Controller, Business Unit

For more than 120 years, KASCO has been the industry leader in providing quality products, parts, repairs, and service to the meat processing and retail institutional food industries.  Our cutting edge products include band saw blades, meat grinder plates and knives, and cutlery.  We also offer a vast range of butcher supplies, seasonings, replacement parts, and repair services to grocers, restaurants, and meat, seafood, deli and bakery departments.

 

SUMMARY: The Controller is an integral part of the FASS management team, serving as a true business partner and financial counsel to the CFO and functional positions. The Controller is responsible for all accounting activities for the North America sites (US, Canada, Mexico) and oversight of Kasco Europe accounting activities. This role provides financial decision support on a wide scope of operational and strategic matters impacting the achievement of the Business’s objectives. An integral part of the finance team, this position will collaborate with the larger finance team in providing solutions to accomplish multiple financial related tasks.

 

 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following:

The Controller will proactively:

 

• Ensure accurate and timely submission of monthly, quarterly, and yearly financials into Steel Partners. Provide insight into the product margins and variances for the CFO.

• Ensure account analyses and sub-ledgers such as prepaids, accruals, reserves, bank reconciliations, A/P and A/R aged trial balances, cost files, and perpetual inventory records are current and support the general ledger balances and financial statements.

• Maintain the financial integrity of the organization with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and adequate financial controls that are established and maintained in accordance with Sarbanes-Oxley and Corporate policies.

• Lead the interactions with internal and external audit.

• Automate and deploy KPI reporting and develop action plans to improve profitability.
• Help the organization become highly data centric with easy to access real time information.
• Mentor and grow accounting staff. Ensure there are backfills and separation of duties for the key accounting functions.
• Educate non-finance members on accounting and finance matters that will assist in better business decisions.
• Document improvement opportunities, creating guidelines and directives; identify potential improvement based on best practices and knowledge of internal/external business challenges.
• Other Duties as needed or required including special projects/analysis as requested by Kasco Management.

 

 

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Directly manages Staff Accountant, Accounts Payable & Accounting Clerks. Fulfills managerial responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring recommendations, training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

 

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

 

Knowledge, Skill, and Abilities:

• Must be a “hands on” leader who demonstrates a willingness to dig into the details as needed to determine root cause and countermeasures.
• Superior collaboration and communication skills, conflict management capabilities and strong executive presence/composure
• Possesses a high sense of urgency.
• Driven by very high expectations and delivers results, not “activity.”
• A balance of humility and high confidence.
• Collaborative and supportive of both team and outside the department.
• Targets breakthrough performance, not simply incremental gain.
• Thinks expansively and believes in achieving the unachievable.
• Is highly autonomous and self-directed.