Division Controller

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Act as a strategic business partner to the Business unit, supporting operational, commercial, and growth initiatives.


• Translate financial and operational data into insight that drives informed decision-making, performance improvement, and long-term value creation.


• Lead financial planning, forecasting, scenario modeling, and strategic analysis aligned with enterprise objectives.


• Support pricing, capital investment, and margin expansion strategies.


• Lead financial governance, standardization and performance alignment across multiple manufacturing locations.


• Establish consistent accounting policies, internal controls, and reporting practices across business unit.


• Drive visibility and accountability through standardized KPIs and financial performance metrics.


• Partner with corporate finance to ensure enterprise alignment and transparency.


• Optimize shared services for Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Credit, Collections, and Cash Application.


• Drive continuous improvement, automation, and workflow optimization to enhance scalability and efficiency.


• Establish service-level expectations and monitor cycle times, working capital impact, and service quality.


• Strengthen credit and collections processes to improve cash flow and customer partnership.


• Lead standard cost design, maintenance, and governance across the business unit.


• Analyze cost drivers, manufacturing variances, and operational performance to identify improvement opportunities.


• Partner with operations to improve labor productivity, material efficiency, and throughput.


• Support lean manufacturing, continuous improvement, and cost reduction initiatives.


• Evaluate product, customer, and channel profitability.


• Provide financial insight related to capacity utilization, operational constraints, and capital efficiency.


• Direct the preparation of budgets, forecasts, and financial plans.


• Ensure timely, accurate, and GAAP compliant financial reporting.


• Lead weekly soft close, and month-end; year-end close activities across the division.


• Provide variance analysis and forward-looking insights to leadership.


• Develop dashboards and reporting tools to enable real-time decision-making.


• Lead working capital strategy including receivables, payables, and inventory.


• Improve cash flow forecasting and liquidity management.


• Partner with supply chain and operations to optimize inventory levels and turns.


• Monitor and improve DPO and Day Working Capital.


• Lead financial system optimization and adoption of ERP and digital tools.


• Partner with IT and functional leaders to ensure strong financial data integrity and system integration.


• Support implementation and continuous improvement of ERP and related analytics platforms.


• Promote data-driven decision-making and automation.


• Ensure strong internal controls and financial governance aligned with corporate and regulatory requirements.


• Lead risk identification and mitigation related to financial and operations processes.


• Ensure compliance with GAAP, ISO, and regulatory standards.


• Maintain audit readiness and transparency.


• Evaluate capital investments and ensure alignment with business strategy and return expectations.


• Support capital allocation decisions and post-investment performance tracking.


• Support financial due diligence, integration, and alignment for future acquisitions.


• Establish scalable processes that support enterprise growth.