Our growing medium sized Manufacturing client is looking for a Controller in the North Central Suburbs of Chicago.
*Bilingual in Spanish Preferred* Some Travel to Plants International & Domestic*
Duties:
- Direct and coordinate division financial planning and budget management functions.
- Recommend benchmarks for measuring the financial and operating performance of each plant.
- Monitor and analyze monthly operating results against budget.
- Direct and coordinate debt financing and debt service payments.
- Oversee daily operations of the accounting departments in all 3 plants.
- Coordinate the preparation of the annual tax returns.
- Oversee and ensure the accurate maintenance of the ledgers, ensuring that all transactions are properly recorded and reconciled.
- Perform reviews and adjustments to ensure the ledger aligns with operational needs and financial reporting requirements.
- Lead efforts to assess and assure all 3 plants have strong accounting teams, optimizing structure and processes to improve efficiency and productivity.
- Perform balance sheet reconciliations, investigating discrepancies and ensuring accounts are properly balanced and explained for all 3 plants.
- Help implement a process to record transactions by department and compare costs incurred to budget and performance analysis of profit centers
- Review and recordation of journal entries required to reflect the monthly activities.
- Review monthly accounting close process including analytical review of the monthly operating results to ensure accurate accounting records are maintained.
- Preparation of monthly financial statements and related footnotes for US and Mexico plants, including consolidated corporate rollup report.
- Preparation of the year-to-date cash flow.
- Perform cash projections to effectively manage cash balances and maximize the return on any excess cash balances.
- Coordinate the preparation of financial outlooks and financial forecasts for plants.
- Prepare financial analysis for contract negotiations and product investment decisions
- Supervise the accumulations of permitted reimbursements from customers through the accounts payable process and bill these reimbursements to the customer’s monthly.
- Design, establish, and maintain an organizational structure and staffing to effectively accomplish the department goals and objectives in both US and Mexico finance departments.
140K-150K, DOE, License, Education, etc...
Brilliant Staffing, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
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