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Job Title: Controller - Kollmorgen Controls
Department: Finance
Location: Santa Barbara, California
Reports To: Kollmorgen Controls, Vice President-Finance
FLSA Status: Exempt
Prepared Date: Jan 15, 2007
DANAHER MOTION GROUP SUMMARY:
Danaher Corporation designs, manufactures and markets products and services with strong brand names, proprietary technologies and major market positions that improve the way we live and work. Building on the foundation provided by Danaher Business System and the company’s core values, Danaher’s associates are pursuing a focused strategy aimed at creating a Premier Global Enterprise.
Danaher’s Motion Team is revolutionizing the way things move. Electronic motion control brings quantum leaps in flexibility, precision, efficiency and reliability to applications as diverse as robots, wheelchairs, lift trucks and packaging machines. Our breadth of products and brands are unmatched. Danaher Motion Group is a globally active company in one of the fastest growing industries ? the automation industry. We bring together strong names in motion control including Kollmorgen, Thompson and Dover Precision Systems.
POSITION SUMMARY:
This position is directly accountable to the Vice President-Finance for organizing, developing, and maintaining a meaningful accounting system for the division: for establishing the monthly financial forecast and analysis, and annual financial plan; for managing and directing all functions of general accounting, cost accounting, accounts receivable, accounts payable and payroll; and responsible for the accuracy and timeliness of all financial analysis and reporting.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Actively drives management team to all financial commitments, and provide analysis and recommendations for countermeasures to financial variances.
- Ensures profitable growth by recommending, establishing, and preparing annual and long range profit plans in accordance with division, group and corporate guidelines.
- Ensures accuracy and compliance with established corporate policies and GAAP, and compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley internal control requirements.
- Meets all reporting requirements and deadlines through review and audit of all monthly, annual and special financial reports.
- Keeps Controls Leadership informed of the division performance by maintaining regular contact with the Vice President-Finance.
- Ensures proper levels of staffing and provide for the continuing development of department personnel ensuring an adequate talent pool to meet present and future needs.
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
- Bachelors degree in Accounting/Finance.
- CMA or CPA certification.
- M.B.A. strongly preferred.
- Minimum seven years experience of demonstrated finance leadership.
- Experience at a large, mutli-division publicly held company preferred.
- Prior experience using Excel and Hyperion, and Oracle is preferred.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Must be willing and able to travel by all forms of transportation.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
MATHEMATICAL SKILLS
Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages.
REASONING ABILITY
Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
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