Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

The Controller is responsible for overseeing all aspects of a company's financial operations, including day-to-day accounting tasks like managing accounts payable and receivable, payroll processing, financial reporting, and ensuring compliance with regulations, while providing financial insights to support business decision-making, all within a smaller company structure where they may handle a wider range of responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Accounting Operations:
  1. Manage accounts payable and receivable, including processing invoices and collections.

• Process payroll processing with outside payroll processing company
• Maintain accurate financial records and ledgers.
• Prepare bank reconciliations and cash flow analysis.
• Prepare the monthly sales tax return
• Manage the company’s banking activities and relationships with banking representatives
• Work closely with the company’s outside accounting firm including preparation of year end information needed for tax return and financial reporting
• Financial Reporting:
  • Generate monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements.
  • Analyze financial data to identify trends and potential issues.
  • Prepare reports for management and key stakeholders
  • Prepare reports that require financial information for the bank, insurance companies and other entities requiring reporting information

• Basic Human Resources

1. Handle employee benefits including coordination of employee benefits enrollment, answering employees’ benefits questions, maintain employee files, and retirement plan activities.
2. Employee reporting requirements including insurance and unemployment audits

• Other Roles and Responsibilities

1. First point of contact for risk management processes
2. Work closely with outside information technology support

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
• CPA certification preferred, but not always required for small businesses
• Proven experience in accounting and financial management, preferably in a small business environment
• Strong analytical skills and ability to interpret financial data
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate with various stakeholders
• Proficiency in Quickbooks accounting software and Microsoft Office Suite
• Strong computer skills including the ability to work through various web-based applications for the company’s various outside relationships such as vendors

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