Controller (Part-time)

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)