Controller

Hueman PE Talent Solutions•Raleigh, NC

25d

About The Position

An experienced Controller is being hired to own the accounting function for a fast-growing, acquisition-driven company. The Controller owns the close, consolidation, control environment, revenue recognition policy, and accounting standards applied across every division, while leading the corporate accounting team. Division leadership owns business results; the Controller is accountable for the integrity of the financial information underlying those results. A significant part of the role is integrating acquired businesses, each of which may have its own chart of accounts, close process, and job-recording practices, into common accounting standards and reporting. The Controller reports to the Chief Financial Officer and works regularly with the executive team, with visibility into business operations and strategy.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance.
CPA, or equivalent depth in technical accounting and external audit.
Experience owning a multi-entity close and consolidation, including entities that joined mid-period.
Experience building or rebuilding accounting policy, controls, and segregation of duties, and explaining findings and changes made.
Experience as the company-side owner of an external audit or in public accounting.
Hands-on experience with percentage-of-completion revenue recognition and job costing, including testing estimates to complete and over- or under-billings, and writing the related policy.
Experience holding finance personnel outside the reporting line to central standards.
Hands-on ERP experience; strong Excel skills sufficient for consolidation and reconciliation work.
Ability to lead a team while remaining hands-on in close details when needed.
Demonstrated use of AI in day-to-day job responsibilities.

Nice To Haves

Experience integrating acquired businesses onto a single accounting platform.
Purchase price accounting and opening balance sheet experience.
Experience leading accounting automation or software implementation, including ERP, that improved core accounting and finance processes.
Experience in a private equity-backed, acquisition-driven, or similarly fast-scaling environment.
Experience building reporting independently; Power BI is a plus.
Experience in project-based, services, environmental, or field-operations businesses.
Experience coaching a team to adopt AI in day-to-day work.

Responsibilities

Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual close calendar and ensure every entity, including entities acquired mid-period, meets it.
Own consolidated financial statements and accounting consolidation across all entities.
Set coding, reconciliation, and transaction-recording standards for Division Finance Managers.
Own the balance sheet, corporate accruals, and intercompany eliminations.
Own revenue recognition policy and the percentage-of-completion process, including preparation, review, and updating of estimates to complete.
Review and approve divisional revenue recognition, job costing, over- and under-billings, and job-level accruals.
Train Division Finance Managers on the percentage-of-completion process and hold them accountable to it.
Own the internal controls framework, including segregation of duties and approval workflows.
Write, maintain, and consistently enforce accounting policy across entities.
Coordinate the annual external audit and own audit deliverables.
Own accounting elements of quality-of-earnings and diligence requests.
Own accounting execution across billing and receivables, payables, and vendor data.
Drive process standardization and automation to scale the function with transaction volume and acquisitions.
Own accounting system configuration, chart of accounts, and master data standards.
Own treasury reporting and the rolling cash forecast.
Own accounting integration for acquired businesses, including opening balance sheets and chart-of-accounts mapping.
Bring acquired entities onto the close calendar and platform reporting standard.
Retire duplicate processes and systems introduced through acquisitions.
Own close, controls, and revenue recognition reporting for Finance leadership and use it to direct attention to areas of need.
Lead and develop the corporate accounting team, set performance expectations, allocate workload, and ensure close coverage.
Cross-train the team so close activities do not depend on a single person.
Hold Division Finance Managers to central standards without direct line authority.