Why This Is a Great Opportunity

• Step into a high-impact finance leadership role with direct visibility to the CFO and executive team.
• Help build and scale the finance function during an exciting growth chapter.
• Lead accounting operations, FP&A, reporting, controls, and process improvement across a multi-site business.
• Gain meaningful exposure to private equity, M&A, integrations, lender reporting, and value creation work.
• Join a company that is investing in technology, automation, AI, and better systems to make finance more strategic.
• Lead and develop an accounting team while creating stronger processes, clearer reporting, and better business insight.
• Competitive bonus opportunity available.

Location: This is a hybrid role based in Burton, Michigan, with on-site presence needed to partner closely with leadership, accounting, operations, and branch teams.

Note: Candidates must have 5+ years of progressive finance and accounting experience, including senior accounting leadership. A bachelor’s degree in Accounting is required. Experience in a private equity backed, multi-site, manufacturing, distribution, or industrial services environment is strongly preferred.

About Us

Confidential Employer. We are a long-established industrial distribution company with a strong reputation for service, reliability, and operational excellence. Our team supports manufacturers, OEMs, and industrial partners through customized supply programs, inventory solutions, sourcing support, and hands-on customer service. As we continue to grow, we are strengthening our finance function to support smarter decisions, scalable processes, and continued expansion.

Job Description

• Lead the day-to-day accounting function and oversee the accounting team.
• Own the month-end close process, balance sheet integrity, reconciliations, and financial statement quality.
• Serve as the finance quality control point before financials are finalized with the CFO.
• Maintain and improve internal controls appropriate for a growing, private equity backed business.
• Manage day-to-day cash management, short-term liquidity forecasting, working capital visibility, and lender reporting.
• Drive budgeting, rolling forecasts, variance analysis, KPI reporting, and recurring performance reporting.
• Build clear, useful reporting for branch leaders, operations, sourcing, executive leadership, and the board.
• Identify and lead automation opportunities across close tasks, reconciliations, reporting, and recurring analysis.
• Use finance technology, BI tools, data warehouse resources, automation, and AI to reduce manual work and improve decision-making.
• Support M&A due diligence, quality of earnings coordination, opening balance sheet work, purchase accounting, and integration workstreams.
• Help standardize acquired entities into the company’s accounting, close, and reporting processes.
• Partner with branch managers, sourcing, IT, and operations to translate financial results into practical business insight.
• Raise financial literacy across the organization through clear narratives, useful metrics, and strong business partnership.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive finance and accounting experience.
• Senior accounting leadership experience required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting required.
• MBA strongly preferred.
• Strong knowledge of US GAAP, close processes, balance sheet discipline, internal controls, and lender reporting.
• Real FP&A experience, including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and KPI reporting.
• Experience leading, developing, delegating to, and holding accounting teams accountable.
• Experience in private equity backed, multi-site, growth-oriented, manufacturing, distribution, or industrial services environments strongly preferred.
• M&A, purchase accounting, opening balance sheet, and integration experience strongly preferred.
• Epicor Prophet 21 and Power BI experience strongly preferred.
• Comfortable using automation, AI, BI tools, and finance systems to improve workflows.
• Able to operate at both a strategic and hands-on execution level.

Why You Will Love Working Here

This is a rare opportunity for a Controller who wants more than routine accounting ownership. You will have a trusted seat next to the CFO, real authority to improve the finance function, exposure to M&A and private equity backed growth, and the ability to build scalable systems the right way. You will be joining a company with a long-standing reputation, a practical and team-oriented culture, and a leadership group that values accountability, innovation, and real business partnership.

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