Division Controller

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Job Summary:

The Division Controller provides accounting, financial support and leadership for the industrial watertube business. This includes understanding and managing the general ledger, accounting issues, costing, external audit process, internal reporting, detail analysis and presentation of financial data, preparation and recording of journal entries, preparation and review of monthly account reconciliations, and other similar activities or ad hoc requests. This individual must be an experienced leader and manager as well as a strong accountant who is detail oriented and has solid analytical skills and abilities.

Location: Lincoln, Nebraska (relocation assistance provided, if needed)

Jobs Supervised: Senior Cost Accountant, Accounting Specialist

Basic Function:

Provides accounting and financial support and leadership for the industrial watertube business locations in Lincoln, Nebraska and Maschouche, Quebec (Canada). This includes understanding and managing the general ledger, percentage of completion (POC) accounting issues, costing, external audit process, internal reporting, detail analysis and presentation of financial data, preparation and recording of journal entries, preparation and review of monthly account reconciliations, and other similar activities or ad hoc requests. This individual must be an experienced leader and manager as well as a strong accountant who is detail oriented and has solid analytical skills and abilities.

Essential Duties:

• Provide leadership with their team and the industrial watertube business. This includes the ability to understand the motives and objectives of the business and the communication/interpersonal skills to effectively carry out responsibilities to develop and motivate others.
• Manage team to provide proper level of customer service to the rest of the organization.
• Mentor, coach and develop accounting team to ensure success of the accounting department team and individuals.
• Take ownership of the general ledger and ensure accuracy, understanding, consistency with Company policy, consistency of application and compliance with US GAAP.
• Establish and build effective and productive relationships with operations, finance and other departments.
• Perform month, quarter and year end close processes, meeting deadlines. Book journal entries and provide appropriate detail level review and analysis. Develop and maintain tracking tools and accounting checklists. Ensure appropriate reporting is correct and accurate.
• Serve as an advisor to the Senior VP, Industrial Watertube Boiler & HRSG Systems and/or VP Finance, or CFO regarding financial matters and strategies relevant to the business.
• Perform monthly financial variance analysis, including research, documentation and communication of results.
• Interface with external auditors to ensure audit requests are provided timely, quarterly and annual statements are accurate and timely and proposed adjustments are minimalized.
• Analyze financial performance and make recommendations for future policies and actions.
• Ensure duties and company projects are accomplished in efficient and cost effective manners.
• Effectively manage team. This includes, but is not limited to, execution of meaningful performance reviews, providing appropriate direction and coaching to ensure positive development of subordinates as well as ensuring subordinates adhere to and follow the Company’s policies and procedures.
• Other costing, analysis and projects as assign by members of management.
• Other duties as directed.

Education Required: Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting is required; CPA or CMA a plus

Experience Required: 8+ years of progressive accounting experience, plant controller experience in manufacturing a plus. Previous experience with percentage of completion (POC) accounting and job order cost system & ERP system preferred.

Personal Competencies Include:

• Proficient in MS Word, Excel, IFS and other software programs.
• Flexibility to work on special projects and unexpected events while completing routine tasks on a timely basis.
• Demonstrated capability to interface and maintain effective relationships with all departments and employees in a team-oriented environment.
• Demonstrated ability to find better and more efficient ways of doing things.
• Responsive to operational and department needs.
• Flexible/adaptive to change.
• Demonstrated proficiency and understanding of supported balance sheet reconciliations.
• Creative problem solver.
• Ability to synthesize complex or diverse information.
• Inspires and motivates others to perform well, accepts feedback from others.
• Well organized, dependable, punctual, strong work ethic.
• Strong analytical skill set - ability to analyze problem and develop meaningful solutions.

Internal Contacts: Regular (16-35%) Make contacts that involve controversy where practices and procedures and/or methods do not provide precise direction as to desired outcomes.

External Contacts: Regular (16-35%) Make contacts that involve controversy where practices and procedures and/or methods do not provide precise direction as to desired outcomes.

Physical Skill and Effort: Work requires a few simple, but rapid hand operations. Work requires simple, easy muscular movements.

Benefits of Being a Cleaver-Brooks Employee:

We offer a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, maternity support program, discounted virtual physician visits, voluntary medical benefits (Critical Illness, Hospital Care, and Accidental Injury), FSA, HSA, life insurance, short term and long term disability, cash matching 401(k) plan, employee assistance program (EAP), pet insurance, employee discount program, generous vacation and 11 paid holidays.

Who is Cleaver-Brooks

Cleaver-Brooks is the market leader in providing fully integrated boiler and burner systems. We lead the boiler/burner industry due to our unmatched distribution network’s ability to deliver the knowledge, service, training and support that are essential to long-term performance. Our customers will tell you that we’re the only equipment provider that manufactures boilers, burners, controls, and a full array of ancillary and aftermarket products. They’ll also mention that our unique single-source capability means that we can deliver fully integrated boiler room solutions that reduce overall costs and optimize space. It is our focus on products that deliver the most efficient, reliable, safe and environmentally sustainable solutions that differentiate us in the marketplace. Cleaver-Brooks continues an 90+ year legacy of providing the customers we serve with extraordinary products designed to deliver unsurpassed performance through the power of commitment.

This description indicates the general nature of the tasks and responsibilities required of position given this classification. It is not intended as a complete list of specific duties and responsibilities. Nor is it intended to limit or modify the right of management to assign, direct, and control the specific duties of individuals performing this function. The Company reserves the right to change, modify, amend, add to or delete from any section of this document as it deems, in its judgment, to be proper. This description supersedes any previous descriptions for this position