What are the responsibilities and job description for the Financial Controller position at Shaw-Almex Industries Limited?
Company Profile:
Industry leader and innovator in design and manufacture of a full range of vulcanizers and presses for splicing all types of belting and stationary presses for fabrication of flat and profile conveyor belting. Over a dozen corporate facilities and a network of exclusive distributors are strategically located on six continents to provide a comprehensive sales and service support system to clients in over 120 countries over 5 continents.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities:
Payroll
- Track and record all vacation and leave requests for US employees including hourly and salary employees located in Michigan, Virginia, Florida, Colorado, and Georgia. Maintain accurate tracking of vacation leave days to be paid and days available.
- Use a third-party payroll provider to process bi-weekly payroll and year-end requirements for US salary staff and posts journal entries to ensure records match payroll provider records.
Operations & Banking
- Prepare, monitor, and update a rolling 13-week cash flow for US operations. Oversee daily cash flow for US operations by overseeing staff on collections, processing supplier payments and monitoring bank balances.
- Use the ERP system, Epicor, to record transactions, and journal entries, using the banking system and communicate payment to vendors once complete. Review and process wire payments as required.
- Review reconciliation of bank accounts and credit card statements by discussing transactions with the team, comparing bank statements to internal records, and checking coding.
- Track state and federal sales taxes, import duties and filing government remittances.
- Work with Group Auditors and Tax Advisors to complete year-end audits, and submit Research and Development tax claims, and corporate tax returns.
- Work for Legal Counsel to prepare annual resolutions and corporate filings.
- Input monthly journal entries, prepare, and maintain loan and lease schedules.
Reporting
- Use the Global ERP System, Epicor, to prepare monthly financial statements within headquarter group reporting timelines. Post transactions and work with other departments to ensure inventory counts and costing are accurate.
- Reconcile all intercompany transactions and their foreign exchange balances each month.
General
- Support the negotiation team for contract renewals, by providing costing and benefit data.
- Manage finance team including salary recommendations, performance reviews and daily direction.
This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive, and from time-to-time other related duties may be required of the role to meet the ongoing needs of the organization.
Educational Requirements/ Special Certifications:
- University Degree in Finance, Accounting or equivalent.
- CPA designation is an asset.
Specific Experience:
- Minimum 3 to 5 years’ experience working with an ERP system (SAP, Epicor, Dynamics), MS Office.
- Strong development skills and analytics in Microsoft Excel and Power BI an asset.
- Proven experience in finance management.
- Good communication skills.
- Strong leadership qualities and excellent interpersonal skills.
- Sound knowledge of accounting fundamentals.
- Auditing experience and Compliance oriented.
- 3-5 years in a supervisory capacity.
- Fluent in English a must and fluent in Spanish an asset
Why You Want This Position
Almex Group is a company that gives back to its community and cares deeply about its employees. We are family oriented and corporately driven.
Who You Are
You are extremely intelligent and confident, and able to work in a fast paced and dynamic environment that requires you to interact with all levels of Almex employees. You are professional and personable and can relate well with people. You will have a sense of humor and approach that will help you thrive in this challenging and growing organization which involves movie studios, the food industry but primarily the mining industry.
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Disability insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Physical setting:
- Office
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
Education:
- Bachelor's (Preferred)
Experience:
- Supervising: 3 years (Preferred)
- ERP systems: 3 years (Preferred)
License/Certification:
- CPA (Preferred)
Work Location: In person
Salary : $80,500 - $102,000