Controller

• Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual close.
• Build an efficient, repeatable monthly close process focused on a timely, predictable cadence that meets sponsor and lender expectations.
• Reconcile franchisor-controlled membership billing to the general ledger and validate deferred / recurring membership revenue.
• Prepare accurate, GAAP-compliant financial statements, ensuring consistency across multiple legal entities, clubs, and business units.
• Drive execution of Sage Intacct migration, including chart-of-accounts design, dimensional reporting, testing, data migration and cutover.
• Lead the transition from cash-basis to full accrual accounting.
• Stand up scalable, repeatable processes that support rapid new-club onboarding.
• Lead automation of AP, AR, and reconciliations to reduce manual work and outsourced-firm reliance.
• Integrate source systems (ABC Fitness billing, Paylocity payroll, Ramp) into the accounting stack as needed.
• Design and document internal controls across cash handling, purchasing, and membership revenue recognition.
• Ensure regulatory compliance (sales/use tax, property tax, and other state/local requirements) across all club locations.
• Conduct periodic self-audits to proactively identify risks and gaps.
• Initiate and control wires for new-club real estate/build costs, capital investments, and tax payments.
• Optimize working capital, balancing payables, receivables, and capital expenditure needs across an active build pipeline.
• Own fixed-asset accounting and construction-in-progress (CIP) tracking across the new-build pipeline.
• Track and report unit-level capital deployment against budget.

• Provide strategic financial leadership for all North America and South America operations including Cleveland Manufacturing, Barberton Wheel Plant, Barberton Cast House, Monterey Manufacturing and Brazil, ensuring alignment with corporate financial objectives and business strategy.
• Primary partner to drive cost analysis and pricing proposals to improve profitability and cash flow.
• Lead, coach and develop a team of Plant Controllers, establishing performance expectations and driving accountability.
• Oversee the monthly close process across all North and South America locations, ensuring timely, accurate and consistent financial reporting while resolving significant issues impacting results.
• Review and consolidate regional financial results, communicating key risks & opportunities and performance trends to executive leadership.
• Lead the regional forecasting, annual operating plan and long-range financial planning processes, ensuring alignment across manufacturing, supply chain, commercial and corporate finance organizations.
• Drive forecast accuracy and financial discipline by reviewing plant forecasts, challenging assumptions and ensuring consistency across all locations.
• Partner with Operations, Supply Chain, Commercial and executive leadership to identify opportunities to improve profitability, productivity, working capital and overall business performance.
• Establish and maintain standardized accounting policies, internal controls and financial processes across all North America and South America sites to ensure compliance with corporate and regulatory requirements.
• Provide governance over inventory accounting, manufacturing cost accounting, account reconciliations and financial controls while ensuring consistency across all plants.
• Ensure compliance with SOX requirements, internal control standards, ASAT completion and corporate accounting policies across the region, driving timely resolution of identified control gaps.
• Serve as the regional finance leader for Internal Audit, external audit and corporate finance activities, coordinating audit readiness and ensuring timely responses to audit requests.
• Oversee regional inventory control processes including physical inventory programs, cycle count compliance, inventory valuation and reconciliation activities.
• Monitor capital expenditures and significant financial initiatives to ensure appropriate financial controls and return on investment.
• Identify financial risks, operational challenges and emerging business trends across the region, developing action plans in partnership with Plant Controllers and operational leadership.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance financial reporting, standardize processes, strengthen controls and improve operational efficiency throughout the regional network.
• Support strategic initiatives affecting the North America manufacturing locations.
• Perform strategic financial analyses and executive-level reporting as requested by the HWS VP of Finance and senior leadership.

