Corporate Controller

Description

Veterans Encouraged to Apply: Detroit Defense proudly supports those who have served. We welcome applicants with military experience, including those transitioning to civilian careers. Your leadership, adaptability, and mission-focused mindset are valued here. Detroit Defense is a 4x recipient of the Hire Vets Gold Medallion Award.

Detroit Defense is seeking an experienced and strategic Corporate Controller to lead the company's accounting operations, financial reporting, compliance, and internal control environment in support of a growing defense contracting and manufacturing organization. We are looking for a candidate located in the Troy, MI or Washington DC Area.  The Corporate Controller will oversee day-to-day accounting activities across both corporate and plant operations, ensure compliance with GAAP, FAR, CAS, and government contracting requirements, and support executive leadership with accurate financial analysis and operational insight.

This role is responsible for maintaining the integrity of the company's financial records, leading monthly and annual close processes, managing audits, overseeing plant-level financial controls, and supporting scalable financial operations aligned with company growth objectives.

The ideal candidate will possess strong technical accounting expertise, government contracting and manufacturing experience, and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, high-growth defense environment.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead all accounting operations including general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll accounting, fixed assets, cost accounting, and plant-level financial reporting.
• Prepare and review financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP.
• Develop and maintain financial reporting packages for executive leadership and Board of Directors.
• Ensure accuracy of revenue recognition, project accounting, indirect rate calculations, and contract cost allocations.
• Complete and analyze financial and statistical reports reflecting plant financial position and KPIs; perform cost and operating variance analyses to identify root causes and partner with operations to drive improvement.
• Support annual plant-wide physical inventory counts and daily cycle counts; perform analysis of variances identified during inventory counts to maintain inventory costs at budgeted levels.
• Analyze plant capital budgets to ensure consistency with capital policy and achievement of financial results.
• Ensure compliance with FAR, CAS, DCAA, DFARS, and other government contracting regulations.
• Oversee incurred cost submissions, provisional billing rates, indirect rate structures, and government audits.
• Support compliance with DCAA and DCMA requirements.
• Lead and develop the accounting and finance team, including performance management, mentoring, and process improvement initiatives.
• Establish scalable accounting processes and financial controls to support company growth and acquisitions.
• Support Costpoint ERP optimization and financial systems initiatives.
• Assist executive leadership with budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, and strategic planning.
• Support mergers, acquisitions, integrations, and due diligence activities as needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field from an accredited college or university
• A minimum of ten years of progressive accounting and finance experience
• A minimum of three years of leadership experience managing accounting teams
• Experience in a government contracting, defense, and manufacturing environments
• Proficiency in Costpoint ERP is required
• Strong knowledge of GAAP, FAR, CAS, cost accounting, and DCAA compliance requirements
• Experience with project accounting, indirect rate management, plant-level cost accounting, and inventory management
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, and Outlook
• Strong analytical, planning, organizational, and interpretive skills
• Excellent communication and executive presentation abilities
• High sense of personal ethics, integrity, and interpersonal effectiveness
• Must be able to obtain a U.S. Government Secret Clearance; U.S. Citizenship required

Detroit Defense offers an impressive compensation and benefits package including:

• Medical, Dental & Vision Benefits
• Company Paid Life and AD&D
• Company Paid Short Term and Long-Term Disability
• Flexible Spending & HSA Accounts
• Legal & ID Shield Services
• 401k with Company Match
• Paid Holidays
• Paid Time Off (PTO)

Why Detroit Defense:
At Detroit Defense, we deliver mission-critical solutions that enhance national security, protect the warfighter, and enable readiness through innovation, technical excellence, and end-to-end lifecycle support. 

Remaining steadfast in our core values of Trustworthy, Mission Driven, Creative, and Agile we are a complex systems integrator for the U.S. Government, Detroit Defense provides solutions to meet the technical and programmatic challenges faced by our customers. Our proven success in multi-domain cross-platform system-of-systems integration results in fielded capability for warfighters. From R&D to production, fielding, and sustainment, Detroit Defense provides services and solutions to Empower Those That protect Us.

Detroit Defense is a proud recipient of the Hire Vets Gold Medallion Award since 2022.

Detroit Defense is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including gender identity or gender expression), age, mental or physical disability, creed, ancestry, citizenship, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, medical condition, genetic trait or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.