Assistant Controller

Job #: 160240 Title: Assistant Controller Location: Ridgeway, VA Salary Range: $85,000-$100,000 annual salary Position: ACCOUNTANT Description:
AmeriStaff Employment and Staffing Solutions is seeking an Assistant Controller in Ridgeway, VA . This position will support the company's accounting, financial, and administrative operations in a manufacturing environment while helping ensure accurate financial reporting, strong internal controls, and meaningful operational financial analysis.

• $85,000-$100,000 annual salary

• Enter and maintain accurate general ledger transactions, prepare routine journal entries, and reconcile bank and assigned balance-sheet accounts.
• Maintain supporting schedules, organized accounting files, and documentation while researching and resolving accounting discrepancies.
• Coordinate monthly, quarterly, and year-end close processes, including journal entries, reconciliations, accruals, and prepaid expenses.
• Ensure financial statements and management reports are complete, accurate, and delivered on a timely basis.
• Analyze financial results, gross margin, operating expenses, working capital, inventory turns, and other key financial metrics.
• Assist with annual financial statement audits, tax-related requirements, and management-requested financial analyses.
• Oversee accounting for raw materials, work-in-process, finished goods, inventory, and manufacturing variances.
• Monitor and analyze material, labor, overhead, production costs, product costing, and standard costing processes.
• Reconcile inventory subledgers to the general ledger, investigate discrepancies, and support physical inventory and cycle counts.
• Help management understand product margins, profitability, production variances, and manufacturing cost drivers.
• Oversee accounts receivable activities, including invoicing, cash application, aging, collections, customer credit exposure, and bad-debt reserves.
• Oversee accounts payable processes, including coding, approvals, payment controls, vendor issues, cash requirements, and cash forecasting.
• Develop, implement, and maintain effective accounting policies, procedures, internal controls, segregation of duties, and approval controls.
• Identify opportunities to improve accounting processes, automation, reporting, efficiency, and ERP/accounting system functionality.

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• Minimum of five (5) years of progressive accounting experience.
• Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP.
• Experience with month-end close and financial statement preparation.
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills and experience with ERP/accounting systems.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently while partnering effectively with Operations and other departments.
• High level of attention to detail and accuracy.
• Hands-on, analytical, detail-oriented, and process-improvement-minded approach.

• Manufacturing accounting experience.
• Experience with inventory and cost accounting, including product costing and production variances.
• Experience with gross-margin analysis.
• Experience in a privately held or middle-market manufacturing company.
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