Finance Department Manager / Corporate Controller

Position: Finance Department Manager / Corporate Controller.
Location: Green Bay, WI.
Job Type: Full-time.

Position Summary:
- The Finance Department Manager will lead a team of Staff and Senior Accountants while overseeing financial reporting, month-end and year-end close, audits, financial analysis, and KPI reporting.
- This role partners with business leaders to improve profitability, strengthen financial controls, streamline processes, and support strategic decision-making.

Key Responsibilities:
- Lead, coach, and develop Staff and Senior Accountants.
- Oversee month-end and year-end closing processes and financial statement preparation.
- Review journal entries, accruals, balance sheet reconciliations, and supporting schedules.
- Coordinate internal and external audits and manage audit documentation.
- Develop KPI dashboards and executive reports covering sales, margins, labor, and overhead.
- Perform financial analysis to identify business risks, opportunities, and performance improvements.
- Partner with business leaders on profitability, revenue, expense, pricing, and margin analysis.
- Improve financial processes, internal controls, reporting accuracy, and operational efficiency.
- Support standardization and automation of financial reporting across business segments.
- Travel occasionally, with overnight travel of up to 5%.

Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance.
- At least 5 years of progressive accounting or finance experience.
- At least 3 years of experience leading or managing employees.
- Strong experience with financial reporting, month-end close, and year-end close.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including PivotTables, lookups, complex formulas, and financial modeling.
- Strong analytical, communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Manufacturing accounting or finance experience.
- Experience with multi-entity and/or foreign currency reporting.
- Experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), budgeting, forecasting, profitability analysis, and margin analysis.
- Experience developing KPI dashboards and executive-level reports.
- Familiarity with Microsoft Dynamics 365, Management Reporter, or similar ERP and financial reporting systems.
- Experience with Power Query, Power Pivot, or financial data extraction and analysis tools.

Location: Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States

Skills required for this job:

• Accounting
• Budget
• Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
• Finance
• Financial modeling
• Financial planning and analysis (FP&A)
• Financial reporting
• Forecasting
• KPI Reporting
• Manufacturing finance
• Microsoft Excel
• Month End Close
• People management
• Power Pivot
• Power Query
• Profitability analysis
• Year-end closing