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Job Summary
Lignetics, Inc. offers clean, renewable solutions. We have 30 years of experience innovating eco-friendly essentials for everyday life. Lignetics manufactures a variety of consumer brands in several different categories including wood pellets for home heating, BBQ pellets for grilling, wood pellets and shavings for animal bedding, and a wood fiber-based cat litter. Each of our products have unique features and benefits but are all linked with a wonderful recycled, renewable, sustainable, and carbon neutral story. We turn recycled sawdust into value-add, branded consumer products.
Job Title: Regional Controller, Central

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 7+ years of progressive accounting experience
• BS in Accounting or related degree
• Multi-entity, manufacturing (or like field) industry experience required
• Advanced Excel, large ERP experience – Sage 300 preferred
• Excellent communication skills, motivated, driven, able to meet deadlines, genuine desire to mentor and see team succeed

• Lead development of budget and forecast for regional plants
• Prepare or oversee bill of material (“BOM”) development for region
• Prepare or oversee analysis of cost absorption into inventory throughout the year and recommend adjustments as necessary working directly with Controller and CFO
• Represent accounting team in monthly inventory close process for region, which includes working with operations staff to understand nature of variances and what corrective actions can be taken before providing approval for processing
• Work directly with plant staff to ensure timely follow through on corrective actions identified from monthly close to ensure accurate transaction processing within Sage whether through modification of BOM’s, coordinating training of operations staff responsible for transaction processing, development of new processes to detect any potential errors more timely and other actions as necessary
• Be the liaison between the accounting and finance team and plants to assist with interpreting financial results and the impact of journal entries posted by the accounting team. Examples of duties include providing training to Plant Managers, proactively communicating the impact of accrual accounting to assist with forecasting, etc.
• Provide plant personnel with interpretation of corporate accounting policies on plant-specific matters (i.e. capex versus plant cost)
• Provide financial analyses as needed to support pricing decisions, contract negotiations, bill of material development and capital investments, including what-if financial and sensitivity analyses, particularly with specific categories and detailed analysis of costs
• Partner with Manufacturing Directors and procurement staff for financial analysis of specific process shifts (e.g. what is KD worth relative to green material)
• Prepare more complex journal entries and reconciliations as part of the corporate monthly close
• Review senior and staff accountant journal entries and reconciliations prepared as part of the corporate monthly close
• Serve as mentor to more junior staff
• Become subject matter expert in various accounting matters to support corporate accounting and finance group with internal controls and financial reporting
• Other duties as assigned