Strategic Corporate Controller for Growth & ESOP Firms

Employee Owned Holdings, Inc. (EOH) is a family of 100% employee-owned companies that specialize in highly engineered solutions. EOHI provides centralized corporate services—including Accounting, HR, Marketing, Operations, and IT—supporting a growing group of operating companies.

We are hiring a Corporate Controller to provide strong leadership over accounting operations during a period of continued organic growth and strategic acquisitions. This role is ideal for a business-minded finance leader who excels at building teams, driving accountability, optimizing processes, and delivering high-quality service to internal and external stakeholders.

This role combines technical accounting ownership with operational leadership, with execution of transactional processes performed by a team of functional leaders. The Corporate Controller will report directly to the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and serve as a key partner to operational and executive leadership.

EOHI Companies:

Hydraquip, Inc. and GCC provide technical expertise and value-added solutions through their offering of hydraulic, pneumatic and automation products. Supreme Integrated Technology, Inc. (SIT) focuses on hydraulic, mechanical and structural design to deliver custom, turn-key systems.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Leadership & Accountability: Lead accounting and finance operations with a strong focus on ownership, accountability, and performance. Set clear expectations, metrics, and service standards across AR, AP, and accounting teams (e.g. DSO and DPO goals),
• People Management: Directly manage and develop AR and AP teams, ensuring timely billing, collections, vendor payments, and issue resolution. Coach leaders and team members to take ownership of outcomes and continuously improve performance.
• Operational Finance Oversight: Oversee day-to-day financial operations including billing, collections, payables, cash flow support, inventory processes - ensuring consistency, accuracy, and efficiency.
• Financial Close & Reporting: Own the monthly close process across all entities, ensuring timeliness, accuracy, and consistency. Establish clear close timelines, accountability, and continuous improvement in cycle time. Oversee preparation of internal financial reporting to support management decision-making. Additionally, own the accuracy and integrity of the balance sheet. Ensure all key accounts are reconciled timely and consistently, with particular focus on eliminating all variances between ledgers.
• GAAP Accounting & Technical Judgement: Maintain a strong working knowledge of U.S. GAAP and ensure appropriate application across the organization. Evaluate accounting issues and transactions, develop well-reasoned positions, and prepare clear, concise documentation and accounting memos to support conclusions with auditors. Apply practical judgment to balance technical accuracy with business realities.
• Business Partnership: Act as a finance partner/analyst to operations, sales, and leadership by translating financial data into insights that support better decision-making, profitability, and working capital management.
• Process Optimization & Efficiency: Own and continuously improve accounting and finance processes to reduce cycle times, eliminate rework, and scale effectively as the organization grows. Balance strong controls with practical, business-friendly execution.
• Systems & Technology Leadership: Drive effective use and optimization of ERP and financial systems. Experience with Epicor Kinetic and Epicor Prophet 21 is a strong plus. Stay current on modern finance tools and automation/ai opportunities.
• Manufacturing & Distribution Finance: Apply sound financial judgment within manufacturing and industrial distribution environments, including inventory management, margins, freight, and operational drivers. Solid working knowledge and GAAP treatment of percentage of completion accounting is important.
• Customer Service Excellence: Ensure finance teams deliver responsive, professional, and solutions-oriented service to both internal and external customers.
• Governance & Controls: Maintain appropriate internal controls, policies, and procedures to support accurate reporting, audit readiness, and consistency—without over-engineering or slowing the business.
• Acquisitions & Integration Support: Support accounting integration for new acquisitions, focusing on process alignment, system transitions, and continuity of operations.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with HR, IT, Operations, and shared services teams to align finance initiatives with broader business objectives.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance/Business.
• CPA license or MBA required.
• 5–10+ years of progressive experience in accounting and/or finance leadership roles.
• Public Accounting Experience (Audit) strongly preferred.
• Experience in manufacturing or engineered solutions environments strongly preferred.
• Experience in industrial distribution preferred.
• Experience supporting multi-entity organizations and growth through acquisitions preferred.
• Experience with ESOP companies a plus.

Desired Experience, Knowledge & Skills:

• Strong business and financial acumen with the ability to connect financial outcomes to operational decisions.
• Proven people leader with a track record of holding people and teams accountable and developing talent.
• Demonstrated success in process improvement, operational efficiency, and systems optimization.
• Solid understanding of US GAAP sufficient to oversee reporting and controls without being hands-on.
• Excellent communication, prioritization, and relationship-building skills.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment.

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, and 401(k) plans with company match. A unique benefit Employee Owned Holdings offers is participation in an employee stock ownership plan.

What is an ESOP?

ESOP is a special retirement program that allows employees to own stock in the company. When you join EOHI, you automatically begin investing in your future (without having to purchase shares). We are a high growth company committed to training our employee owners to develop their skills and advance in their careers.

• Studies also show that retirement account balances for ESOP companies are 2.5 times higher.
• ESOP companies grow 2.5 times faster than those companies without employee ownership.
• Research shows employee owned companies are superior in performance, employee benefits and employee morale because everyone is working towards a common goal.