Controller - gorjana

About This Role:

The financial controller provides strategic leadership and oversight over general ledger accounting to include monthly closings, accruals, AP, AR, fixed assets, trend reports/analysis, and payroll. This is a remote position requiring a base in Southern California.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Oversight of Accounting Team/Department:

• Continue to develop and evolve the accounting department and team with an infrastructure that will support growth and aligns departmental goals with corporate goals.
• Drive automation, efficiency, and scalability initiatives to meet growth requirements
• Ensure that the department understands and complies with quality standards and requirements as documented
• Leverage cross functional capabilities to ensure that financial objectives can be met while supporting organizational growth
• Supervise all day-to-day accounting operations
• General ledger
• AP daily functions
• AR daily functions
• Inventory
• Fixed Assets
• Bank Reconciliations
• Payroll
• Debt payments

Closing Practices:

• Lead monthly close of company financial statements; Ensure that the close process is performed in a timely, efficient, and accurate manner
• Manage the Company's monthly closing process in a timely and efficient manner.

Financial Statements & Analysis:

• Protect company assets by ensuring all accounting policies and procedures are well-defined and enforced
• Produce financial statements in accordance with US GAAP
• Effectively prepare consolidated level financial reporting that provides insights to Company's management
• Monitor debt levels and compliance
• Annual corporate report

• Collaborate with Operations Leadership to optimize supply planning and forecast to help drive more efficiencies and cost savings
• Capital investments
• Contract negotiations
• Improvements for cost structure

Tracking/Reporting:

• Provide internal reporting to support incentive plan goals
• Provide internal tracking of budget to department leaders

Credit Card Management:

• Oversee the company's credit card policies and practices
• Ensure the timely execution of credit card and expense reporting

Sales Tax:

• Payments
• Compliance
• Reporting

Audits:

• Coordinate work relating to external audits in the periodic review of the company's financial records and ensure implementation of any agreed upon recommendations, resulting from audit findings
• Inventory 
• Financial

COMPETENCIES:

• Recruit and Develop Talent (leadership)
• Adaptable and Manage Change 
• Organized and Time Management 
• Motivated and Results Driven
• Coachable and Receive Feedback 
• Values and Culture Fit
• Passionate about our brand

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting (or equivalent)
• CPA or MBA designation, preferred
• Must be based in Southern California
• Must be flexible to collaborate in person in Laguna Beach, CA
• Must be flexible to collaborate in person and remotely 
• Must be over the age of 18 
• Ability to be flexible to the needs of the business
• Ability to work full time hours, with open availability 

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a Team Member to successfully perform the essential functions for this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.

• Must be over the age of 18 
• Ability to bend, squat, twist and reach
• Ability to be flexible to the needs of the business
• Ability to work full time hours, with open availability 

The job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the Team Member(s) of this position. Team Members will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments. 

All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the Team Member(s) will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. 

This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an at will relationship.

Gorjana is an equal opportunity employer, drug-free workplace, and complies with ADA regulations as applicable.