About This Role
Controller (Part\-Time, 20–30 hrs/week)
Austin, TX \| Reports to the CEO \| $90\-105/hour (1099\)
About the company:
We're an established Austin manufacturer with $15–20M in annual revenue, customers across the U.S. and internationally, and a supply chain that includes overseas contract manufacturers. We're a small, lean team, and our Controller is the entire finance function: you'll own the books, the close, and the numbers leadership uses to run the business.
What you'll do:
*Accounting and close*
- Run the monthly close in our ERP (Expandable), including accruals, reversing entries, and reconciliations for cash, AR, AP, unvouchered inventory, and inventory by location
- Produce monthly and quarterly financial statements and maintain the reporting templates (BizInsight)
- Maintain the fixed asset and depreciation schedule
- Keep the company on its modified cash basis, with accruals for significant recurring items like design fees, inventory obsolescence, commissions, and bonuses
*Cash and reporting*
- Manage daily cash: review bank activity, post ACH, wire, and credit card receipts, and oversee lockbox posting
- Deliver the daily sales, bookings, backlog, and cash position reports to ownership
- Approve wires and manage prepayments to overseas vendors
*Inventory and cost*
- Oversee inventory accounting across multiple locations (including offshore), standard costs, and purchase price variances
- Clear prepaid inventory as goods are received and flag standard costs that need updating
*Payroll, tax, and compliance*
- Oversee payroll through our third\-party provider (weekly hourly and semi\-monthly salaried), payroll journal entries, and 401(k) funding
- File quarterly sales and use tax in Texas, California, and Michigan
- Prepare the annual Freeport exemption and property tax rendition for Travis Central Appraisal District
- Process partner distributions and maintain the books for the general partner entity (QuickBooks)
*People and process*
- Supervise the Accounting Admin, who handles AP entry, check runs, and AR support
- Approve non\-PO invoices and own collections escalations and write\-offs
- Keep procedures documented and current, and look for ways to simplify how the work gets done
What you bring:
- 7\+ years of progressive accounting experience, including time as a Controller or Assistant Controller at a manufacturing or distribution company
- Hands\-on experience with inventory accounting, standard costing, and a mid\-market ERP (Expandable experience is a plus, not a requirement)
- Comfort running a close end to end without a large team behind you
- Working knowledge of multi\-state sales tax; Texas Freeport experience is a plus
- A partnership or LP background is helpful
- Strong Excel skills
- You're comfortable being the person the CEO calls with a finance question, and you can give a clear answer
Pay:
- $95\-105/hour, 1099
- 20\-30 hours/week
- Hybrid schedule, office located in Northeast Austin (near 183 \& 290\)
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