Controller

The Controller - Accounting Operations, Inventory and Controls will be responsible for the reliability of the Company's underlying accounting processes, subledgers, reconciliations, and transactional accounting. This role will oversee the accounting activities supporting accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, inventory, cash, fixed assets, leases, prepaid expenses, accruals, and intercompany transactions. The successful candidate must be willing to work directly in the accounting records, investigate discrepancies, correct process failures, and establish repeatable, well-controlled procedures. This is a hands-on role and not solely a supervisory position.

Key Responsibilities

General Ledger and Close Support

• Maintain assigned general-ledger accounts and supporting schedules.

• Ensure subledgers reconcile to the general ledger each reporting period.

• Prepare and review account reconciliations using standardized Company templates.

• Investigate and resolve reconciling items, stale balances, unsupported amounts, duplicate entries, and classification errors.

• Prepare routine and non-routine journal entries with complete supporting documentation.

• Ensure transactions are recorded in the correct legal entity, account, department, location, and accounting period.

• Support the Lead Controller in completing the monthly, quarterly, and annual close.

Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Payroll Accounting

• Oversee accounts payable accounting, including vendor invoices, credits, payments, accruals, statement reconciliations, and purchase-related transactions.

• Monitor aged payables, unmatched receipts, outstanding checks, duplicate payments, and unapplied credits.

• Oversee accounts receivable accounting, billing support, cash application, customer deductions, credits, and account reconciliations.

• Resolve unapplied cash, short payments, disputed deductions, credit balances, and recurring billing issues.

• Support accounts-receivable aging analysis and allowance or reserve calculations.

• Oversee payroll accounting and reconcile payroll registers, tax liabilities, benefit deductions, and payroll-related general-ledger accounts.

• Maintain appropriate segregation of duties and supporting documentation across transactional accounting processes.

Inventory and Cost Accounting

• Own accounting processes supporting inventory, cost of goods sold, purchasing accruals, freight, inventory adjustments, and inventory reserves.

• Reconcile inventory subledgers and operating reports to the general ledger.

• Investigate inventory quantity, valuation, costing, and gross-margin discrepancies.

• Review inventory adjustments, write-offs, transfers, reserve calculations, and related journal entries.

• Support physical inventory counts and cycle-count procedures.

• Reconcile inventory held across Company facilities, third-party locations, and other relevant channels.

• Review purchase-price variances, freight allocations, landed costs, and other cost components.

• Coordinate with operations and information technology personnel to resolve inventory-system and data issues.

Cash, Fixed Assets, Leases and Intercompany Accounting

• Prepare and review bank reconciliations for all assigned Company bank accounts.

• Investigate outstanding checks, unidentified receipts, returned payments, bank fees, and other reconciling items.

• Maintain fixed-asset records, depreciation schedules, lease-accounting schedules, prepaid-expense schedules, and recurring-accrual support.

• Record and reconcile intercompany transactions among legal entities and resolve differences before consolidation.

• Maintain intercompany schedules and ensure charges are recorded consistently in both the originating and receiving entities.

• Provide complete intercompany support to the Lead Controller for consolidation and elimination entries.

Process Improvement, Controls and Team Leadership

• Evaluate accounting processes for control gaps, unnecessary manual work, duplication, and inconsistent practices.

• Document accounting workflows, responsibilities, approval points, system dependencies, and recurring procedures.

• Standardize accounting templates, reconciliations, schedules, journal-entry support, and review procedures.

• Identify opportunities for automation and improved use of ERP and accounting systems.

• Own execution and documentation of assigned process-level internal controls and immediately report control failures.

• Support remediation of audit observations and internal-control deficiencies.

• Supervise assigned accounting personnel, review work product, provide corrections and coaching, and establish backup coverage for critical processes.

• Escalate staffing, performance, system, control, or capacity issues to the Lead Controller and Chief Financial Officer.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or a closely related field.

• At least seven years of progressive full-cycle accounting experience.

• At least two years of accounting-management, supervisory, or formal work-review experience.

• Strong working knowledge of the general ledger and monthly close process.

• Demonstrated expertise in account reconciliations, root-cause analysis, and discrepancy resolution.

• Experience with accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll accounting, cash, fixed assets, prepaid expenses, accruals, and intercompany accounting.

• Meaningful inventory and cost-accounting experience.

• Experience supporting a multi-entity or multi-location business.

• Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP as applied to transactional and operational accounting.

• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and strong proficiency with ERP and accounting systems.

• Strong written and verbal English communication skills.

• Ability to prepare audit-quality accounting support and maintain complete process documentation.

• Ability to work independently, manage deadlines, and supervise accounting personnel in a remote environment.

• Ability to provide recurring work-hour overlap with U.S. Central Time, with expanded availability during close and reporting periods.

• Willingness to work onsite and on a fixed night shift.

Preferred Qualifications

• CPA, CA, ACCA, CMA, or comparable professional accounting designation.

• Experience in food distribution, foodservice, wholesale distribution, retail, e-commerce, logistics, or another inventory-intensive industry.

• Experience supporting a U.S. publicly traded company or working within a public-company control environment.

• Experience supporting external audits and preparing auditor-ready schedules and documentation.

• Experience improving accounting processes or implementing accounting-system enhancements.

• Experience with physical inventory, cycle counting, inventory reserves, freight accounting, purchase-price variances, and gross-margin analysis.

• Experience supervising an offshore or distributed accounting team

Why Join Us

✨ Competitive salary & benefits package

✨ Collaborative and supportive team culture

✨ Opportunities for professional growth

✨ Global exposure through partnerships with international clients

Apply Now and bring your real estate accounting expertise to a dynamic and growing team!