Controller

Busch Vacuum Solutions is a leading manufacturer of vacuum pumps, compressors, and blowers for use in industries such as semiconductor manufacturing, food processing, metallurgy, biomedical, and material handling.

Busch Vacuum Solutions has a direct-hire opportunity for a Controller in Virginia Beach, Virginia.  

The Controller position is responsible for overseeing the organization's financial affairs and ensuring compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, and accounting policies related to a for-profit organization. The Controller provides Management with the financial information needed to make intelligent, well-informed business decisions.

If you are a highly motivated individual with strong analytical and problem-solving skills and proven leadership experience in an accounting function and are looking to join an amazing team, apply now!

Job Responsibilities

• Manages planning and compliance with all federal, state, and local corporate, payroll, and other applicable requirements.
• Analyzes company financial statements each month, including a compara­tive balance sheet, income statement, departmental expense schedules, gross profits, and additional statements in accordance with the company guidelines.
• Coordinates and directs the budget preparation and financial forecasts to include historical data and current year actual figures. Prepares the budget for those accounts requiring accounting input.
• Assembles and analyzes data for Management and Owners, such as manufacturing meeting work papers and statistical reports.
• Review, analyze, and provide financial inputs for manufacturing variances, product cost savings, freight cost, and overall manufacturing efficiencies.
• Provides other departments with related information necessary to carry out their responsibilities and allows for proper financial inventory accountability, assuring those departmental procedures do not conflict with the needs of other departments.
• Oversees treasury management offerings from financial institutions for Busch companies, including software, online access, foreign/domestic trades, etc.
• Creates custom financial reports using third-party report writers and assists other users with the same report writers (ex. ECQ, BMIS).
• Analyzes results of standard cost roll-ups, productions, and sales-related transactions.
• Participates, organizes, or leads cost-focused activities and cost-reduction projects at the company level.
• Signs company checks up to a specified dollar amount.
• Coordinates activities with external auditors.
• Promotes safety awareness and provides a safe work environment.
• Must comply with all safety policies, practices, and procedures while reporting all unsafe activities and concerns to the General Manager, safety officer, or human resources.

Required Experience

• SAP ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning): Required
• 7+ years of any combination of public or private accounting experience in a manufacturing company: Required
• 3+ years of FP&A experience: Required
• 5+ years of Supervisory experience: Preferred
• Bachelor's Degree (four-year college or technical school) Required
• Field of Study: Business Administration or Accounting: Required
• Advanced Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint): Required
• CPA (Certified Public Accountant), CMA (Certified Management Accountant: Preferred)
• Valid Drivers’s license (must be maintained throughout employment that meets Busch insurance standards): Required

Personal Qualifications

• Work with a high level of initiative, be self-motivated, and possess professional maturity
• Be detail, goal, and safety oriented
• Must be organized and maintain a clean and orderly workspace
• Must possess a positive attitude, be dependable, and be trustworthy
• Work independently or as a team, as necessary, to fulfill department and company goals and objectives
• Possess strong oral and written communication skills in English

Job Requirements

• Ability and willingness to pass a 10-panel drug screen, 7-year criminal history check
• Most felonies are disqualifiers, and misdemeanors are considered on a case-by-case basis
• Must be willing and able to utilize all required PPE
• Ability and willingness to travel (up to 10%) domestically and internationally

Physical Requirements

• Constant reaching outward, lifting/carrying/pushing, pulling up to 10lbs
• Frequent standing, walking, sitting, lifting/carrying/pushing, pulling up to 25lbs
• Occasional climbing, squatting, kneeling, reaching above the shoulder, and lifting/carrying/pushing pulling up to 50lbs
• All applicants must be able to hear and see audible and visual alarms and must be able to wear all required PPE, such as safety shoes, electrical hazards, safety glasses, and hearing protection.

Busch Vacuum Solutions offers an attractive benefits package, which includes medical, dental, vision, EAP, tuition reimbursement, Legal Plan, 401K, PTO, and more! 

Opportunity for growth and advancement via on-the-job training, paid training/certifications, tuition reimbursement, and opportunities for advancement within the company.  Busch values promoting from within!

Work Environment

• Moderately controlled manufacturing environment, moderate noise levels, fumes, and airborne particles, while working near moving mechanical parts.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must perform each essential function satisfactorily with or without reasonable accommodations.

Why work for Busch Vacuum Solutions?

As diverse and boundless as the world of vacuum is, so are the jobs and tasks at Busch. From machinist to manager, from mechanical engineering to marketing, from Maulburg to Montreal. We welcome all talents, regardless of education, age, gender, or nationality; worldwide.