We're looking to add an experienced Controller to our Convivial Brands team in Grand Rapids, MI!
Who Are We?
Convivial Brands is the umbrella company to four brands - Design Design, Verdant Graphics, The High Five GR, and Tableau. At Convivial Brands, everything we do revolves around Making Life Better - which includes creating opportunities, products, and a culture that strives to do just that. The physical products we make help people celebrate and enhance life. From celebrating a wedding to giving a small gift of appreciation, each brand produces a product or service that intends to make life friendly, lively, and jovial - ergo making life Convivial.
The Position:
As the Controller, you will be responsible for the controllership and accounting duties, including but not limited to, recording financial transactions, maintaining accurate accounting records, preparing account reconciliations, completing financial statements, and providing a variety of reports and analyses to assist management in financial reporting and critical decision making. In this role, you will also directly manage the accounting team.
- Focus on full cycle accounting processes for specific entities within Convivial Brands group: Design Design, Tableau, Verdant, High Five, CB Manufacturing, group Property entities.
- Responsible for Corporate Consolidation and all inter-company reconciliations. Continued development of all financial reporting systems leveraging all tools available.
- Manage intercompany transactions on a weekly, monthly and annual basis.
- Completes monthly account reconciliations, analyses and schedules.
- Hands-on approach ranging from processing of AP/AR to preparing monthly journal entries to creating monthly financial statements.
- Weekly Cash Forecasting.
- Ownership of Cost Accounting duties for all group brands.
- Lead all annual budgets & monthly forecasts.
- Complete workpapers for annual CPA and regulatory review.
- Process all Monthly Commission / Rebates, and in primary lead on Quarterly Royalties for all Convivial brands.
- Support Annual Insurance Renewals for group Property, General Liability and Transit Insurance Policies, collaborating with HR when necessary on Worker’s Comp.
- Ensure all State Tax, State Sales Tax, Property Tax and general regulatory communication / follow-up / payments required are completed.
- Capable of advanced analytical skills, attention to detail, dealing with ambiguity.
- Focus on improving processes with primary focus on improving technical linkages between core ERP (Microsoft NAV) with other group companies’ specific ERP systems, and assist in any systems enhancements.
- Project based activities to standardize/document/implement accounting procedures with focus on continuous improvement across all entities.
- Lead & develop General Accounting team (including AR & AP).
- All other duties as assigned by supervisor.
What Makes Us Special?
- Convivial Brands is a family-owned company based in Grand Rapids, MI.
- We are a culture-focused company built around our three Core Values - being trustworthy, pursuing excellence, and having a team first mindset.
- We are an EOS company - this is our company's "operating system" and ensures we have a clear, shared vision for the company, that we're gaining traction through ensuring accountability, and that we're building healthy teams.
- We put our team members first and strive to meet them where they are in life, helping them achieve work/life integration.
- Most importantly, our team members make us special. We believe each of our team members' individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, inventiveness, innovation, unique capabilities and talent - and the way they invest those in their work - is key to our culture, our reputation, and our success as a company.
- We offer great benefits - 8 company-recognized holidays, a generous PTO bank, and a variety of benefits, including health, dental, vision, company-paid short-term and long-term disability and life insurance, voluntary life insurance, permanent life insurance with chronic conditions rider, critical illness and accident coverage, legal insurance, identity protection, and pet insurance.
- We offer a generous 401(k) (traditional pre-tax or ROTH) with a match. The only requirement to participate is that you be 21 years of age. The match is effective the first of the quarter after 90 days of employment. Convivial matches 100% of the first 3% of your compensation, and then 50% on the next 2% of your compensation. All amounts are fully vested immediately.
Convivial Brands Diversity & Inclusion Statement:
Convivial Brands is committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity and inclusion. Our people are our most valuable asset. our employees' individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, inventiveness, innovation, self-expression, unique capabilities and talent - and the way they invest their unique identities in their work - are a significant part of our culture, our reputation, and our achievements. We embrace and encourage our team members' differences in age, colore, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristices that make our team members unique. Convivial Brands' diversity initiatives apply to all parts of the employment experience, including but not limited to our practices and policies on recruitment and selection; compensation and benefits; professional development and training; promotions; social and recreational programs; layoffs and separations; and the ongoing development of a work environment built on the premise of gender and diversity equity. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
