Business Unit Controller

Legrand has an exciting opportunity for a Business Unit Controller to join the EWS Wiremold Team in West Hartford, CT.

• Drive and support executing day-to-day accounting team responsibilities, tasks, and project related efforts.
• Provide oversight and direction in the capital expenditure development and ROI including development of standard reports and projections related to Capex spend and depreciation projections.
• Provide oversight and direction in the Treasury area including reviews of weekly disbursement runs, wire payment releases, and monthly cash projection forecasts.
• Complete ownership of month end closing responsibilities.
• Coordinate monthly accruals, schedules and reporting, such as commission accruals, bad debt accruals, incentive/sales bonus accruals and rebate accruals.
• Review and approve monthly journal entries and analyze monthly balance sheet reconciliations.
• Ensure timeliness, accuracy and integrity of general ledger data.
• Prepare monthly financial statements in a four-day close environment.
• Perform balance sheet reviews and review/approve monthly account reconciliations.
• Present financial results to management regarding company performance.
• Manage and coordinate execution of financial audits and support a robust controls environment.
• Interact with internal/external audit teams and participate in issue remediation efforts.
• Partner with finance and business leaders to provide accounting guidance and financial insights.
• Work with staff and other departments to continually identify improvements and efficiencies.
• Document policies and procedures; serve as a change agent for ERP implementation and continuous improvement.
• Manage staff including training, development, goal setting, and performance evaluations.
• Lead and participate in projects as directed by the VP of Finance.

Education: 

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience. 

Experience:

• Typically requires 3+ years of managerial experience.
• Capable of resolving escalated issues requiring cross-functional coordination.

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities:

• Accounting Management
• Audit Management
• Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
• Corporate Budgeting
• Budgetary Controls
• Bloomberg Fixed Asset Software
• Other Systems: Concur, Dataworks, Esker, BPC