Controller, Business Unit

The Controller, Business Unit holds a more centralized, high-level view, overseeing BT North-America's entire organization's financial operations and reporting, overseeing the financial integrity of the entire organization across all Regions and Business Lines, ensuring alignment with Global Strategy and serving as a key advisor to the CFO and Executive Leadership Team, acting as an extension of our corporate stakeholders. Corporate Controllers are crucial in bridging the gap between a company's financial operations and the interests of its various stakeholders. They work and collaborate with Business Partners and Accounting delivering the foundation for effective governance and management. They deploy stakeholder interests by ensuring that the company's financial information is transparent, accurate, and aligned with the company's strategic direction.

What You'll Do (Key Responsibilities)

• Financial Deployment: Responsible to develop enterprise-wide financial deployment, budgets, and forecasts. By leading the Budgeting and Current Forecast process, controllers help translate strategic goals into measurable financial targets. This aligns the company's operational activities with the interests of stakeholders, who are focused on growth and profitability.

• Consolidated Financial Reporting: Responsible for leading the consolidation and internal financial reporting operations globally, including monthly, quarterly, and year-end results, ensuring accurate IFRS based consolidated financial statements for internal and external sources.

• Policy and Governance: Establish enterprise-wide financial policies and procedures in accordance to Central Directives and NA Region best practices.

• Strategic Decision and Support: Provide financial insights and internal support for corporate initiatives (e.g., M&A, Post-Merger-Integration, Capital investments).

• Risk Management: Identifying and mitigating major threats to the company's long-term health by consolidating decentralized risk reviews.

• Leadership and Oversight: Corporate Controllers focus on enterprise-wide finance and reporting topics, partnering and driving improvements and working directly with Executive Leadership team, Business Partners and Accounting Delivery.

• Other duties as assigned to support all financial aspects of the company.

What You'll Bring (Qualifications)

Required Qualifications:

• Experience: preferred 8 years - min 5 years - of progressive experience in finance or accounting, ideally with multiple years in a leadership role (e.g., HQ Corporate Controller, Business Line Controller, Director of Accounting, Director of FP&A).

• Industry Knowledge: Proven experience in large scale PoC systems integration, construction, or project design-build based business is essential from a controlling standpoint.

• Strategic vision with operational expertise: to align financial strategies and deployment with global business objectives. Strategic thinking to steer strategic planning, manage risks effectively, and foster collaboration with regional teams and internal-external stakeholders (e.g., Executive leadership team, investors, regulators).

• Communication and Presentation Skills: Ability to summarize complex financial analyses and findings clearly and concisely to senior executives and board members.

• Change Management: Proven experience driving enterprise-wide reporting and financial reporting process standardization and technology adoption.

• Strong business acumen: Strong business and financial awareness and the ability to apply these to a portfolio of projects to maximize cash flow, profits, and stakeholder satisfaction.

• Problem-Solving: Ability to partner together with Business Partners and Accounting Delivery, capable of resolving complex accounting issues and improving global financial processes.

• Leadership: Strong leadership and team-building skills with a focus on mentoring and developing staff.

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance; CPA certification and/or MBA highly preferred.

• Technical Skills: Advanced proficiency with an ERP system(s), (e.g., Microsoft Dynamics MD365 preferred, SAP, Coins) Power BI, and Microsoft Office including advanced Excel and PowerPoint.

Preferred Qualifications:

• HQ Experience: Experience with headquarter governance, budgets and allocation methodologies, matrixed businesses, multi-entity and multi-currency accounting.

• PMI Experience: Experience with post-merger acquisitions and transformation projects.

• M&A Experience: Experience with the financial aspects of mergers and acquisitions.

Compensation : $108,000 to $162,000 DOE

Company Info:

Paladin Technologies is a premier North American complex systems integrator for building technology solutions, including IP security, alarms & monitoring, audio visual, low-voltage infrastructure, and networking. As a leader in the design, deployment, optimization, management, and maintenance of communication and digital networks, Paladin can meet the needs of clients on a national scale, while providing local support. Our team is the best in the industry, with manufacturer trained technicians, PMP-certified project managers, CTS- and RCDD-certified design engineers, coordinators, and administrative resources.

Paladin has offices coast to coast across the United States and Canada, and nearly 1,700 talented and committed professionals dedicated to custom-crafting and installing technology solutions for clients requiring Integrated Security, Network Infrastructure, Audio Visual, Fiber Optics/OSP, Structured Cabling, and more. We are always at the forefront of the changing technology landscape, and through continued training, complex client projects, and company support, we provide our colleagues with exciting challenges and a rewarding career as Paladin continues to grow.

This company considers candidates regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status. Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability & veterans, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need accommodation for any part of the application process, please send an email or call 1-855-296-3199 to speak with Human Resources and let us know the nature of your request.

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