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Job #: 
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160240
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Title: 
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Assistant Controller
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Location: 
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Ridgeway, VA
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Salary Range: 
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$85,000-$100,000 annual salary
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Position: 
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ACCOUNTANT
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Description: 
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AmeriStaff Employment and Staffing Solutions is seeking an Assistant Controller in Ridgeway, VA. This position will support the company's accounting, financial, and administrative operations in a manufacturing environment while helping ensure accurate financial reporting, strong internal controls, and meaningful operational financial analysis.
Pay of the Assistant Controller: - $85,000-$100,000 annual salary
Responsibilities of the Assistant Controller: - Enter and maintain accurate general ledger transactions, prepare routine journal entries, and reconcile bank and assigned balance-sheet accounts.
- Maintain supporting schedules, organized accounting files, and documentation while researching and resolving accounting discrepancies.
- Coordinate monthly, quarterly, and year-end close processes, including journal entries, reconciliations, accruals, and prepaid expenses.
- Ensure financial statements and management reports are complete, accurate, and delivered on a timely basis.
- Analyze financial results, gross margin, operating expenses, working capital, inventory turns, and other key financial metrics.
- Assist with annual financial statement audits, tax-related requirements, and management-requested financial analyses.
- Oversee accounting for raw materials, work-in-process, finished goods, inventory, and manufacturing variances.
- Monitor and analyze material, labor, overhead, production costs, product costing, and standard costing processes.
- Reconcile inventory subledgers to the general ledger, investigate discrepancies, and support physical inventory and cycle counts.
- Help management understand product margins, profitability, production variances, and manufacturing cost drivers.
- Oversee accounts receivable activities, including invoicing, cash application, aging, collections, customer credit exposure, and bad-debt reserves.
- Oversee accounts payable processes, including coding, approvals, payment controls, vendor issues, cash requirements, and cash forecasting.
- Develop, implement, and maintain effective accounting policies, procedures, internal controls, segregation of duties, and approval controls.
- Identify opportunities to improve accounting processes, automation, reporting, efficiency, and ERP/accounting system functionality.
Requirements for the Assistant Controller: - Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
- Minimum of five (5) years of progressive accounting experience.
- Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP.
- Experience with month-end close and financial statement preparation.
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills and experience with ERP/accounting systems.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and communication skills.
- Ability to work independently while partnering effectively with Operations and other departments.
- High level of attention to detail and accuracy.
- Hands-on, analytical, detail-oriented, and process-improvement-minded approach.
Preferred Experience: - Manufacturing accounting experience.
- Experience with inventory and cost accounting, including product costing and production variances.
- Experience with gross-margin analysis.
- Experience in a privately held or middle-market manufacturing company.
- #INDAI2472
Location: Ridgeway, VA.
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Requirements: 
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Job Type: 
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Permanent
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Post Date: 
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08/26/2026
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