Make a measurable and mission-critical impact.
Bring your unique talents and experience to a leading company in Industrial IoT (IIoT) solutions. Grow your passion into a rewarding profession by joining a dynamic and expanding organization. You’ll play a vital role that supports your success and helps drive safe, efficient, and reliable operations across industries worldwide. ANOVA offers opportunities that empower you to:
- Innovate with cutting-edge IIoT technology
- Be part of a global, mission-driven team
- Grow your skills through hands-on experience and development
- Make a measurable impact across industries worldwide
Join us on the Finance team as a Global Controller. Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”), this critical leadership position will oversee ANOVA’s Controllership/Accounting department including core functions such as general accounting, tax and treasury management, financial reporting in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (“GAAP”), internal controls, and audits. The Controller will also play an integral role in special projects such as M&A, financial process improvements, and financial system consolidations while developing and leading a global finance team. Start your journey with ANOVA today!
Job Duties and Responsibilities
General Accounting
- Oversee accounting operations (e.g., AR/collections, AP, inventory, cost accounting, fixed assets, leases, payroll, revenue recognition)
- Oversee treasury and cash application
- Oversee tax filings – federal, state, and international – and transfer pricing
- Manage all aspects of the general ledger including account reconciliations and variance identification and investigation
Financial Reporting & Analysis
- Prepare and consolidate timely and accurate monthly financial statements for domestic and foreign entities in compliance with GAAP and other accounting standards like ASC 606 and ASC 842
- Assist with budgeting and forecasting processes led by FP&A partners with a focus on balance sheet and cash flow forecasts and management
- Prepare management reports and analysis to help measure business performance against budgets/forecasts and operational effectiveness via KPIs
Internal Controls
- Establish and govern the global internal controls framework to ensure strict adherence to the internal controls checklist across subsidiaries, while leading the documentation, testing, and remediation of control deficiencies
- Administer and govern finance master data (e.g., chart of accounts/general ledger mappings), ERP roles/security, and other internal controls
Audit Oversight & Readiness
- Lead domestic financial audits and liaise with external auditors
- Oversee foreign financial audits led by international controller
Special Projects & M&A
- Perform and lead special projects (e.g., financial system migrations and improvements, financial process standardization and improvements) by driving results through Finance and cross-functional teams
- Support M&A activities including due diligence and quality of earnings, purchase accounting, and integration of acquisitions
Talent Management
- Mentor and develop a high-performing, collaborative team
What You’ll Need to Succeed:
Minimum Requirements -
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting required
- CPA required
- 10+ years of relevant experience including technical accounting, audit support, treasury management, financial controls, international entity oversight, etc.
- 5+ years of experience as a Controller and/or Assistant Controller
- High-level working knowledge and application of U.S. GAAP accounting
- Financial accounting systems experience
- Digital transformation experience including ERP migration or implementation
- Proven team leader with supervision and staff developing experience
- Exceptional relationship management and collaboration with Finance team and other organizational units
- Effective verbal and written communication across organizational units, various levels of management, and external customers and partners
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Detail-oriented with focus on financial data integrity
- Advanced PC skills (e.g., Excel, PowerPoint)
- Self-motivation and proficient project and time management
Preferred Qualifications -
- MBA or master’s degree in accounting considered a plus
- Epicor ERP/accounting system experience
- Exposure to SaaS and HaaS subscription-type models
- Mix of work experience in public accounting and private industry
- IoT and manufacturing industry experience including cost accounting
Physical Requirements -
- Ability to perform typical office tasks, including sitting or standing for extended periods, using a computer, communicating effectively, and occasionally lifting light items
ABOUT ANOVA
We are very proudly “one” Anova — built by integrating the best in IIoT technology and expertise. Anova monitors more than 1,250,000 assets across nearly 80 countries for over 2000 clients, from family businesses to the largest LPG, Industrial Gases, and chemicals companies in the world. Our scale is global. Our service is local. We partner directly with customers, taking a holistic approach and delivering tailored solutions that drive innovation and improvement and make our world safer, more efficient, and reliable.
We believe that rewarding work should reward you. As part of Anova, your work, integrity, and commitment are rewarded through competitive compensation and reward strategies, through sincere appreciation, and through opportunities for growth and advancement. We put people first by providing benefits that support your life and well-being, from health and finance to recognition and reward, and so much more — we've got you covered.
If this sounds like a fit for you, apply to join Anova in connecting the industrial world — for better.
For more information about how Anova is transforming the Industrial IOT industry, visit us at Anova.com.
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