{"id":1596690,"url":"https://alion.io/job/sanmar-vp-controller","title":"VP, Controller","company":{"id":47087,"name":"SanMar","domain":"sanmar.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/sanmar","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":97,"open_postings":3,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.333,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":15,"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Finance","role_family":"Finance","seniority":"head","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Issaquah, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":275000,"max":375000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":375000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":12,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-01T16:31:13Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-01","last_verified_at":"2026-10-01T18:09:14Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"At SanMar, the work you do makes a difference.\nWhat's the Short Version?\nThe Vice President, Controller leads SanMar's finance operating platform and is accountable for the effectiveness, scalability, service quality, and integrity of accounting, AP, AR, shared services, payroll, and transactional cash-management activities. This leader will modernize the finance and accounting operating model to strengthen controls, improve service, increase automation, and build capabilities for SanMar's continued growth and increasing complexity. This executive partners closely with the Chief Financial Officer and provides leadership to the Technical Accounting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Payroll, and Banking Operations functions.\nThe Vice President, Controller also serves as the finance integration owner for acquisitions. The role provides executive leadership to the organization while preserving controller independence and direct escalation authority over accounting policy, financial reporting, close, balance-sheet integrity, reconciliations, and control matters.\nWhat Will You Be Doing?\nLead and develop a large, multifunctional Finance Operations organization with a culture of accountability, collaboration, service, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.\nEstablish operating priorities, governance, service levels, controls, and performance measures for Finance Operations.\nBuild scalable processes, systems, and leadership capabilities to support continued growth and increasing business complexity.\nProvide executive oversight to the Technical Accounting organization while maintaining a clear Controller charter and direct escalation rights for material accounting, reporting, audit, and control matters.\nEnsure timely, accurate, and well-controlled monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting processes.\nOversee balance-sheet integrity, inventory accounting, cash accounting, reconciliations, internal controls, audit support, and compliance with U.S. GAAP and company policy.\nPromote effective use of BlackLine, Oracle EPM and other finance technologies to improve close automation, quality, transparency, and accountability.\nProvide executive leadership for Accounts Payable, Credit and Accounts Receivable, Cash Application, Payroll, and Vendor and Customer Master Data.\nEstablish end-to-end ownership and improvement roadmaps for Procure-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash, Payroll, and related transaction processes.\nImprove service quality, cycle times, straight-through processing, productivity, controls, and ensure an excellent customer and vendor experience.\nMonitor DSO, aging, collections effectiveness, cash-application performance, payment performance, payroll accuracy, and other working-capital and service metrics.\nPartner with the Tax function to provide organizational support across income, sales and use, property, international, and other applicable tax matters.\nPartner with the Tax leader, CFO, legal counsel, and external advisers on planning, risk management, business initiatives, acquisitions, legal-entity matters, and international subsidiaries.\nOversee transactional banking activities, including payment execution, bank-account administration, portal access, positive pay, daily cash reporting, and related controls.\nMaintain appropriate segregation between the transaction team's cash movement and the Technical Accounting-owned bank reconciliation, cash accounting, independent review, and control-design responsibilities.\nLead cross-functional finance transformation, standardization, automation, workflow redesign, and finance-data improvement initiatives.\nPartner with Technology and business leaders on ERP, finance applications, master data, reporting, controls, and process integration.\nServe as finance integration owner for potential acquisitions, coordinating accounting, transaction services, payroll, banking, systems, working capital, and local finance workstreams.\nPartner with the Director of Technical Accounting on purchase accounting and opening-balance-sheet integrity, with Tax on cross-border structuring and compliance, and with FP&A on synergy and value-capture measurement.\nEstablish scalable finance and accounting operating models for the business and international entities, including local statutory finance capability where required.\nPerform other duties as assigned.\nComply with all policies and standards.\nWhat Are We Looking For?\nBachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field.\n12+ years of progressive finance and accounting leadership experience, including senior responsibility for multiple finance disciplines in a large, complex organization\nPrior experience as a Vice President of Finance, Controller, Chief Accounting Officer, Divisional CFO, or senior Finance Operations leader with meaningful responsibility for both accounting/control and operational finance is preferred\nDemonstrated success leading large, multifunctional teams and developing senior leaders.\nDeep knowledge of financial reporting, U.S. GAAP, accounting controls, shared services, working capital, and end-to-end operational finance processes, combined with the ability to operate at an enterprise level.\nExperience leading organizational change, process transformation, automation, and technology-enabled improvement.\nExecutive-level communication, judgment, collaboration, and change-leadership skills.\nCPA strongly preferred; MBA or other relevant advanced degree preferred.\nExperience in distribution, wholesale, manufacturing, apparel, consumer products, or another supply-chain-intensive business is preferred.\nExperience with ERP and finance technology modernization, including Microsoft Dynamics 365 or comparable enterprise platforms and driving adoption after implementation is preferred\nExperience with acquisitions, post-close integration, international operations, statutory reporting, VAT/GST, transfer pricing, or multi-entity finance operations is preferred.\nWhat's Our Offer?\nSalary Range: You`ll earn between $275,000 - $375,000 annually, depending on experience.\nBonus: This role is eligible for a scalable bonus based on company metrics.\nPaid Time Off: You`ll accrue paid time off on a bi-weekly basis based on hours worked up to 112 hours per year to start. Employees also receive 8 paid holidays and 1 paid family day off.\nAdditional Benefits:\nComprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits\n401k plan and matches $1 for $1 up to 4% of earnings, matched & vested at every pay cycle\nLife insurance\nShort/long-term disability coverage\nPaid maternity/paternity leave\nPet insurance\nWhat Should You Expect?\nHybrid: SanMar's Eastpointe office is located in Issaquah, WA in the Seattle metropolitan area. Employees are required to work in our offices Tuesday through Thursday each week and additional days may be added based on business needs. Our standard working hours are 8:00-5:00 PST. Periodic travel may be required. The employee is regularly required to sit for extended periods while working on a computer and participating in virtual and in-person meetings. Frequent use of hands for keyboarding and standard office equipment is required. Occasional standing, walking, and reaching may be needed to attend meetings or collaborate in an office setting. The role requires the ability to perform close visual work on a computer for extended periods. The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 10-15 pounds. Reasonable accommodations may be available to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.\nWhy Work at SanMar?\nOur people are at the heart of everything we do. They bring their talent, passion and dedication to work with them every day. Their hard work inspires us and gives us purpose. We love working here together.\nWhether you work in our headquarters, from your home or in one of our distribution centers across North America, we believe that investing in you is just the right thing to do. Our comprehensive benefits package is designed to support your health and well-being, life balance, career growth and (eventually) retirement.\nSanMar works with brands you already know, like Nike, The North Face and Brooks Brothers, as well as providing industry-leading private label apparel and accessories. Our people come to work excited to do their part, providing clothing that helps people feel that they’re a part of something special.\nHere’s your chance to be a part of this story. If you’re ready to work in a place where your participation matters and your growth is a priority, we’re ready for you.\nSanMar is an Equal Opportunity Employer\nWhoever you are, wherever you’re from, whoever you love or follow in faith, whatever your disability or superpower status, whichever ethnicity or gender you identify with, you are welcome at SanMar.\nSanMar participates in E-Verify.","description_format":"text","description_chars":8859,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":12,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["401k plan","Life insurance"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-01T18:09:14Z"}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":15,"reasons":["conf:6","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-02T00:18:17Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":375000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/sanmar-vp-controller","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/sanmar-vp-controller.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-02T00:18:17Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":128,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":4872,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-03T00:00:00Z"}}}