ATL Technology designs and manufactures the device connectors that save people’s lives, safeguards their safety, and improves their individual fitness and wellness.  From OEM medical device manufacturing, to wearable health fitness instrumentation, to automobile manufacturing safety, ATL Technology engineers and manufacturers single-use devices and interconnect solutions that make a difference.  We are engineering experts with over 20 years of experience in custom interconnect and single-use devices in the medical, industrial, and consumer markets. We work closely with our clients to design and manufacture unique solutions. ATL is a vertically integrated company, with manufacturing locations in the US, Costa Rica, and China. Our global footprint allows us the ability to meet our customer’s specifications effectively and efficiently. We are passionate about our people, customers, and technology and we are seeking outstanding individuals to join us that share our vision.

Controller

ATL Technology has an immediate opening for an outstanding financial Controller with potential to grow into the CFO role (in 2-3 years) at our Springville, Utah headquarters location.  The Controller reports to the CFO, and is responsible for day-to-day management of financial operations of the company.  The Controller directly manages four individuals (e.g,, Utah based staff accountant and accounting clerk, an Asia based controller (who oversees staff of 10), and a Costa Rica based finance manager (who supervises a staff of 10). It is anticipated that the primary work of the Controller will be performed at the headquarters location in Springville, UT and remotely through video conferences; however periodic travel is expected. English is the company operating language; and knowledge of Mandarin Chinese and/or Spanish is a plus.  Here now is a little about the “who” we seek to find for this position.

Who you are

Under the direction of the Chief Financial Officer, the Controller oversees and manages all day-to-day accounting and financial needs of the company including but not limited to; preparation of automated individual and departmental progress dashboards, month end close, internal & external financial reporting, budget forecasting, taxation, and participation in M&A due diligence and integration. The controller is responsible day-to-day management of the accounting department, including supervising accounting personnel, enforcing company internal controls, leading all financial audit engagements and communicating with internal and external customers. The Controller is an active participant of the global management team.

Your drivers and mode of working:

You know you are the right candidate for this position if…

1. You have a very practical approach to tasks and are efficient with both time and resources.  You enjoy accomplishing tasks and feel a great satisfaction for a job well done.
2. You have curiosity and like to understand how things work, and it is as important to you as reporting accurate data; when you understand the mechanics of the business, you are more valuable as an advisor to the Board. 
3. You are logical and enjoy accurately identifying and resolving problems using logic and a systematic data-driven problem-solving approach. 
4. You are not an excuse maker, but rather delight in taking ownership of your work responsibilities and decisions. You are perceptive and enjoying identifying the causes; effects, impact and scope of potential financial risks and opportunities, and can provide decisive and accurate solutions. 
5. You are detailed oriented, a planner and organizer, and are prepared for foreseeable events; you are versatile and have a demonstrated capacity to multi-task and juggle many demands.  You act deliberately and decisively with “calm urgency,” not frenetic chaos.
6. You demonstrate self-confidence and a willingness to take initiative and responsibility for the completion of great work.  You are willing to take risks to make improvements; note, ATL is an environment where errors of omission are more serious than errors of commission. You function effectively with responsibility and achieve results even in adverse circumstances. 
7. You enjoy managing your own time efficiently, and can work in teams of others to achieve goals in an efficient and timely manner. You are adaptable and have the ability to roll with the tides as work effort and initiatives seem to ebb and flow in the manufacturing business.
8. You have a high goal orientation and demonstrated accountability for results; you are persistent in overcoming obstacles to meet objectives. At a deep personal level, you are competitive and you like to win; and your drive to win produces regular results that improve your performance and lifestyle.
9. You speak plainly, and have sufficient humility to work effectively with others. You are one who takes initiative without waiting to be given directions; you have the ability to maintain composure amidst a crisis.  You strive for continuous improvement in you circle of influence. 
10. You have a peaceable demeanor, operate with transparency, honesty, candor, and speak with plainness, and can work with effectively with people from many cultures and backgrounds.  You are not easily disturbed by others, and have the ability to see possibilities in all situations. You make places and situations better.

