Controller

Company Description

Founded in 1962 in New York City's Greenwich Village, Murray's Cheese remains a cornerstone of the community with three NYC locations, including the flagship store on Bleecker Street. The company offers diverse experiences, from cheese counters and catering services to education and events. With state-of-the-art cheese caves in Long Island City, Murray's ages its own cheese and delivers them nationwide through its online shop and in more than a thousand Kroger and Kroger-owned stores. Murray’s also operates two restaurants and provides tailored wholesale offerings to over 600 restaurants across the U.S., maintaining its dedication to high-quality, hand-selected specialty cheese.

Role Description

The Controller will lead company-wide finance \& accounting functions which consist of but are not limited to budgeting, tax filing, insurance, financial statements, establishing financial policies, procedures, controls, audit, and reporting systems. The position requires a candidate with strong integrity, attention to detail, effective management and communications skills and an understanding of internal controls. Additionally, you will directly manage and mentor the finance \& accounting team of four.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the financial reporting functions of the company
• Maintain accounting policies, procedures and internal controls for and ensure compliance with all regulatory reporting requirements
• Review and ensure financial controls and compliance with corporate policies are maintained - work with parent company to ensure any financial requests are satisfactorily resolved in a timely manner
• Lead accounting department people to carry job functions including general ledger, A/P, A/R, billing, credit card management and receipts, internal control development and implementation for separation of responsibility, tax/compliance in the areas of sales taxes, new state registrations, penalty abatement and other related tasks
• Serve on planning and policy-making committees with other core leaders
• Lead training for finance \& accounting staff
• Prepare monthly management reports
• Manage the company’s budget process including performing budget to actual comparison and related analysis
• Perform financial modeling of new business proposals and the related evaluation of the related financial reporting, controls and automation necessary to successfully support such programs
• Build strong collaborative relationships with staff, management, and external resources.
• Partner with operations team to ensure inventory control processes and procedure accuracy
• Provide financial tracking over projects

Requirements:

• CPA
• 7-10 years of prior experience in corporate or public accounting
• Advanced Excel skills including pivots and lookups
• Experience with an ERP system (Netsuite preferred)

Work Perks:

• Weekly pay
• Paid vacation and sick time
• 401k company match
• 1x company sponsored life insurance
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Pretax commuter, healthcare and dependent care benefits
• Discounts on our products!

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