Controller - Garfield Refining LLC

The Opportunity

We are seeking a skilled Controller to lead our accounting and finance functions. This position reports to the Chief Operating Officer and involves regular collaboration with senior management. This is a great opportunity for someone with strong accounting/finance fundamentals looking to be involved in business strategy and leadership.

About the Company

Garfield Refining provides award-winning precious metal refining solutions to the dental, jeweler, manufacturing, death-care, and pawnbroker industries. We believe that recycling is essential, and work hard to provide best in class service to our clients around the world. We pride ourselves on driving industry leading practices, serving generations of customers, and doing our part to keep precious metal out of landfills. Beyond that, we are a family business that values our culture and strives to balance profitability with sustainability to ensure that we will be in business for another century.

Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day accounting processes, ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting.
• Perform/manage corporate accounting functions, including preparing and maintaining month end financials and closing, journal entries and reconciliations, and input and support documents for operating statements and general ledger balances.
• Prepare and analyze monthly financial statements, including the P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow and review results with leadership.
• Prepare schedules and analysis required for compliance activities including external audits and quarterly reviews, annual state and local tax packages, and internal audits.
• Optimize the company's accounting policies and procedures.
• Support financial planning and analysis process, including developing forecasts and budgets.
• Help frame the company's future by developing forward-looking, predictive models and financial analyses to provide insight into the organization's business operations and plans.
• Identify and communicate potential accounting issues or internal control weaknesses and recommend possible corrective actions.
• Support special projects as needed to meet the evolving needs of the business

Skills/Competencies

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance or Accounting (CPA or MBA is a plus).
• Broad knowledge of accounting, financial, and business principles.
• 5+ years of experience, preferably in manufacturing or financial sectors.
• High level of competency working in Excel and creating/delivering financial models and PowerPoint presentations.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally with operations and senior management
• Detail-oriented and driven to action.
• Desire to improve department's design and implement new systems to reduce manual effort and improve efficiencies.