effectively with ownership, operations, engineering, sales, purchasing, outside advisors, and investors.
• A proactive, self-directed personality with the confidence to identify problems, develop solutions, and drive change.
• Comfortable wearing many hats and moving between tactical accounting responsibilities and high-level strategic conversations.

Responsibilities

• Own the accounting and finance function for the business, taking responsibility for day-to-day execution and longer-term financial strategy.
• Build and develop the company’s accounting and finance department from the ground up, including identifying future staffing needs as the business grows.
• Take ownership of existing accounting responsibilities, including invoicing, payroll, payables, and related financial processes.
• Develop and implement job costing and inventory costing processes to improve visibility into true product and project profitability.
• Evaluate existing costing assumptions and identify where margins, labor, material costs, or other inputs may be negatively impacting profitability.
• Rebuild and own the company’s quoting and pricing model to ensure work is priced profitably and consistently.
• Partner with engineering, operations, purchasing, and sales to improve the connection between operational activity and financial performance.
• Establish formal budgeting, forecasting, financial planning, and forward-looking reporting processes.
• Develop a disciplined planning cadence that gives leadership greater visibility into cash flow, profitability, capital requirements, and future business needs.
• Manage cash flow and help transition the organization from receivables-based financing toward stronger banking relationships and an established line of credit.
• Build and maintain relationships with banking partners and support financing initiatives.
• Develop financial models and business cases for future facility expansion, equipment purchases, and other capital investments.
• Perform detailed financial analysis to identify margin, profitability, costing, and performance issues and recommended corrective actions.
• Partner directly with ownership and senior leadership on strategic initiatives and corporate development activities.
• Support relationships with outside investors, banking partners, and the company’s external CPA.
• Help create scalable financial processes and infrastructure that can support continued company growth.

Skills

Controller experience

Manufacturing accounting

Job costing

Inventory costing

Budgeting

Forecasting

Cash flow

Pricing

Strategic leadership

Stakeholder management

Tools

QuickBooks

Job description

tggaccounting is partnering with a growing manufacturing company to appoint a hands-on Controller who will build the accounting and finance function from the ground up. You will own day-to-day execution and longer-term financial strategy, developing costing, budgeting, and planning processes to support rapid growth.

You will collaborate across engineering, operations, purchasing, and sales to align financial performance with operational activity, while establishing formal forecasting and banking