Regional Controller

• Oversee the company’s accounting and financial operations, ensuring accurate reporting, compliance, and financial integrity across all business functions.
• Manage the accounting team and lead the processes for financial close, audits, budgeting, and internal controls.
• Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual close process end-to-end, ensuring financials are accurate, complete, and delivered on a consistent, reliable timeline.
• Establish and enforce a disciplined close calendar with clear deadlines, ownership, and review controls.
• Review and approve all journal entries, accruals, and financial statements, ensuring they are fully supported and aligned with GAAP.
• Identify breakdowns in the close process and implement improvements that increase accuracy, speed, and consistency.
• Deliver financial reporting that is clear, explainable, and actionable for leadership.
• Ensure all balance sheet accounts are fully reconciled monthly, supported, and reviewed, with no aged or unexplained balances.
• Build and enforce standardized reconciliation processes, including documentation, review, and approval workflows.
• Investigate and resolve discrepancies across systems (GL, payroll, billing, bank activity) to ensure full alignment.
• Maintain clear, accurate visibility into cash and financial position at all times.
• Own all treasury functions, including cash management, banking relationships, and liquidity oversight.
• Monitor cash flow, forecast needs, and ensure sufficient funding across accounts and programs.
• Oversee bank reconciliations, cash movement, and controls around disbursements and receipts.
• Develop, own, and continuously improve the company’s internal control environment across all financial operations.
• Establish clear ownership, segregation of duties, and approval structures to reduce risk and ensure accountability.
• Proactively identify control gaps and implement practical, sustainable solutions.
• Ensure audit readiness at all times with clean documentation and support.
• Serve as the primary lead for audits and regulatory reviews.
• Own and oversee all accounting functions, including GL, AP, AR, payroll accounting, and financial reporting for all entities.
• Take accountability and provide hands-on leadership for the quality, accuracy, and timeliness of all financial operations.
• Ensure strong coordination between accounting, billing, payroll, and operations to support clean financial outcomes.
• Continuously evaluate and improve accounting processes using current technologies, automation, and best practices.
• Make practical recommendations to leadership on tools, systems, and process changes that improve efficiency and control.
• Partner with IT and operational teams to streamline data flow and eliminate system gaps.
• Build scalable, repeatable processes that reduce manual work and reliance on individuals.
• Develop and maintain dashboards, KPIs, and reporting tools that provide visibility into financial performance.
• Create clear metrics around profitability, cost drivers, and operational efficiency.
• Deliver insights that help leadership understand performance and make informed decisions.
• Lead, manage, and develop the accounting team, establishing clear expectations, ownership, and accountability.
• Train and mentor staff, strengthening technical skills, consistency, and performance over time.
• Build a team that can execute a disciplined close, strong reconciliations, and reliable reporting.
• Foster a culture of accountability, accuracy, and continuous improvement.
• Serve as a key financial partner across the organization, working closely with operations, leadership, and other departments.
• Communicate financial information clearly and effectively to both internal and external stakeholders.
• Participate in client-facing discussions as needed, representing the financial function with credibility and clarity.

Vice President, Finance – Controller

• Calculate and monitor standard and actual costs for flavor products
• Analyze variances (materials, labor, overhead) and provide feedback to Operations, Pricing and R&D
• Ensure accurate BOMs and routings in collaboration with R&D and Production
• Perform in-depth margin analysis by product, customer, and business segment
• Support annual budgeting and periodic forecasting for total company and business segments
• Prepare monthly management reports, including KPIs, manufacturing variances, and inventory analysis
• Serve as a Controlling partner for Operations, R&D, and Supply Chain
• Provide ad hoc financial analysis and recommendations to support strategic decisions at local and regional levels
• Actively engaged in the S4/Hana upgrade of SAP
• Develop and maintain dashboards and reports in Power BI
• Identify and implement best practices in controlling, cost management, and reporting

