Controller

Vanguard Renewables•Weston, MA

10d

About The Position

Vanguard Renewables, based in Weston, Massachusetts, is a national leader in environmental services and the development of food and dairy waste-to-renewable energy projects. The Company builds, owns, and operates on-farm anaerobic digestion facilities and is continuing to scale through an extensive national expansion of its Farm Powered ® platform. It is committed to advancing decarbonization by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from farms and food waste, generating renewable energy, and supporting regenerative agriculture on partner farms. Vanguard Renewables is a portfolio company of Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), a part of BlackRock. We are seeking a Controller for the overall responsibility and leadership of the accounting and shared service operations, and to be a key member of the Finance leadership team to help design and enact the vision of the financial group as the Company scales. Reporting to the VP-Finance, and working closely with the CFO, this role will lead overall controllership responsibilities with a primary focus on managing all internal processes and procedures, consolidation and financial reporting, financial account support structure, assist with expanding the Company’ technology reporting platform in key areas, US GAAP technical assessment and responsibility, team management, and auditor responsibilities.

Requirements

10+ years of relevant experience; CPA/MBA
Takes full ownership over all work product; complete and accurate preparation of all work product for review and discussion; acute attention to detail
Preferred experience in a high growth company; entrepreneurial-driven individual comfortable developing and implementing required/new processes and procedures
Experience building and leading teams; demonstrated focus on developing employees; builds strong working relationships and has exceptional leadership skills
Ability and desire to partner with executives across all functional areas of the company
Demonstrates excellent financial and quantitative skills
Communicates effectively at all levels in the organization and across functions; has strong presentation skills; collaborates well with colleagues using adept social skills
Prepares and presents complete and accurate information at all times; takes ownership over all aspects of work product
Works independently using project management skills
Proactive learner; learns quickly with strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills
Ability to prioritize individual and team tasks based on urgency, importance, etc.

Responsibilities

Become a clear leader within the scaling Company organization, as well as within the finance group
Proactively develop and implement a vision for the finance department
Become intimately familiar with business fundamentals; proactively reach out and work directly with business functions; become thoroughly knowledgeable and well conversant with other business leaders in the organization
Proactive and effective management of team of individuals responsible for financial accounting and shared services; effective recruiting of individuals; effective coaching and mentoring of existing staff, both within the direct group as well as within the Finance group as a whole
Leveraging the effective close process developed to-date, responsible for the continued design, management, and delivery of the Company’s monthly close process and delivery and communication of financial information, including effective implementation and utilization of the Company’s new ERP
Responsible for all aspects of the timely preparation of complete and accurate financial statements on a monthly basis; effective procedures developed to manage all aspects of reporting process, including communication with CFO and executive leadership
Responsible for US GAAP technical assessments; detailed understanding of business specifics and how to then interpret/apply US GAAP requirements as applicable; drafting of position papers to outline Company’s conclusion (as consistent with US GAAP)
Responsible for developing, updating, and maintaining Policies & Procedures with respect to the organization’s fiscal compliance & control procedures; adequate reassessment of controls (and design/implementation of new, as needed) commensurate with the conversion to the Company’s new ERP system, and scaling of the organization; continually assess internal controls and make improvements
Responsible for all aspects of audit requirements; coordinate fiscal audit by independent audit firm; responsible for managing all aspects of the audit, including deliverables, audit schedule, meeting deadlines for deliverables, complete and accurate preparation of deliverables; effective communication with auditors at all times
Responsible for coordinating tax return filing process with 3rd party tax preparation firm and shareholder (LLC/Partnership)
Responsible for proactive assistance, design, and scaling of the Company’s on-going ERP implementation; become a key contributor to the ERP process
Other duties as assigned.