Assistant Controller

5 years exp

**Roles & Responsibilities**

Analyze and communicate the financial results of the company providing insights to risks and opportunities in meeting corporate objectives and profitability.

**Functional Contribution (Contribution Matrix)**:

- Serves as a Subject Matter Expert
- Manages day to day operations of Finance functions
- Interprets policies and changes to policy
- Applies experience and expertise to reach solutions
- Analyze trends and make recommendations to add value.
- Assess and address compliance risk
- Understands business operations and the impact on all levels of the Enterprise. (Global Value Stream (VS), Business Unit (BU), Big Watlow (W).
- Proactively influences, challenges and monitors around the Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA) cycle
- Facilitates, coaches, and mentors others
- Solves complex problems
- Determines scope, plans, and implementation timeframes of assigned projects
- Enforces internal controls and policies
- Safeguards assets
- Influences the financial aspects of the business
- Makes sound decisions based on evaluation of available information and various scenarios for areas of support, e.g. VS, functional area, BU
- Establishes and ensures adherence to business plans
- Applies organizational metrics and correlates the relevance to business success
- Assess and maintain a strong internal control environment through policies and practices.
- Coordinates cross functional / location collaboration as needed.
- Manages internal and external two-way communications to promote the best interest of all parties
- Develops strong relationships and provides effective communication, prioritization, and alignment
- Fosters collaboration
- Effectively challenges
- Gains buy in from other team members
- Identifies team member development needs and provides career coaching and planning assistance
- Demonstrates the Watlow Way (WW) Leader Behaviors
- Teaches and improves the Watlow Business System (WBS)

**Skills, Abilities and Mastery (Responsibility Matrix)**:
Services:

- Analyze and make recommendations for planning unit profitability including improvement in productivity, cost reduction and operating asset management.
- Ensures data integrity of the planning unit.

Delivery:

- Participate in strategic planning, forecasting, improving and measuring performance. Help ensure that the effective linkage of strategies, tactics, metrics and goals exist and are clearly understood by the team and reflected in the visual operating systems.
- Provide financial support in value stream management including but not limited to: weekly box score reporting, value stream costing, sales and margin analysis and operational/profitability analysis.
- Support their WBS maturity progression, including participating in daily, weekly and monthly meetings and gemba walks as a part of the team.
- Actively participate in and contribute to the Sales, Operations, and Financial Planning (SOFP).
- Support lean transformation through lean accounting tools and techniques.
- Perform month-end closing activities for the planning unit.
- Assist with the year-end financial audit.
- Represent Controller in his/her absence as required.
- Provide guidance to Business Analysts as required.

Business Partner:

- Backup Controller in his/her absence as required.
- Provide guidance to Business Analysts as required.
- Collaborate with other functions around the improvement of true north. An example includes supply chain to analyze inventory levels and implement changes to continually reduce Inventory Days of Supply.

Center of Expertise (COE)

Develops strategies, programs and policies with regard to:

- Tax
- Credit and Collections
- Treasury
- Travel
- Business Operations
- Accounting
- International Finance
- Shared Services

**Education, Experience and Certification Requirements**:

- Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience (5-8 years)
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA) / Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA) certification preferred
- Project management experience preferred
- Value Stream Management (VSM) /Lean Accounting preferred
- Leadership experience

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