Controller Jobs

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Job Summary

The Controller is responsible for providing consistent leadership and oversight for the overall financial health and operations of the business ensuring compliance with all federal, state and local regulations.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities*:

• Assists leadership with important financial decisions.
• Follows safety policies and procedures
• Other duties as assigned
• Interface with other internal departments in the resolution of retail business issues as required
• Continually searches for ways to improve results and effectiveness.
• Ensures timely reviews and approvals of all balance sheet accounts, including but not limited to monthly bank and general ledger account reconciliations.
• Formulates and implements corrective actions as needed.
• Creates and manage annual budgets.
• Establishes and continually audit internal financial controls including purchasing, cash handling, disbursements, inventory, and payroll.
• Maintains compliance with all federal and state regulations.
• Leads and manages Accounting and Finance team ensuring ongoing fiscal health of the business.
• Ensures timely preparation of monthly financial statements, management of receivables, payables cash balances and timely deposits of all funds.
• Investigates any discrepancies and ensures that timely and accurate corrections are made.
• Provides ongoing superviison, training, coaching and feedback to improve performance and meet objectives of all assigned areas to ensure optimal performance.
• Conducts frequent performance evaluations to designated team.
• Addresses issues of concern related to performance providing constructive and ongoing feedback and consequences if performance remains below standards.
• Provides regular performance updates and recommendation to senior management.
• Responsible for recommending process/operational improvement.
• Responsible for effective hiring of all new team members.
• Directs and/or prepares all financial reports meeting all due dates and deadlines.
• Manages the month end close process.
• Ensures that all direct reports comply with required safety standards and ensure that team members are safety conscious at all times.
• Duties may vary by location.
• Assisting assigned team and management with various duties as requested
• Provides leadership to designated teams through effective objective setting, delegation, and communication based on direction from senior management.
• Prepares financial documents such as financial forecasts, P & L, monthly budgets per department and for business as a whole as well as month end and inventory reports.
• Effectively manages and communicates cash flow related issues.

Minimum Requirements

• Must be able to communicate in English effectively, both verbally and in writing
• Excellent computer competency is required, including a minimum of 3-year experience Microsoft Excel, Word, and Outlook with exceptional experience in spreadsheet management.
• 2-year college degree with an Accounting / Finance concentration and a minimum of 4 years of related experience.
• Ability to work overtime with little notice; weekends hours may occasionally be required

Preferred Qualifications

• 4- year college degree with an Accounting / Finance concentration and a minimum of 2 years related experience

Additional Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Safety mindset and acceptance of a safety culture
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail and the ability to multi-task
• Willingness and ability to work collaboratively with all levels of the organization
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Willingness to learn and be a part of a team
• Able to work in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to build positive relationships with customers, both internal and external
• Positive attitude and a team player
• Customer service mindset
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

Working Conditions

• Open office environment
• Fast-paced environment

Physical Requirements

• Must be able to adhere to long periods of standing, walking or sitting
• Must be able to lift/move up to 20 pounds frequently
• Must be able to use arms and hands to reach overhead, signal, grab, hold, lift, turn, push and pull objects and tools
• Ability to hear, understand and distinguish speech and/or other sounds to operate phones or other office equipment safely.
• Ability to enter text or data into a computer by means of a traditional keyboard or 10-key numeric keypad
• Ability to express or exchange ideas by means of the spoken word to impart oral information to others
• With natural or corrected vision, able to see and focus for close, distance, peripheral vision with normal depth perception
• Frequently performs tasks requiring bending at the waist, kneeling or crouching

NRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol free workplace. To the extent permitted by law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, employees are subject to periodic random drug testing, and post-accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing. EOE AA M/F/Protected Veteran Status/Disability

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Level, Title and/or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicant's experience or skills.

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