Controller

Position Summary: 

Murray’s Cheese LLC (www.murrayscheese.com), the leading cheese retailer since 1964, is seeking a Controller. 

Murray’s Cheese LLC headquarters is located in New York City, and is a full-owned subsidiary of Kroger, supporting growing sales in sectors such as retail, wholesale, events & education, catering, and e-commerce. 

The Controller will lead company-wide finance & accounting functions which consist of but are not limited to budgeting, tax filing, insurance, financial statements, establishing financial policies, procedures, controls, audit, and reporting systems. The position requires a candidate with strong integrity, attention to detail, effective management and communications skills and an understanding of internal controls. Additionally, you will directly manage and mentor the finance & accounting team of four.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the financial reporting functions of the company
• Maintain accounting policies, procedures and internal controls for and ensure compliance with all regulatory reporting requirements
• Review and ensure financial controls and compliance with corporate policies are maintained - work with parent company to ensure any financial requests are satisfactorily resolved in a timely manner
• Lead accounting department people to carry job functions including general ledger, A/P, A/R, billing, credit card management and receipts, internal control development and implementation for separation of responsibility, tax/compliance in the areas of sales taxes, new state registrations, penalty abatement and other related tasks
• Serve on planning and policy-making committees with other core leaders
• Lead training for finance & accounting staff
• Prepare monthly management reports
• Manage the company’s budget process including performing budget to actual comparison and related analysis
• Perform financial modeling of new business proposals and the related evaluation of the related financial reporting, controls and automation necessary to successfully support such programs
• Build strong collaborative relationships with staff, management, and external resources.
• Partner with operations team to ensure inventory control processes and procedure accuracy
• Provide financial tracking over projects

Requirements:

• CPA
• 7-10 years of prior experience in corporate or public accounting
• Advanced Excel skills including pivots and lookups
• Experience with an ERP system (Netsuite preferred)

Work Perks:

• Weekly pay
• Paid vacation and sick time
• 401k company match
• 1x company sponsored life insurance
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Pretax commuter, healthcare and dependent care benefits
• Discounts on our products!

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About Us:

Murray's Cheese was born in Greenwich Village in 1962, and the heart of our business still resides in New York City with many ways to experience Murray’s locally. At the counter, our cheese experts and mongers serve thousands of neighborhood regulars, commuters, and tourists every year at our two locations—the Bleecker Street flagship retail experience, which also includes our mac & cheese counter, and our shop in Grand Central Market.

For those eager to learn more, we offer robust education and events programming and, for those looking to serve more, we provide catering of expertly crafted cheese boards and freshly made dishes. Oh, did we mention we also age our own cheese? Yeah, we do that too. We have state-of-the-art cheese caves in Long Island City.

Because we like to share, we wanted to bring our exceptional cheese to people outside of New York too. So, we made Murray’s products available online at murrayscheese.com and in-store with a curated selection of specialty cheese in more than a thousand Kroger and Kroger-owned stores nationwide (and, growing every day!). And, through our wholesale business, you might enjoy Murray’s cheese at more than 600 restaurants across the country.

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Murray’s Cheese provides equal employment opportunities to all employees/applicants and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type on the basis of race, gender, gender-identity/expression and transgender status, color, national origin, ethnicity, religion, creed, age, physical or mental disability (including gender dysphoria and being a certified medical marijuana patient), sexual orientation, marital, partnership, parental or familial status, citizenship status, pregnancy, childbirth, lactation or related medical conditions, military/veteran status, genetic information or testing (including predisposing genetic characteristics), domestic violence victim status, sexual abuse victim status, stalking victim status, caregiver status, unemployment status, consumer credit history, arrest or conviction record, or the perception that an employee has one of the above characteristics or any other consideration protected by federal, state or local laws. If contacted for an employment opportunity, please notify our HR team if you need accommodation.

E-Verify Notice:

• This employer participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. Please see the attached notice for more information.
• Este empleador participa en E-Verify y proporcionará al gobierno federal la información de su Formulario I-9 para confirmar que usted está autorizado para trabajar en los EE.UU.. Por favor, consulte el aviso adjunto para obtener más información.