Contoller

Controller

Twin Valley Tire

Milbank, SD

About Twin Valley Tire

Twin Valley Tire is a trusted part of the Milbank, South Dakota, community. It now serves customers from six locations: Milbank, Sisseton, Webster, and Miller in South Dakota, and Wheaton and Benson in Minnesota.

The company carries tires and wheels for agricultural, commercial, passenger and light truck, trailer, lawn and garden, and ATV use, plus tracks for farm equipment. Brands include Alliance, BKT, Firestone, Goodyear, Michelin, Titan, and Trelleborg. On any given day the team might switch a sprayer from flotation tires to narrow row-crop tires, put new front tires on a combine, retread tires for a commercial fleet, or handle brakes and an alignment on a family car.

Service is the other side of the business. Twin Valley Tire repairs, rotates, balances, and studs tires in the shop and sends crews out to farms for tire, wheel, and track work. It also refinishes wheels, and its auto bays handle oil changes, batteries, alignments, brakes, A/C, and suspension.

The team’s stated priority is keeping customers safe on the road, with expert service, honest customer care, and fair prices. For a Controller, the breadth matters as much as the service: each product line carries its own pricing, freight, and vendor terms.

About the Opportunity

Twin Valley Tire is hiring a hands-on Controller to protect the company’s financial integrity and give ownership and operating leaders clear, timely financial information they can act on. The Controller reports to the Chief Operating Officer, leads the accounting team, and works closely with ownership and the leaders who run each location and business line.

Retail, commercial, agricultural, wholesale, and service each have their own pricing, margins, and costs. The Controller connects results to the decisions behind them, keeps accounting consistent across six locations, and raises issues early.

The search places particular weight on inventory. With a product range this wide, inventory valuation, freight, rebates, and vendor credits are where margin is most easily lost, and Twin Valley Tire wants a Controller who has owned that problem in a comparable business and fixed it.

Success means operating leaders trust the financial statements, understand performance by location and business line, and hear about cash, margin, or control concerns in time to act. Accounting runs the same way at every location, the team delivers on schedule, and the analysis leads to better operating decisions.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS

The key accountabilities for the position include, but are not limited to, the following:

Financial Reporting & Close

Deliver accurate, timely monthly and year-end reporting, clean reconciliations, and clear explanations of performance.

 

Controls, Compliance & Audit

Safeguard assets, maintain effective controls, and coordinate accurate, timely compliance and external CPA activities.

 

Inventory & Margin Integrity

Ensure inventory valuation, freight, rebates, vendor credits, and cost of goods accurately reflect operating economics; identify margin leakage early.

 

Cash Flow & Working Capital

Maintain dependable cash visibility and disciplined management of receivables, payables, collections, credit exposure, and banking.

 

Budgeting & Forecasting

Translate operating plans into realistic forecasts and actionable financial guidance.

 

Multi-Location Systems

Standardize processes, improve system use, and reduce manual work and dependence on individual employees.

 

Team & Business Partnership

Develop an accountable, cross-trained accounting team and build productive relationships with operating leaders.

 

REQUIREMENTS OF THE POSITION

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting


• 5+ years of progressive accounting experience


• CPA or other professional accounting certification preferred


• Ownership of the close and core accounting function in a multi-location, inventory-intensive operating business


• Tire and automotive service, equipment, distribution, wholesale, retail, or comparable backgrounds with complex inventory and location-level reporting


• A record of improving close reliability, resolving inventory discrepancies, strengthening collections, implementing controls, and developing accounting staff

Skills & Knowledge:

• Inventory and gross-margin expertise: valuation, freight, rebates, vendor credits, and cost of goods


• Strong working-capital management, including receivables, collections, payables, and credit exposure


• Practical process improvement across locations


• Explains financial issues clearly to leaders without a finance background


• Accuracy and integrity, paired with entrepreneurial spirit


• Responsive, challenges constructively, and raises risk early

THE SEARCH

Sagency, an executive search and leadership consulting firm, has been retained for this search. Sagency consultants will review qualified candidates and help the hiring team consider a final group. Candidate conversations and information are handled with discretion and confidentiality. Sagency and Twin Valley Tire are equal-opportunity employers.

If your experience, skills, and passion are a good match for the organization and this role, we would like to engage with you. Please read below for the first part of the application and selection process.

The initial steps of the application and selection process:

Step 1: Complete the online application and upload your resume.

• The application stays open until the position is filled.

Step 2: A Sagency Executive Search Consultant may schedule an initial phone call with qualified applicants.

Step 3: A Sagency Executive Search Consultant will schedule a 60-minute interview with select candidates.

Step 4: Candidates who are selected and choose to move on to interviews with the client will be asked to complete an online assessment.

Step 5: First-round interviews with Twin Valley Tire.

Thank you for your time and interest in this role.