Interim Controller

Job Title: Interim Controller

Location: Long Island, NY (Hauppauge)

Schedule: Hybrid – 3 days per week onsite

Engagement Type: Interim/Consulting

Pay Rate: $100-$115/hour

Position Overview:

Our client, a growing private equity-backed manufacturing organization, is seeking an experienced Interim Controller to provide hands-on leadership across its accounting and financial reporting function.

This individual will oversee a multi-entity accounting environment and play a critical role in strengthening cost accounting, standard costing, gross-margin visibility, consolidations, and overall financial controls. The ideal candidate will bring deep manufacturing accounting experience and be comfortable operating in a lean, hands-on environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the accounting and month-end close process across multiple entities and manufacturing locations
• Oversee consolidations and ensure accurate, timely financial reporting
• Strengthen the company's cost accounting and standard costing processes
• Improve visibility into gross margin by SKU, customer, product, and other key dimensions
• Oversee inventory accounting, COGS, purchase price variances, production variances, labor absorption, and material costs
• Partner with operations to improve manufacturing cost and profitability reporting
• Manage cash flow, cash forecasting, and working capital
• Review existing accounting processes, controls, and master data and identify areas for improvement
• Provide hands-on leadership and support to the accounting team
• Support the financial integration and reporting needs of a growing, multi-site organization

Qualifications

• Significant Controller-level accounting experience
• Strong manufacturing industry experience required
• Deep cost accounting and standard costing expertise required
• Strong knowledge of COGS, inventory accounting, manufacturing variances, and gross-margin analysis
• Experience managing multi-entity accounting and consolidations
• Strong month-end close and financial reporting background
• Cash management and working-capital experience
• Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central experience strongly preferred
• Experience within a private equity-backed or middle-market organization preferred
• Multi-site manufacturing and acquisition-related experience highly desirable
• CPA preferred
• Ability to work onsite on Long Island 3 days per week

By submitting to this position, you are agreeing to be included in our talent pool for future hiring for similarly qualified positions.

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By submitting to this position, you agree that you will be giving Vaco by Highspring the exclusive right to present your as a candidate for the foregoing employment opportunity. Additionally, you agree to be included in our talent pool for future hiring for similarly qualified positions. You further agree that you have represented information about yourself accurately and have not affirmatively misrepresented your qualifications. Lastly, you agree to maintain as confidential, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any information you learn from Vaco by Highspring about the position and you will limit disclosure of information about the position only to the extent necessary to perform any obligations in furtherance of your application. In exchange, Vaco by Highspring agrees to exercise reasonable efforts to represent you through all solicitation, job screening and resume dispersal.

For residents of Ontario, Canada only: to the extent the position for employment is not with Highspring or not otherwise noted as vacant above, candidate should be informed that this role is to replace a presently employed person at Vaco by Highspring's client.

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Additionally, submissions to this position are subject to the use of AI to perform preliminary candidate screenings, focused on ensuring minimum job requirements noted in the position are satisfied. More details about Vaco by Highspring’s use of AI can be found here (https://www.highspring.com/ai-use-notices/). Further assessment of candidates beyond this initial phase will be conducted by recruiters and hiring managers. Vaco by Highspring does not know and cannot opine on if its client’s use of AI products in hiring.

Pay Transparency Notice

Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:

· the individual’s skill sets, experience and training;

· licensure and certification requirements;

· office location and other geographic considerations; and

· other business and organizational needs.

With that said, as required by local law, Vaco by Highspring believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses and/or participation in medical, dental, and vision benefits as well as the company’s retirement plan (or similar retirement benefits).