Corporate Controller

About Us

TEC Equipment, headquartered in Portland, Oregon, operates 30+ locations from Seattle to San Diego and the Midwest, serving thousands of customers across Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona, Nebraska, Iowa, and South Dakota. We feature Mack and Volvo heavy-duty trucks, Hino and Isuzu medium-duty trucks, Stoughton trailers, and Cottrell auto transport trailers. Our inventory includes new Mack and Volvo heavy-duty trucks and all makes of used trucks. TEC offers a full-service lineup: quality parts, state-of-the-art service, collision centers, fuel, leasing/rental, financing, and insurance. Our locations are authorized service centers for Mack, Volvo, Cummins, Meritor, Eaton, and Fuller warranties, providing one-stop shopping for all trucking-related needs.

Overview

The Corporate Controller is a senior finance leader at TEC Equipment, reporting to the Chief Financial Officer and based at the Portland, Oregon Corporate Headquarters. TEC has grown from $250M to $1B in the past decade and aims to double or triple in scale over the next 10 to 15 years. The Controller owns the day-to-day financial and accounting operations that enable this growth while building the discipline, controls, and reporting infrastructure required at 2x-3x scale. This role partners with the CFO and operating business to ensure financial discipline, translate operational reality into accurate financial results, and build a scalable accounting function. The ideal candidate combines deep technical mastery of GAAP, close cycle, controls, and audit with leadership skills to drive change through systems and process transitions, including the ongoing Proceed ERP implementation.

Responsibilities

• Own the day-to-day accounting operations including General Ledger, Fixed Asset, Inventory, Payroll, and Accounts Payable and Receivable, ensuring accuracy, discipline, and timely delivery across every entity in TEC's consolidated structure.
• Lead the monthly, quarterly, and annual close cycles, delivering accurate financial results on committed timelines while continuously improving the close cycle for 2x and 3x scale.
• Deliver high-quality financial and accounting services to internal and external stakeholders, including Thompson family ownership, the Executive Leadership Team, lenders, auditors, and operating leaders across all business units.
• Partner across the enterprise as an active contributor to business decisions, not as a downstream service provider.
• Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual reserve analysis using rigorous techniques to evaluate risk and ensure compliance with US GAAP.
• Develop and maintain critical accounting policies, procedures, and templates to support clean audit outcomes and scalable processes.
• Determine the accounting treatment for material transactions in partnership with the CFO and maintain deep working knowledge of US GAAP and financial reporting standards.
• Lead the Annual External Audit process end-to-end, delivering clean, timely audit outcomes and maintaining a strong relationship with the audit firm.
• Own external financial reporting, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and timely delivery, and contribute to reporting formats that translate financial results into clear, decision-oriented information.
• Develop and manage internal financial reporting aligned with operational needs, delivering timely, actionable information to business unit leaders and enterprise partners.
• Analyze financial information and provide recommendations to leadership on opportunities to improve profitability, manage risk, and support growth.
• Own the Corporate Accounting P&L, including the accounting function's operating costs, and manage cost discipline as the enterprise scales.
• Own quarterly debt covenant compliance reporting and forward-looking covenant forecasting, partnering closely with the CFO on lender-facing reporting and covenant amendment processes.
• Partner with the CFO on monthly cash forecasting and prior-month forecast variance analysis to build cash discipline for a capital-intensive business.
• Develop and maintain internal controls to ensure accuracy and compliance with US GAAP and TEC's internal policies, building a control environment appropriate for a $1B+ enterprise scaling to 2x-3x.
• Own the accounting integrity of physical inventory across truck sales, parts, trailer sales, and lease and rental fleets, leading periodic inventory validation processes.
• Partner with the CFO and operating leaders to maintain appropriate segregation of duties across all financial transactions and escalate financial risk matters to the Thompson Family Council when warranted.
• Own the accounting function's engagement with the Proceed ERP implementation through go-live (November 17, 2026) and the 90-day post-implementation stabilization period.
• Lead the accounting side of ongoing systems evolution, including chart of accounts, close cycle, financial reporting, controls, and integrations.
• Drive process improvement across the accounting function, eliminating manual workarounds, single-person dependencies, and scale constraints.
• Lead change management within the accounting team through systems transitions, workflow changes, and process improvements.
• Partner with the CIO and enterprise IT function on systems architecture decisions affecting financial reporting integrity.
• Serve as the Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) for a team of 25+ accounting staff, owning team structure, roles, individual development, performance management, and succession depth.
• Partner across the enterprise as an equal contributor, building relationships with the CIO, HR leadership, Legal, and operating business unit leaders.
• Coordinate cross-functional initiatives involving the accounting function and influence team members and enterprise partners to deliver on shared commitments.
• Support continuous improvement in process and controls using structured problem-solving techniques.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related discipline; CPA preferred.
• Minimum 10+ years of progressive accounting experience, with at least 5+ years in a Controller or senior accounting leadership role at a company of comparable scale ($500M – $2B revenue).
• Prior Controller experience at a privately-held or family-owned company strongly preferred.
• Experience with capital-intensive businesses, including dealership, leasing, equipment finance, industrial distribution, or asset-heavy manufacturing preferred.
• Demonstrated experience leading through ERP implementation (as accounting lead, project sponsor, or finance workstream owner) required.
• Track record of leading accounting teams through systems transitions and change strongly preferred.
• Direct experience with covenant compliance reporting and active multi-lender banking relationships preferred.
• Team leadership and direct supervisory experience with teams of 20+ required; track record of building bench strength and developing team members into more senior roles preferred.
• Deep knowledge of US GAAP, including general accounting, reserve analysis, revenue recognition, lease accounting, and consolidated reporting across multiple entities.
• Mastery of best-practice close cycle discipline, controls, and audit management at scale.
• Working knowledge of inventory accounting in a capital-intensive business, including aging analysis, impairment testing, write-down analysis, and reserve methodology.
• Ability to hold the accounting seat's voice on inventory matters against operational pressure.
• Working knowledge of debt covenant compliance reporting, forward-looking covenant forecasting, and lender-facing communication.