Trueline is seeking a Controller to join their team in Portland, Tennessee. This is a high-impact leadership opportunity for an experienced manufacturing finance professional to serve as the senior financial leader of the organization, partnering directly with executive leadership to support continued growth, operational excellence, and long-term business strategy.
What You'll Do as the Controller:
- Lead all accounting and financial operations for the business
- Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes
- Prepare and analyze financial statements in accordance with GAAP
- Oversee general ledger activity, cash management, accounts payable, accounts receivable, and fixed assets
- Ensure accurate inventory valuation and work-in-process reporting
- Drive financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting initiatives
- Develop KPIs, dashboards, and financial models to support business decisions
- Partner closely with operations leadership to improve cost visibility and profitability
- Manage standard costing processes and analyze manufacturing variances
- Support pricing decisions, margin analysis, and operational performance improvements
- Maintain banking relationships and assist with financing activities
- Evaluate capital investments and support long-range planning initiatives
- Coordinate tax compliance, audits, insurance programs, and financial governance activities
- Serve as the financial leader and primary ERP business owner
- Present financial results and recommendations to executive leadership and ownership groups
- Lead and mentor accounting staff while helping scale financial processes for future growth
Must-Haves as the Controller:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
- 10+ years of progressive accounting and finance experience
- Strong manufacturing accounting background
- Expertise in cost accounting, inventory accounting, and work-in-process accounting
- Experience leading month-end close and financial reporting processes
- Budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning experience
- ERP experience within a manufacturing environment
- Strong financial analysis and business partnership capabilities
- Ability to thrive in a lean, hands-on organization
Nice-to-Haves as the Controller:
- CPA or CMA designation
- Automotive manufacturing experience
- Metal stamping, fabrication, machining, or industrial manufacturing experience
- Plant Controller experience
- Standard costing expertise
- Experience presenting to ownership groups, boards, or executive leadership teams
- Banking and lending relationship management experience
- Capital equipment evaluation and investment analysis experience
This position Offers:
- Base salary of $140,000 - $160,000
- Annual bonus opportunity targeted at 15%
- Comprehensive medical insurance
- Life insurance coverage
- Dental and vision plan options
- 401(k) with company match
- Flexible work environment with remote Fridays
- Direct access to executive leadership
- Significant visibility and influence across the organization
- Long-term career growth opportunity
- Stable and profitable business experiencing strong year-over-year growth
- Opportunity to shape financial processes, systems, and strategic decision-making
Trueline is an unabashed equal-opportunity employers committed to a diverse workforce. We welcome smart and ambitious applicants and recruit, refer, hire, place, and promote without regard to race, color, gender, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, age, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by federal or state law.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
- 10+ years of progressive accounting and finance experience
- Strong manufacturing accounting background
- Expertise in cost accounting, inventory accounting, and work-in-process accounting
- Experience leading month-end close and financial reporting processes
- Budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning experience
- ERP experience within a manufacturing environment
- Strong financial analysis and business partnership capabilities
- Ability to thrive in a lean, hands-on organization
- CPA or CMA designation
- Automotive manufacturing experience
- Metal stamping, fabrication, machining, or industrial manufacturing experience
- Plant Controller experience
- Standard costing expertise
- Experience presenting to ownership groups, boards, or executive leadership teams
- Banking and lending relationship management experience
- Capital equipment evaluation and investment analysis experience
What We Do
Who are we? As an independent, full-service marketing and consulting business based in Portland, Maine, we provide strategy, content and design for businesses, nonprofits and individuals in Maine and throughout the world. What do we do? Everything we do revolves around ROI—improving your bottom line. Through a rock-solid communication and branding strategy, we show you how to support and engage your employees, build your workforce, find new clients and support existing business. Here’s a snapshot of our services: Strategy: Branding and rebranding; mission statement; search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine results page (SERP); hiring and retention; fundraising; communicating with board members; personal branding (for executives); events and PR; advertising campaigns; product launches; social media campaigns and management. Design: Websites; logos; promotional material (digital and print); event guides; employee photos; drone video footage; custom magazines; advertisements. Content: Website text; speeches and keynotes; promotional text; employee bios; custom articles; social media posts; newsletters and internal emails; corporate reports. Custom Publishing: Vanguard, Equity, Toggle, Blueprint, Vision, Terra Firma What’s our mission? We want to help you solve real challenges—like growing your business, hiring and retaining employees, fundraising and keeping existing business. Our mission is to do this with honesty and integrity. Authenticity—it’s a good look on you. Why do we do this? We want to reimagine marketing. We want it to be less about the perfect image, and more about using good communication and branding as a way to engage with your employees and clients in successful and lasting relationships. Ultimately, we believe this approach will create a world where people come before profit, where the environment is respected and given back to, and where good business is synonymous with the best intentions.
