Controller

## Description **Team Structure (India-Based Remote Team and Onsite Support)** The Controller leads a small finance team that includes: - AP Analyst (India – Remote): manages vendor communication, invoice entry, 2/3-way matching, tariff accounting, and reconciliations. - AR Analyst (India – Remote): manages customer communication, collections, dispute resolution, cash applications, and reconciliations. - GL Specialist (India – Remote, Part-Time): bank reconciliations, GL review, monthly close entries, payroll/benefits accounting, and financial statement prep. - AR/AP Analyst (India – Remote): invoice distribution, customer cash application, credit card expense accounting, sales/use tax data compilation, freight accounting. - Department Secretary (Onsite): onsite bills, deposits, vendor checks, and document management. The Controller ensures coordination, accountability, and disciplined delivery across all roles. **Key Responsibilities** **Month-End Close Leadership (Primary Accountability)** - Own and drive the full month-end close calendar, ensuring timely, accurate, and well-documented results. - Review and approve reconciliations and key journal entries (accruals, reserves, payroll/benefits, tariffs, warranty, freight, etc.). - Perform complex reconciliations or entries directly when needed. - Conduct analytical review of monthly financial results and prepare variance explanations and insights for the Owners. - Ensure accuracy and completeness of balance sheet and P&L, with strong supporting documentation. **Oversight of AP, AR, and GL Operations** - Direct workflow, priorities, and process discipline across AP, AR, and GL. - Ensure strong matching and invoice accuracy, timely collection efforts, dispute resolution, cash application controls, and reliable reconciliations. - Maintain an internal control structure appropriate for a small but distributed team. - Review and validate payment runs, vendor changes, and cash disbursements. **ERP Ownership — Infor LN** - Serve as the finance owner of Infor LN, responsible for reporting accuracy, transaction integrity, and data discipline. - Develop, maintain, and improve standard and ad hoc reports within LN to meet management needs. - Strengthen master data, coding structures, and process consistency across the remote finance team. - Drive practical finance process improvements that fit a lean organization. **Cash Flow, Treasury & Working Capital Management** - Lead weekly and long-range cash forecasting. - Drive AR collection discipline and AP payment control. - Review inventory valuation impacts on cash and working capital. - Maintain strong banking controls (wires, checks, approvals, user access). **Inventory Accounting, SMO/Obsolescence & Cost Visibility** ***(****Accounting oversight only — does not manage operational cycle count governance)* - Oversee inventory valuation and financial control in partnership with Operations. - Ensure cutoff integrity and financial accuracy for receipts, issues, adjustments, and returns. - Lead slow-moving and obsolete (SMO) inventory analyses with periodic reporting and reserve recommendations. - Ensure SMO and other inventory reserve methodologies are documented, consistent, and supported by analysis. - Partner with Supply Chain/Operations to explain inventory trends, aging, and cost impacts. **Warranty Accounting & Monitoring** - Own warranty accounting and reserve methodology. - Reconcile and track warranty claims, returns, and costs. - Analyze trends and recommend reserve adjustments based on historical and current performance. - Coordinate with Service/Operations to identify product/service trends affecting quality costs. **Revenue Recognition (Standard)** - Ensure revenue is recognized accurately under standard revenue recognition practices (no milestone accounting). - Oversee invoicing accuracy, credit memos, and customer adjustments that affect revenue. - Ensure shipping/invoicing cutoffs and reconciliations are complete and timely. *…