Controller

Reports To : Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

Location : Remote Available (Core accounting teams are located in Charlotte and

Durham, North Carolina)

Position Overview

The Controller serves as a critical business partner to leadership, providing real-time financial insight, driving operational excellence, and leading a geographically dispersed team of accounting professionals. This role offers excellent remote flexibility, allowing you to work from home while maintaining an active, collaborative presence with our core teams based in North Carolina.

This is not a high-altitude administrative position. We are seeking a true doer, a hands-on selfstarter who thrives in ambiguous environments and loves to roll up their sleeves to build clean financial structures. This position offers a phenomenal career step for an accounting leader ready to anchor a standalone mid-market business today and guide its corporate evolution as it eventually integrates into a complex, global parent-company matrix down the road.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Hands-on Accounting Function Leadership : Direct, oversee, and personally execute workflows

for the corporate accounting function. Own full-cycle general ledger operations, AR/collections,

AP, payroll, and consolidated financial reporting across multiple manufacturing plants and

corporate locations.

Building Structure out of Ambiguity : Step into changing environments to audit legacy entries,

clean up balance sheets, and institutionalize rigorous standard operating procedures where

documentation might be light or outdated.

Cost & Inventory Accounting Precision : Drive extreme financial discipline on the production

floor. Directly oversee inventory valuations, establish standard costing architectures, and analyze

manufacturing variances (labor, burden, scrap, and material usage) alongside plant managers.

Financial Reporting & Global Compliance : Oversee the meticulous preparation and analysis of

accurate financial reports (income statements, balance sheets, cash flows). Ensure pristine

compliance with US GAAP, while preparing reporting workflows to scale seamlessly into

international IFRS standards.

Controls & Auditing Ownership : Formulate, implement, and test robust internal control

frameworks (SOX-ready). Act as the primary liaison and clear-cut owner for the annual external

audit process.

Strategic Financial Partnership : Collaborate closely with the CFO on rolling forecasting (e.g.,

6+6 and 9+3 models), cash flow/liquidity budgeting, and operational margin analyses to deliver

executive-ready insights on key business drivers.

Team Management & Mentorship : Lead, mentor, and actively cultivate a geographically

dispersed team of accounting professionals primarily centered in North Carolina. Provide visible,

proactive leadership to keep a remote team aligned on performance goals and strict close

timelines.

Systems Architecture Runway : Manage current day-to-day enterprise accounting applications

(e.g., Sage) and proactively build out clean data mappings to act as a key technical user for future large-scale ERP integrations (such as SAP) down the road.

Required Skills and Knowledge

Experience : 10+ years of progressive accounting experience, with a heavy emphasis as a

hands-on Controller, Assistant Controller, or strong Accounting Manager.

Industry Background : Strict requirement for deep roots in manufacturing, heavy industrials,

or field-service operations. Must demonstrate direct familiarity with complex revenue

recognition, including percentage-of-completion accounting.