Senior Controller

• Manage and support a team responsible for the month-end close for the Global Operations, including general ledger, A/P, fixed assets, payroll, expense reporting, and tax compliance.
• Manage the monthly close timeline process across all subsidiaries, including review of journal entries, inter-company transactions, account analyses, and reconciliations.
• Track and monitor the differences between US GAAP and statutory reporting for subsidiaries in India, Netherlands, Brazil, and Poland.
• Strong background with foreign currency accounting to support subsidiaries in consolidation.
• Ensure foreign payroll and subsidiary fundings are scheduled monthly, and JE’s are properly booked.
• Prepare and calculate internal accounting for debt, transfer pricing and capitalized internally developed software.
• Partner with the Controller as the point person for the external audit.
• Foster strong relationships with International Operations, Outsourced Payroll Providers, ACS (NetSuite), RSM Audit / Tax, Legal, Operations, and Payroll.
• Lead contact for foreign subsidiary annual financial statement compilation and tax returns.
• Partner with internal and external teams on all M&A activity, including due diligence and post-acquisition integration efforts.
• Collaborate with FP&A and other cross-functional departments to ensure completeness of accruals
• Ensure compliance with accounting policies, procedures, and internal controls
• Prepare all government census reports. (Relaying required information from company financial statements to the census reports as instructions direct, as well as interacting with necessary departments)
• Contribute to special projects, and perform assigned projects with the highest attention to detail, exhibiting a strong work ethic.
• Help drive process and efficiency improvements that will allow the Company to scale with future growth.
• Develop and documents business processes and accounting policies to drive operational efficiencies and strengthen internal controls as needed

Assistant Controller

• Directs the accounting activities for identified business segment(s)
• Ensures that accounting controls are adequate and effective
• Responsible for ensuring that reconciliations are accurate, complete and in compliance with US GAAP
• Acts as collaborative business partner with identified business segment(s)
• Strategically identify and implement opportunities to improve controls and financial performance

Business Segment Controller

• Successfully completes monthly closing cycles to properly reflect the financial position of the plant including P&L, capital base, and cash flow operations
• Directs and oversees monthly physical inventory processes
• Provides financial analysis, support and guidance to all line managers and the Plant Manager
• Monitors the financial policies, practices, and procedures of the operation
• Directs the activities and provides leadership to procurement employees, ensuring all company values are inherent in daily performance of responsibilities
• Manage capital spending requests, including calculating payback and developing sound business cases to present to management requesting capital funds
• Act as the liaison between plant and region/corporate finance teams to ensure alignment consistency and transparency in reporting and decision making
• Partners with the Plant Manager and department leaders to develop and monitor budgets, forecasts, and performance metrics, and drive accountability to financial goals

• Safety is E2 Optics' number one Core Value. All employees are expected to follow safe work practices, as well as adhere to company and client worksite safety policies and procedures.
• Assist project teams with tracking project costs, labor hours, and quantities.
• Support the development and maintenance of project cost forecasts under guidance from senior project controls staff.
• Assist in collecting and updating cost data for use in reports and forecasting.
• Help prepare internal and client-facing cost reports, highlighting key trends and variances.
• Support change order management processes, including documentation, routing, and tracking.
• Assist with project cash flow forecasting and updates.
• Help maintain alignment between project budgets, schedules, and actual costs.
• Support data collection for schedule updates and labor forecasts.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure accurate and timely financial information.
• Prepare and submit accurate and timely monthly invoices for assigned projects/region.
• Track invoice status and follow up as needed to support project cash flow.
• Coordinate with Project Managers and Finance to ensure billing aligns with project progress and contract requirements.
• Travel: The individual in this role should be able and willing to travel as required by E2 Optics.

Junior Cost Controller – Summer Intern

• Safety is E2 Optics' number one Core Value.
• All employees are expected to follow safe work practices, as well as adhere to company and client worksite safety policies and procedures.
• Assist project teams with tracking project costs, labor hours, and quantities.
• Support the development and maintenance of project cost forecasts under guidance from senior project controls staff.
• Assist in collecting and updating cost data for use in reports and forecasting.
• Help prepare internal and client-facing cost reports, highlighting key trends and variances.
• Support change order management processes, including documentation, routing, and tracking.
• Assist with project cash flow forecasting and updates.
• Help maintain alignment between project budgets, schedules, and actual costs.
• Support data collection for schedule updates and labor forecasts.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure accurate and timely financial information.
• Prepare and submit accurate and timely monthly invoices for assigned projects/region.
• Track invoice status and follow up as needed to support project cash flow.
• Coordinate with Project Managers and Finance to ensure billing aligns with project progress and contract requirements.
• Travel: The individual in this role should be able and willing to travel as required by E2 Optics.

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