Vice President & Corporate Controller

PlayCore Holdings, Inc.; Chattanooga (TN); On-site; USD 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

PlayCore Holdings, Inc. seeks a seasoned executive to lead enterprise accounting, close, consolidation, and financial reporting. The role establishes reporting standards, controls, and documentation robust enough to support growth, acquisitions, and expanding organizational complexity.

You will oversee treasury, data governance, and shared finance services, building a high-performing team and partnering with business units to drive performance and integrity across the financial function.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field.
• At least 12 years of progressive finance or accounting experience, including at least five years leading teams and significant controllership, accounting, consolidation, or financial reporting.
• Experience in a mature, control-based environment with rigorous documentation, review, evidence, financial-reporting discipline, and accountability.
• Experience supporting a multi-site or multi-business.
• Experience implementing or transforming enterprise accounting processes, financial controls, reporting standards, financial systems, automation, or data governance across multiple
• Experience designing, leading, or scaling shared services, centralized transaction processing, or enterprise accounting.
• Demonstrated expertise in U.S. GAAP, consolidated financial reporting, close management, accounting policy, and SOX compliant internal controls.
• Demonstrated ability to balance technical rigor with materiality, risk, pace, and business needs.
• Experience using enterprise financial systems, consolidation tools, reporting platforms, and advanced spreadsheet skills.
• Strong leadership, communication, analytical, organizational and change-management abilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead the enterprise close, consolidation and financial processes and establish clear reporting standards, review protocols, and accountability for financial information.
• Ensure consolidated financial results are accurate, complete, timely, and supported by appropriate documentation.
• Identify and resolve significant accounting, reporting and control gaps.
• Lead the incorporation of acquired businesses into enterprise accounting and reporting standards and processes.
• Serve as the senior accounting authority below the CFO for enterprise accounting policies, technical accounting conclusions, and consolidated financial statements.
• Review and approve material accounting conclusions, including supporting documentation, classification, presentation, and disclosure.
• Evaluate complex and nonrecurring transactions and determine the appropriate level of technical support and review.
• Engage and manage external accounting specialists as needed.
• Establish and maintain close, journal-entry, reconciliation, and financial reporting review processes.
• Define standards governing documentation, review, approval and retention of accounting records.
• Drive timely remediation of close-related control deficiencies and recurring reporting issues.
• Oversee finance systems and data governance for close, consolidation, and reporting.
• Establish governance for COA, reporting hierarchy, master data, system access and approvals.
• Prioritize finance automation and process improvement.
• Develop and execute a long-term strategy for shared transaction processing and centralized services.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, controls, service quality, and scalability through standardization and technology.
• Establish service levels, performance measures, and continuous improvement.
• Oversee treasury operations and covenant reporting; support CFO on liquidity and capital-structure matters.

Skills

Leadership

GAAP

SOX

Consolidation

Financial Reporting

Team Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance/Accounting/Business Admin

Tools

ERP Systems

Consolidation Tools

Advanced Excel

Job description

This role provides leadership for enterprise accounting, close and consolidation, financial reporting, shared finance services, treasure operations, and financial data governance. This position is responsible for building a disciplined, service-oriented organization capable of supporting organic growth, acquisitions, and increasing organizational complexity. This includes developing standardized and scalable solutions for routine finance activities, improving quality, consistency, efficiency and controls while creating capacity for business-unit finance teams to focus more fully on operating performance and strategic business partnership.

Enterprise Accounting, Close, and Financial Reporting

Lead the enterprise close, consolidation and financial processes and establish clear reporting standards, review protocols, and accountability for financial information.

Ensure consolidated financial results are accurate, complete, timely, and supported by appropriate documentation.

Identify and resolve significant accounting, reporting and control

Lead the incorporation of acquired businesses into enterprise accounting and reporting standards and processes.

Accounting Authority and Technical Review

Serve as the senior accounting authority below the Chief Financial Officer for enterprise accounting policies, technical accounting conclusions, and consolidated financial statement

Review and approve material accounting conclusions, including supporting documentation, classification, presentation, and

Evaluate complex and nonrecurring transactions and determine the appropriate level of technical support and

Engage and manage external accounting specialists as

Financial Controls and Reporting Governance

Establish and maintain close, journal-entry, reconciliation, and financial reporting review

Define standards governing the documentation, review, approval and retention of accounting

Drive timely remediation of financial close-related control deficiencies and recurring reporting

Finance Systems and Financial Data Governance

Oversee finance business requirements for systems used to close, consolidate, and report actual financial results.

Establish governance for the chart of accounts, reporting hierarchy, financial master data, system access, and approval

Prioritize finance automation and process improvement

Shared Finance Services

Develop and execute a long-term strategy for standardized or shared transaction processing

Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, controls, service quality, and scalability through process standardization, technology enablement, and organizational

Establish appropriate service levels, performance measures, and continuous improvement

Treasury Operations

Oversee treasury operation, including cash-position visibility, banking administration, treasury accounting, and debt-accounting

Ensure accurate financial information is available for covenant reporting and routine treasury

Support the Chief Financial Officer on liquidity, financing, lender, and capital-structure matters as

Leadership and Collaboration

Build, lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team with clear accountability and decision

Assess organizational capability, succession risk, and key-person dependencies while developing future leaders and critical

Build effective partnerships across other corporate and business

Foster a culture of integrity, accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and sound financial decision-making.

Qualifications and Requirements

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related

At least 12 years of progressive finance or accounting experience, including at least five years leading teams and significant controllership, accounting, consolidation, or financial reporting

Experience in a mature, control-based environment with rigorous documentation, review, evidence, financial-reporting discipline, and accountability

Experience supporting a multi-site or multi-business

Experience implementing or transforming enterprise accounting processes, financial controls, reporting standards, financial systems, automation, or data governance across multiple

Experience designing, leading, or scaling shared services, centralized transaction processing, or enterprise accounting

Demonstrated expertise in U.S. GAAP, consolidated financial reporting, close management, accounting policy, and SOX compliant internal

Demonstrated ability to balance technical rigor with materiality, risk, pace, and business

Experience using enterprise financial systems, consolidation tools, reporting platforms, and advanced spreadsheet

Strong leadership, communication, analytical, organizational and change-management

Preferred Qualifications

CPA, MBA or

Experience in manufacturing, distribution, or a similarly complex operating

Experience with acquisition accounting, financial integration, and the incorporation of acquired businesses into enterprise-level reporting

Experience with private equity backed environments and related financial reporting

Experience improving financial systems, processes, and reporting across multiple

Technical accounting and financial reporting expertise

Process transformation and systems thinking

Integrity and sound judgment

Accountability and execution

Leadership and talent development

Cross-functional collaboration

Clear executive communication

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