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Job #:  160240
Title:  Assistant Controller
Location:  Ridgeway, VA
Salary Range:  $85,000-$100,000 annual salary
Position:  ACCOUNTANT
Description: 
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.
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Location:
Ridgeway, VA.
Requirements: 
Job Type:  Permanent
Post Date:  08/26/2026