Position Summary:
Seeking a dynamic accounting professional to lead our large scale highly complex electrical fabrication construction division based in Madison Wisconsin. The qualified candidate must have the verifiable experience and qualifications to run the A&F functions for a division with over 100 million dollars in annual sales.
The Division Controller is responsible for coordinating, administering, and overseeing the accounting functions, while providing financial leadership for a manufacturing – prefabrication division of a profitable billion-dollar construction contractor. This hands-on role will manage financial planning, costs, controls, and reporting, for this rapidly growing division. This Wisconsin based professional will work with the operating team to help systemize, strengthen, and streamline processes, in order to improve financial and operational performance. This person will also play a key role in the implementation of new IT systems including an ERP. The ideal candidate will be a leader with experience in managing an accounting and finance team, and working closely with manufacturing and operations management teams.This position will be located in Madison Wisconsin, reporting into headquarters in San Jose California.
Additional responsibilities include:
- Add value as a key financial business partner to division leadership, while managing a dynamic team
- In coordination with the project management team; analyze and report on efforts to control project costs of all material, labor, and subcontracting expenses, at an individual project level
- Support design and implementation of any system / ERP initiatives
- Partner with Legal / Purchasing /Operations in review of customer contracts, vendor and lease agreements
- Implement and maintain internal controls over client stored materials / equipment as well as vendor managed inventory
- Engage in performance management and participate in the overall job planning process, including continual forecasting
- Evaluate capital spending requests
- Investigate variances from original budgets and plans
- Development of operational accounting procedures and documentation of data flow
- Providing senior management with detailed reports specifying and comparing factors affecting pricing and profitability of products and services
- Build and maintain business relationships with internal and external partners, including Project Managers, Engineers, Quality Control, Logistics, EHS and other departments and customers.
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, business administration, or other business related field
- Broad based GAAP knowledge together with significant cost and project accounting, experience
- Minimum of 5 years in a manufacturing or construction cost accounting role, together with at least 8 years of accounting management experience to include large projects, product lines or capital equipment
- Strong organization and leadership skills required
- Highly motivated, energetic team player with the capability to effectively manage multiple projects/tasks with limited or minimal supervision
- Detail oriented with excellent analytical, written, and oral communications skills.
- Strong skills including MS Excel, at least one Cost / Manufacturing program, and a relevant ERP, (JD Edwards a plus)
- Outstanding interpersonal skills with the ability to interact with senior management as well as a multi-disciplined cross section of a geographically distributed corporate organization
At Cupertino Electric, we’re obsessed with helping our customers solve large, complex problems – from designing and building one of the first semiconductor chip plants in Silicon Valley to beating construction schedules everyone else would find impossible. Whatever the challenge, we’re up for it, and looking for passionate, driven people to deliver the power and possibilities for our customer’s wildest dreams. Cupertino Electric, Inc., is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Learn more at: www.cei.com.