Southern Glazer's - Bolingbrook, IL
posted 3 months ago
As the Vice President, Controller at Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits, you will play a pivotal role in maintaining the organization's financial and accounting systems and controls. This position requires establishing comprehensive financial and accounting policies, procedures, controls, and reporting systems. You will be responsible for collecting, interpreting, and reporting financial data, minimizing bank balances, evaluating and making investments, and directing staff to ensure the financial health of the organization. Your leadership will be crucial in fostering an environment where continuous learning and growth are supported, and where every team member feels respected and heard. In this role, you will analyze financial reports, determine cash flow forecasts, and develop innovative financial strategies to achieve revenue goals. You will assess the financial performance of the division against the business's goals and plans, evaluate financial performance, and generate profit and loss statements. Identifying new market opportunities and developing plans for effective implementation will be key responsibilities, as will proposing several financial options to support business objectives. You will also develop forecasting models to ensure the achievement of revenue, gross profit, and depletion objectives, while identifying financial and competitive risks and developing appropriate action plans. Your additional responsibilities will include leading budget preparation processes and expense management initiatives, performing month- and quarter-end reconciliation and account closing processes, and preparing and distributing monthly financial statements and analytical reviews. You will reconcile assigned balance sheet accounts monthly to identify and resolve outstanding items, analyze designated balance sheet and expense accounts within deadlines, and complete quarterly corporate schedules while managing interim and annual external audit schedules. Furthermore, you will create monthly budget variance analyses and reconcile physical inventory and cycle counts, completing gross profit reconciliations as necessary. Responding to any audit comments or suggestions upon completion of the audit will also be part of your duties, along with performing other tasks as assigned.