Controller

Role and Responsibilities

• Owns and drives the month-end close calendar across all entities, ensuring deadlines are met and the close is completed accurately and on schedule.
• Issues timely and complete financial statements for each entity and on a consolidated basis.
• Maintains the general ledger and profit center accounts, ensuring all journal entries, accruals, and reconciliations are accurate and properly supported.
• Reviews and approves reconciliations and journal entries prepared by accounting staff prior to finalizing the close.
• Maintains a documented system of accounting policies, procedures, and internal controls, and ensures they are followed consistently across entities.
• Performs routine internal reviews of accounting practices and account balances to ensure accuracy and accountability.
• Collaborates with external accountant to prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual reports, and serves as the primary point of contact for external audits and reviews.
• Ensures compliance with local, state, and federal financial reporting requirements and tax filings.
• Prepares monthly reports for outside lending institutions.
• Supervises, trains, and reviews the work of accounting staff, ensuring consistent application of accounting policy across the team.
• Assists company managers in presenting monthly financial results to management.

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• BS/BA degree (MBA or MS preferred), or relevant & equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of accounting experience and fiscal oversight.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Competency using computers for a variety of tasks (Excel, Word, accounting software, etc.).
• Excellent people management skills.

FLSA Classification

Exempt