Your Mission

In compliance with corporate policies and procedures, the Controller shall:

• Supervise all activities of the accounting groups located across our Springville, Utah headquarters location, Asia, and Costa Rica, and other sites as required
• Lead a detailed annual department budgeting and quarterly reforecasting process for ATL Technology. Report to CFO the Corporate headcount, operating, and capital expenditures
• Be balance sheet focused, and be able to related financial results to business outcomes.
• Produce monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements in accordance with GAAP, and use WIP accounting methods where appropriate.
• Prepare the Utah Division and global consolidated financial statements and operating metrics.
• Oversee consultants (typically CPA’s) who perform the external audit, tax preparation, and transfer pricing policies.
• Mediate transfer pricing between ATL Technologies global business units.
• Reviews with management to ensure SMOS is minimized.
• Ensure the effectiveness of internal controls
• File all periodic regulatory and tax filings
• Direct / Control all cash management functions
• Manage accounting policies, procedures, processes and business systems to ensure high quality and efficient accounting and reporting
• Develop and maintain company budgets and produce budget versus actual analysis
• Ad hoc financial reporting and analysis, as well as special projects as needed
• Manage auditors and tax accountants
• Interact with Executive Management and Board of Directors as required

What you bring

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting/Management required; MBA preferred.
• Minimum of 9-12+ years’ experience supervising accounting/finance department, playing work-ups from assistant controller, to controller, etc.
• 3+ years with prior public accounting firm
• Prior manufacturing accounting experience helpful
• Prior experience working for companies owned and operated by private equity, family office, or VCs, is desired
• Prior public accounting experience and CPA preferred; CPA certification need not be currently active.
• Experience working with a broad range of company sizes from small businesses (where you do everything) to larger companies over $100 million in annual revenue (where you are more specialized)
• Experience working with multi-location and international experience preferred.
• Advanced knowledge of finance, accounting, budgeting, tax planning, banking, cash management, and cost control principles
• Strong technical accounting skills
• Strong financial analysis skills (e.g., cost-benefit analysis, ROI calculations)
• Regulatory reporting
• Strong accounting technical skills including the ability to prepare accurate financial reports
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, creative and innovative, organized, detail-oriented, and thorough
• Team player with a positive attitude to work with international teams
• Experience with evaluating, selecting, and integrating financial applications (e.g., you will participate on a team selecting and implementing a new ERP soon after arrival)
• Microsoft Office Suite competency is required with demonstrated “Jedi-Knight” level MS Excel skills.
• You are data-driven, with a focus on letting the data inform decision-making
• Experience with international cultures so that you understand the nuances of doing business globally.

Management

1. Maintain a timely, documented and accurate system of accounting policies and internal control procedures
2. Manage accounting functions for seven business units operating globally, primarily in the USA, Asia, and Costa Rica.
3. Oversee the operations of the accounting function, including the design of an organizational structure adequate for achieving the organization’s goals and objectives
4. Oversee the general accounting operations of G&A, travel, HR, purchasing, inventory, operations, and quality control including transaction-processing operations, and policies and procedures.
5. Work with the VP of Sales and Marketing to develop and track accurate sales forecasts and sales employee compensation data.
6. Accountable for tracking OEM manufacturing level responsibilities including general accounting, payables, billing, cost accounting, bill of materials, business analysis, financial reporting, and sales pipeline financial data and risk coordination. Ensure timely and accurate input of bill of material and price code changes in the ERP.
7. Conduct routine cost control accounting analysis for the company and for all departments and business units to safeguard the resources of the company and operations making regular improvement suggestions to CFO and executive committee for consideration. Perform audits of bills of materials to ensure product costs are accurate and accounted for properly.  Report audit results monthly. 
8. Ensure accuracy of the physical inventory and report results.  Investigate and explain ledger to physical adjustments; recommend improvements to reduce error, fraud, theft, waste and abuse. 
9. Maintain professional communications and working relationships with all vendors, suppliers, employees, and customer accounts.  Resolve disputes in a timely manner using your best judgment and company historical best practices; bring issues to the knowledge of the President and CEO for issues requiring feedback or change of policies or special considerations to our stakeholders. 
10. Perform regular physical and virtual walkthroughs of the manufacturing facilities with the department heads to discuss production and costing issues. Review labor reporting and cost, material costs, manufacturing overhead, distribution cost, returns and inventory levels.
11. Assist in the completion of special projects.

