Corporate Controller

Core Accounting and Financial Close

• Lead the enterprise-wide monthly close and establish a disciplined, standardized process designed to achieve an accurate five-business-day close.
• Take ownership of core accounting, including the general ledger, account reconciliations, accruals, intercompany activity, accounts receivable, accounts payable, bad debt, customer returns, and other balance sheet reserves.
• Assess the existing books across multiple systems and locations, identify gaps and inconsistencies, and develop a prioritized remediation plan.
• Improve the quality, consistency, and usefulness of financial statements, operating results, and management reporting.
• Establish clear accounting policies, close calendars, review standards, account ownership, and documentation across the organization.
• Partner with operations to explain accounting issues, translate findings into business implications, and improve the quality of source information and operational decision-making.

Manufacturing, Distribution, and Cost Accounting

• Ensure accurate accounting for inventory and manufacturing activity, including bills of material, direct costs, freight, import duties, taxes, overhead, and product margins.
• Evaluate current cost-capture processes and improve the accuracy of product costing and margin reporting across manufacturing, remanufacturing, and distribution operations.
• Develop consistent methodologies for reserves, including customer returns, core return privileges and balances, bad debt, inventory exposure, and other key estimates.
• Provide the analytical foundation for margin improvement, cost savings, and operational performance initiatives.
• Help define the future cost accounting capability and support the eventual recruitment or development of dedicated cost accounting resources.

Acquisitions, Integration, and Scalability

• Support acquisitions through diligence, purchase accounting, opening balance sheets, accounting integration, and post-close reporting.
• Drive greater standardization across the company’s eight accounting systems and create a practical roadmap toward a more integrated platform.
• Build accounting processes, policies, controls, and reporting that can support a growing business.
• Conduct or support monthly performance reviews with operating leaders and improve accountability for financial results.
• Support debt covenant reporting and provide accurate information for lenders, the sponsor, auditors, and other external stakeholders.

Controls, Audit, and Technical Accounting

• Strengthen the control environment and establish appropriate review, approval, reconciliation, and documentation standards.
• Lead the annual audit process, proactively resolve accounting issues, and reduce late adjustments.
• Apply strong GAAP and technical accounting judgment to acquisition accounting, revenue, inventory, reserves, and other complex matters.
• Create reliable consolidated reporting and ensure consistency in the application of accounting policies across entities and locations.

Organization and Leadership

• Assess the current accounting organization, clarify roles and reporting relationships, and built out an accounting function in Dallas, Tx.
• Recruit, develop, and lead a capable accounting team with clear accountability, high standards, and a hands-on leadership approach.
• Create a culture in which finance and accounting are responsive, analytical, operationally connected, and viewed as a resource to the business.
• Operate effectively across a geographically dispersed organization and lead change with urgency, transparency, and sound judgment.

The ideal candidate is a technically strong, analytically rigorous accounting leader who combines public accounting training with meaningful manufacturing operating-company experience.

Experience and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a related field; CPA strongly preferred.
• Public accounting foundation with a Big Four or respected regional firm.
• Strong knowledge of GAAP, financial reporting, audit, account reconciliations, monthly close, internal controls, and core accounting processes.
• Operating-company experience in manufacturing is required.
• Working knowledge of inventory, bills of material, cost accounting, freight, duties, import-related taxes, product margins, reserves, and high-volume distribution.
• Experience supporting acquisitions, purchase accounting, opening balance sheets, and post-close integration.
• Demonstrated success improving a fragmented or underdeveloped accounting function, accelerating the close, and strengthening financial reporting.
• Experience in a private equity-backed environment is beneficial but not required.
• Ability and willingness to work on-site in Dallas and travel to Washington during the initial transition period.

Leadership Profile

• Hands-on and detail-oriented, with the curiosity and persistence to diagnose issues and follow them through resolution.
• Highly analytical, with the ability to connect accounting accuracy to margins, cost performance, cash flow, and operating decisions.
• Confident communicator who can work effectively with senior management, operating teams, auditors, lenders, and the private equity sponsor.
• Pragmatic change leader who can establish priorities, create structure, and deliver visible progress in an imperfect environment.
• Low-ego, accountable, and team-oriented, with the judgment to balance urgency, accuracy, and sustainable process improvement.
• Motivated by the opportunity to build a foundation, scale a business, and contribute to value creation through a future ownership transition.