Vice President & Corporate Controller
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- C level
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 12+ years
- Category
- Finance
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 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
Nice to have
- 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
Full description
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
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
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Lead the enterprise close, consolidation and financial processes and establish clear reporting standards, review protocols, and accountability for financial information.
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Ensure consolidated financial results are accurate, complete, timely, and supported by appropriate documentation.
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Oversee corporate departmental accounting
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Identify and resolve significant accounting, reporting and control
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Lead the incorporation of acquired businesses into enterprise accounting and reporting standards and processes.
Accounting Authority and Technical Review
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Serve as the senior accounting authority below the Chief Financial Officer for enterprise accounting policies, technical accounting conclusions, and consolidated financial statement
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Review and approve material accounting conclusions, including supporting documentation, classification, presentation, and
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Evaluate complex and nonrecurring transactions and determine the appropriate level of technical support and
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Engage and manage external accounting specialists as
Financial Controls and Reporting Governance
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Establish and maintain close, journal-entry, reconciliation, and financial reporting review
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Define standards governing the documentation, review, approval and retention of accounting
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Drive timely remediation of financial close-related control deficiencies and recurring reporting
Finance Systems and Financial Data Governance
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Oversee finance business requirements for systems used to close, consolidate, and report actual financial results.