Transactions

1. Ensure that accounts payable are paid in a timely manner to obtain discounts for timely payment.
2. Regularly revisit all accounts and negotiate reasonable discounts on accounts payable for timely payment or for seasonal purchasing. 
3. As Controller, you are primarily responsible for collections on accounts; the controller ensure that accounts receivable are collected promptly and that management is apprised early of any evidence of account deterioration or delinquency.
4. For new accounts, manage the customer risk profile, pull credit histories and provide management with risk decision-making information to avoid profit fumbles on high-risk accounts.  Routinely pull industry credit reports on risk prioritized customer accounts to mitigate operations risk of troubled customer accounts
5. Controller shall routinely monitor vendor costs including freight and shall conduct cost and procurement analysis to assure best value to the company. 
6. Calculate and Process semi-monthly payroll in a timely manner.  Document and report to all government taxing and reporting authorities. 
7. Ensure that periodic bank reconciliations are completed and matched against posted entries in the accounting/ERP systems online.
8. Ensure that required financings, installment loans, lease payments are made on a timely basis to preserve credit status and discounts with vendors. Maintain the chart of accounts
9. Update and Maintain the chart of accounts; create an accountability process to verify all GL entries with the CFO.
10. Maintain an orderly accounting electronic and paper document filing system
11. Maintain a system of controls over accounting transactions
12. Develop and update a cadence of regular daily, weekly, and monthly financial control KPI dashboards for active review by the CEO, CFO, management team, and periodically by Board of Directors.  In time, work with the department heads of all business units, and design, implement, and automate individual performance dashboards for all employees.

Reporting

1. Issue timely and complete financial statements, P&L, BS, forward looking cash flow statements, and other operational and tax related schedules.
2. Prepare financials and coordinate with the Company’s outside tax preparer on a regular basis to take advantage of all economic and tax incentives for timely reporting, expensing and investment. 
3. Coordinate the preparation of the corporate annual report and CEO’s state of the company report.
4. Recommend benchmarks against which to measure the performance of company business units and departmental operations
5. Calculate and issue financial and operating metrics with key performing indicators for all departments, functions and employee supervision.
6. Coordinate the production of the annual budget and forecasts providing support to the CFO who is ultimately responsible for decision making on the budget.
7. Calculate variances from the budget and report significant issues to management
8. Provide for a system of management cost reports
9. Provide financial analyses as needed, in particular for capital investments, pricing decisions, and contract negotiations
10. Maintain EBIDTA related schedules for depreciation, amortization, tax accruals, etc as part of the regular bookkeeping process.

Compliance

1. Prepare annually an internal audit of the company and prepare such information and reports to the President, CEO and Board of Directors and company’s external third-party financial advisors.
2. Assure adherence to Generally Accepted Accounting Policies. Resolve questions of GAAP and internal controls with corporate management.
3. Monitor debt levels and compliance with debt covenants
4. Annually review employee related expenses, observe reporting behavior, and make recommendations on how to manage costs and improve employee communications; conduct annual training of employee expense eligible team members on best practices and things to avoid.
5. Comply with local, state, and federal government reporting requirements and tax filings
6. Annually conduct a compliance and accounting and taxation trends and “change in requirements” study; conduct and impact analysis review for the company; and brief the CEO, CFO, executive management team, and Board of development impacting the company.

Human Resources

1. Support the HR Manager with full cycle support for a seamless payroll and benefits administration process.

Working Conditions: Working primarily in an office environment from ATL Technology headquarters located in Springville, UT. Will be expected to travel as needed to company remote business units Costa Rica, Asia, as well as to potential acquirees to conduct due diligence.  Periodic weekend or evening work is expected.