Vice President & Corporate Controller at PlayCore

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

This role provides leadership for enterprise accounting, close and consolidation, financial reporting, shared finance services, treasure operations, and financial data governance. This position is responsible for building a disciplined, service-oriented organization capable of supporting organic growth, acquisitions, and increasing organizational complexity. This includes developing standardized and scalable solutions for routine finance activities, improving quality, consistency, efficiency and controls while creating capacity for business-unit finance teams to focus more fully on operating performance and strategic business partnership.

Enterprise Accounting, Close, and Financial Reporting

• Lead the enterprise close, consolidation and financial processes and establish clear reporting standards, review protocols, and accountability for financial information.
• Ensure consolidated financial results are accurate, complete, timely, and supported by appropriate documentation.
• Oversee corporate departmental accounting
• Identify and resolve significant accounting, reporting and control
• Lead the incorporation of acquired businesses into enterprise accounting and reporting standards and processes.

Accounting Authority and Technical Review

• Serve as the senior accounting authority below the Chief Financial Officer for enterprise accounting policies, technical accounting conclusions, and consolidated financial statement
• Review and approve material accounting conclusions, including supporting documentation, classification, presentation, and
• Evaluate complex and nonrecurring transactions and determine the appropriate level of technical support and
• Engage and manage external accounting specialists as

Financial Controls and Reporting Governance

• Establish and maintain close, journal-entry, reconciliation, and financial reporting review
• Define standards governing the documentation, review, approval and retention of accounting
• Drive timely remediation of financial close-related control deficiencies and recurring reporting

Finance Systems and Financial Data Governance

• Oversee finance business requirements for systems used to close, consolidate, and report actual financial results.
• Establish governance for the chart of accounts, reporting hierarchy, financial master data, system access, and approval
• Prioritize finance automation and process improvement

Shared Finance Services

• Develop and execute a long-term strategy for standardized or shared transaction processing
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, controls, service quality, and scalability through process standardization, technology enablement, and organizational
• Establish appropriate service levels, performance measures, and continuous improvement

Treasury Operations

• Oversee treasury operation, including cash-position visibility, banking administration, treasury accounting, and debt-accounting
• Ensure accurate financial information is available for covenant reporting and routine treasury
• Support the Chief Financial Officer on liquidity, financing, lender, and capital-structure matters as

Leadership and Collaboration

• Build, lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team with clear accountability and decision
• Assess organizational capability, succession risk, and key-person dependencies while developing future leaders and critical
• Build effective partnerships across other corporate and business
• Foster a culture of integrity, accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and sound financial decision-making.

Qualifications And Requirements

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related
• At least 12 years of progressive finance or accounting experience, including at least five years leading teams and significant controllership, accounting, consolidation, or financial reporting
• Experience in a mature, control-based environment with rigorous documentation, review, evidence, financial-reporting discipline, and accountability
• Experience supporting a multi-site or multi-business
• Experience implementing or transforming enterprise accounting processes, financial controls, reporting standards, financial systems, automation, or data governance across multiple
• Experience designing, leading, or scaling shared services, centralized transaction processing, or enterprise accounting
• Demonstrated expertise in U.S. GAAP, consolidated financial reporting, close management, accounting policy, and SOX compliant internal
• Demonstrated ability to balance technical rigor with materiality, risk, pace, and business
• Experience using enterprise financial systems, consolidation tools, reporting platforms, and advanced spreadsheet
• Strong leadership, communication, analytical, organizational and change-management

Preferred Qualifications

• CPA, MBA or
• Experience in manufacturing, distribution, or a similarly complex operating
• Experience with acquisition accounting, financial integration, and the incorporation of acquired businesses into enterprise-level reporting
• Experience with private equity backed environments and related financial reporting
• Experience improving financial systems, processes, and reporting across multiple

Key Competencies

• Technical accounting and financial reporting expertise
• Process transformation and systems thinking
• Integrity and sound judgment
• Accountability and execution
• Leadership and talent development
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Clear executive communication