Accounting Manager

Job Description 10970

Job Description: Controller – Financial Operations

Position Summary

The Controller – Financial Operations is responsible for owning and managing the day-to-day accounting and financial reporting operations of the organization. This role ensures accurate, timely, and GAAP-compliant financials across a complex, multi-entity structure that includes construction, service, testing, and distribution businesses.

This is a hands-on accounting leadership role with clear ownership of the monthly close, internal controls, consolidations, and financial reporting. The Controller enforces accounting discipline across the organization, partners with operations leadership to surface financial truth, and builds a scalable accounting foundation to support growth.

This role is explicitly responsible for building and scaling the accounting department, including designing, documenting, and enforcing accounting processes and procedures that support consistency, accountability, and long-term operational sustainability.

In addition to accounting leadership, this role provides core financial management support to the organization, including budgeting, forecasting, KPI development, and financial performance monitoring. The Controller – Financial Operations is a member of the management team and is expected to contribute to operational planning, accountability, and decision-making through accurate financial insight and disciplined execution.

The Controller – Financial Operations reports to senior leadership and supervises the accounting team.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Close & Reporting
- Own and manage the monthly close process for all entities, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and GAAP compliance
- Prepare and review monthly financial statements, balance sheet schedules, and supporting documentation
- Establish and enforce close calendars, deadlines, and accountability
- Continuously improve close efficiency, accuracy, and timeliness

Multi-Entity Accounting & Consolidations
- Oversee the build-out and ongoing management of multi-entity consolidations, including intercompany transactions, eliminations, and reconciliations
- Maintain clean intercompany balances with documented reconciliation support
- Ensure consistent accounting policies and treatment across all entities
- Build out and implement parent entity corporate structure.

Accounting Operations & Internal Controls
- Oversee daily accounting operations including general ledger management, accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll coordination, and cash postings
- Perform and review account reconciliations, variance analysis, and balance sheet integrity reviews
- Design, implement, and enforce internal controls, accounting policies, and procedures
- Maintain audit-ready documentation and schedules at all times

Accounting Department Development & Process Design
- Design, document, and maintain standardized accounting processes and procedures across all entities
- Build and scale the accounting department structure, including role definition, staffing recommendations, and delegation of responsibilities
- Establish repeatable workflows for close, reconciliations, AP, AR, payroll coordination, and reporting
- Reduce reliance on individual knowledge by creating documented, auditable, and trainable accounting processes
- Continuously assess accounting function maturity and implement improvements aligned with company growth

Operational Finance Support
- Partner with operations leadership to ensure alignment between job cost, billing, and revenue data
- Support WIP, percent-complete, or other applicable revenue recognition methodologies
- Provide financial insight and clarity without owning project management or estimating functions

Cash & Working Capital Management
- Support cash forecasting and short-term liquidity visibility through timely and accurate reporting
- Monitor cash balances and assist leadership with working capital awareness

ERP & Systems
- Act as the accounting owner of Acumatica, including multi-company setup, financial reporting, and accounting workflows
- Identify system gaps, data integrity issues, and inefficiencies, and design standardized workflows and procedures within the ERP to support consistent execution across entities
- Support system enhancements and process improvements; major ERP redesigns or implementations are assigned separately

Leadership & Team Management
- Supervise, develop, and hold accountable accounting staff responsible for journal entries, reconciliations, AP/AR, and month-end close
- Establish clear roles, expectations, and performance standards within the accounting function
- Serve as a member of the management team, participating in leadership meetings, planning sessions, and performance reviews to provide financial insight and accountability

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