Imagine when
You are a vital member of our growth-minded, industry-leading, innovative, brand-driven, global employee-owned company. You are challenged to grow, expected to challenge others, are part of something much bigger than yourself, and leave an indelible legacy through the people your life has impacted.
You have the opportunity to help lead our accounting operations, supporting our controller while providing functional oversight and support to the accounts receivable and accounts payable teams.
Your assignment
The assistant controller requires an ability to be both proactive and reactive to the detailed needs of the company. This position plays a critical role in supporting the controller in managing day-to-day accounting operations, with a particular emphasis on providing functional oversight and support to the accounts receivable and accounts payable teams.
The ideal candidate is a hands-on performer with strong analytical skills, a solid understanding of GAAP, and a commitment to continuous process improvement.
Essential duties:
- Assist in the preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements.
- Support general ledger maintenance, account reconciliations, and month-end close processes.
- Ensure compliance with internal policies and regulatory requirements (e.g., GAAP, tax filings).
- Assist in preparation and communications with external auditors as needed.
- Analyze and opine on monthly/quarterly/annual financial performance.
- Monitor AR aging and work with AR team to address aged or troubled accounts.
- Support and provide back-up for the cash application processes and ensure timely posting of customer payments.
- Support and provide back-up for the credit manager by maintaining customer credit policies and assessing creditworthiness of new customers.
- Partner with sales/operations to continuously evaluate and improve processes.
- Oversee AP processes to ensure timely and accurate processing of vendor invoices and payments.
- Support and provide back-up for the AP team in resolving invoice discrepancies, vendor inquiries, and payment issues.
- Partner with supply chain/sourcing in addressing the same.
- Review and approve payment runs in accordance with cash flow planning.
- Enhance and enforce accounting policies, procedures, and internal controls.
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency and accuracy within accounting workflows, as well as across departments.
- Assist in implementing and optimizing planning/financial reporting/ERP/accounting systems and tools.
- Explore new ways to leverage technology within finance and accounting.
Required skills:
- Proven success executing on employer initiatives.
- Ability to connect quickly with people.
- Highly effective written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to see what needs to be done and independent drive to do it; willingness to ‘reach up and reach out’.
- Strong understanding of business, products, systems, and people.
- Excellent analytical and organizational skills.
Success criteria:
- Maintain/improve timeliness and accuracy of vendor payments and discrepancy resolution.
- Maintain/improve timeliness and accuracy of customer payments and discrepancy resolution.
- Maintain/improve timeliness of month-end financial close.
- Deliver on execution of enhanced reporting functionality and other tech initiatives.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
- 5+ years of accounting experience with proven career advancement; preference for experience in public accounting, FP&A role, or assistant controller.
- Technological aptitude with strong Excel skills.
- Ability to manage deadlines while responding to the ever changing requests from the organization.
- Experience in the building materials industry and/or distribution is a plus.
- Familiarity with ERP and financial reporting systems a plus.
- Be an outstanding person and teammate, elevating those around you.
- Align with our purpose, 8 character traits, and cornerstones.
About us
We are an employee-owned company and a proud part of the American building materials industry for nearly 75 years. We have a storied history of innovation, which many say is in our DNA. We agree. From product to brand, to sourcing to customer-centric solutions, we constantly ask the “what, why and how” questions that many are afraid to ask.
Our core brands of CAMO, PRO-FIT, and STINGER are the “asked for brands” in their respective segments and can be found at the finest names in the LBM, Roofing, Home Center, Distribution and STAFDA channels of the building industry and more recently, through our E-Commerce presence.
Our brand users are the hardworking folks who build things with their hands, and just like us, are business owners. They build our homes, our decks, install our roofs, and depend on our brands to support them in delivering a job well done.
Our company's reason for existing
Whether supporting our customers, suppliers, employee-owners and their families or the communities in which we live and work, our purpose is simple; inspire whoever we engage with to help them become better. Better people, families, businesses, and ultimately leave better the communities in which we live. We get this is a moonshot reason for existing. Yet it is one we are committed to.
Our culture is characterized as
- Servant focused.
- Founded on Four Cornerstones, 8 character traits, and a simple operating philosophy of Serve • Better • Value • Fun.
- High standard, embraced by a dedicated team of employee-owners who enjoy the fruits of hard work while having a “bit of fun” along the way.
- Growth-minded, driving intentional investments in developing our people, our customers, and our communities.
- Innovative.
So, if this is an assignment, culture, brands, and industry you desire to explore further, contact us. Your new adventure awaits.
