Experienced Waste Industry Controller - Hattiesburg, Mississippi

Responsible for

• Helping direct the financial affairs of the region in connection with regional business leaders, controller, and other corporate leaders.
• Managing monthly accounting close, financial reporting, analysis, allocation methodologies and general accounting activities.
• Consulting with RVP and managers in business areas that affect financial performance, including costs, pricing, margin analysis, bad debt review, capital expenditure, reporting and measurement.
• Performing timely and insightful analyses (e.g. AR Aging Analysis) and appraising management regarding operating results in terms of costs, budgets, trends, variances, profit improvements and cost reductions.
• Analyzing trends and deviations (actual performance to budget plan), monitoring spending, cash flow and ROI.
• Recommending course correction to enhance profitability as needed.
• Ensuring compliance in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, corporate finance policies & procedures, internal control processes and established finance reporting requirements.
• Scheduling, organizing and implementing the annual budget process; overseeing the maintenance of annual operating and capital budgets to plan.
• Providing tax, insurance and other reports required by governmental regulations.
• Reviewing, developing, analyzing, and interpreting financial and budgetary reports.
• Presents to management team for review, decision-making and action.
• Providing for accurate accounting and consolidation of regional revenues, expenditures, assets and inventory.
• Actively using financial/accounting automation tools (e.g. Solomon, Dossier) to prepare, maintain, derive and share data.
• Developing and consolidating short and long term plans for operating/capital budgets, business plans, expense forecasting, manpower plans, cost controls and fixed asset controls for the region.
• Selecting, evaluating and coaching direct reports to ensure dependable and efficient operation of the function.
• Ensuring integrity of transaction reporting to general ledger and reconciliation of balance sheets on monthly basis.
• Helping communicate with external auditors on accounting/financial matters and handling audit responses as dictated to comply with recommendations and related control matters.
• Directly handling and/or coordinating activities for a broad range of functions including transaction processing (AR, AP, Payroll), financial reporting, general accounting, fixed assets, tax, LOB statements, risk management, budgeting, financial systems.
• Supporting regional/divisional sales efforts by providing insightful profitability, proforma, pricing analyses along with quantitative packaging in support of RFP responses.
• Playing active role in merger/acquisition due diligence, data management, proforma development, and post-closing integration.
• Identifying and implementing cost reduction and profit improvement strategies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years of progressively responsible experience in financial management, preferably in the waste industry.
• CPA certification preferred.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
• Experience with financial management software such as Solomon and Dossier.