Controller

THE COMPANY
Our client, a well-established wholesale food organization known for maintaining the highest quality of products for their customers by using the latest technology and traditional techniques making them unique in every way through their quality of ingredients, free of chemicals and preservatives, while presenting freshly made products delivered each day. Skillful leader of fresh food products, serving high end restaurants, Major hotels, well-known established catering companies and more, with over 20 yrs. Of success delivering quality service with exceptional quality products.

THE POSITION
This well-established organization is seeking to hire a highly analytical, adaptable, and solution-oriented CONTROLLER. The ideal candidate is a strategic, creative, and resourceful problem solver with an innate ability to design and implement solutions driving growth and profitability, and able to manage a team of 5.

The Controller will be responsible for:

• Management of line of credit balances and banking covenants monthly and quarterly.
• Performing detailed review to ensure accuracy in financial documents, expenditures, and investments.
• Bill and maintain all accounts to ensure that billing and payments are current.
• General ledger management.
• Develop and implement budget plans and process (formulation and execution)
  • identify goals, revenue projections, target profit margin, budget variances, etc.)
• Providing executive level financial statements with metrics and guidance.
• Preparing consolidated financial statements.
• Lead the overall year-end services as requested by the outside CPA firm in their preparation of the annual reviewed financial statements and tax returns.
• Ensure financial statement are prepared in accordance with GAAP.
• Audit accounting data and identify errors.
• Prepare semi-annual performance evaluations of the accounting team.
• Review all work performed by the department staff including receivables, payables, invoicing, cash receipts, refunds, collections, client statements, bank reconciliations, W2s, and 1099s.
• Serve as a liaison to bank representatives, and all outside vendors.
• Conduct bank reconciliations and banking activities.
• Will be main contact for vendors. Pay vendors by ACH, Check, Credit Cards.
• Review vendor statements and submit reconciliation reports.
• Creation of Expense Reports & Submit reconciliation reports.
• Journalizing all bank, credit card, and loan activity.
• Reconciliation of cash, credit, and loan accounts. Payroll Processing.

THE CANDIDATE

• CPA – Required
• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or related field (required)
• 4+ years in Accounting
• SAP (preferred) / Paycom (preferred)