Director of Accounting

Kelso Industries • Draper, UT

3d

About The Position

Kelso Industries is seeking a Director of Accounting Operations to build and lead the accounting operations function for its nationwide, private-equity-backed platform of mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and HVAC operating companies. This builder role owns the enterprise global month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close and establishes the processes, standards, controls, and team needed to produce accurate, auditable consolidated results on a public-company timeline. The role supports Kelso’s growth through acquisition and its path toward becoming a public company.

The Director will lead the close and consolidation process, design scalable record-to-report operations and SOX 404 control readiness, integrate acquired companies into common systems and close standards, and partner with finance leadership, the Corporate Controller, business systems, auditors, and operating-company teams. The role also focuses on automation and AI-enabled workflows, audit readiness, IPO readiness, and developing the corporate general ledger accounting team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• Active CPA license.
• 10+ years of progressive accounting experience, including 5+ years leading a month-end close in a complex, multi-entity environment.
• Public-company experience at an SEC registrant, a Big 4 or national public accounting firm, or both, including closing to Form 10-Q and Form 10-K timelines.
• Track record of building, rather than inheriting, a close process, reconciliation program, or accounting operations team across multiple entities or business units.
• Hands-on experience designing, documenting, or operating SOX 404 controls over the financial close.
• Hands-on experience with a close management platform such as FloQast, BlackLine, or similar.
• Strong working knowledge of US GAAP, consolidation, intercompany accounting, and balance sheet reconciliation practices.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and comfort working with large transaction data sets.
• Demonstrated use of AI tools in an accounting or finance role, focused on accelerating close and reporting work.
• Ability to work effectively in an evolving environment, balance priorities, and build alignment across corporate and operating-company teams through communication, collaboration, and influence.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex accounting, control, and close matters clearly to executive leaders, operating-company finance teams, auditors, and cross-functional stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

• IPO readiness experience, including preparing a company for its first filings or first year as a public registrant.
• NetSuite OneWorld experience, including multi-subsidiary consolidation.
• Experience in a private-equity-backed or acquisitive company, including integrating acquired entities into a common close.
• Experience in construction, specialty contracting, or another project-based industry.
• Experience building automated or AI-enabled accounting workflows, including ERP integrations and reusable prompts or agents.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end global month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close, including the close calendar, task ownership, dependencies, and daily status reporting to finance leadership.
• Establish a close process and timetable aligned with public-company reporting deadlines, including Form 10-Q and Form 10-K, defined days-to-close targets, and hard-close discipline at every entity.
• Oversee the NetSuite OneWorld consolidation close, intercompany reconciliations and eliminations, period locks, and subsidiary-level close status.
• Establish enterprise review and approval standards for journal entries, accruals, intercompany activity, and balance sheet reconciliations; review designated material or high-risk items and ensure supporting documentation meets external audit standards.
• Deliver a complete, reconciled consolidated trial balance and supporting schedules to the technical accounting and financial reporting team for SEC reporting.
• Design and maintain the enterprise close checklist in FloQast, including standardized tasks, due dates, dependencies, and preparer and reviewer responsibilities.
• Establish enterprise reconciliation standards, templates, support requirements, account risk tiers, review evidence, and sign-off expectations, achieving full reconciliation coverage across balance sheet accounts.
• Design, document, and operate the record-to-report control environment in preparation for SOX 404, including controls over close, journal entries, reconciliations, intercompany, consolidation, and completeness and accuracy of entity-produced information.
• Write accounting operations policies, close procedures, and desk-level documentation required of a public company.
• Define and report close quality metrics by entity, including days to close, reconciliation coverage, on-time sign-off, cutoff accuracy, post-close adjustments, and open item aging.
• Build a repeatable integration playbook and lead accounting integration for acquired operating companies, moving them onto NetSuite and Kelso’s close standards on a defined timeline and training local accounting teams.
• Communicate close performance, emerging risks, key judgments, and remediation priorities to finance leadership and other stakeholders.
• Partner with the Corporate Controller and business systems team to automate close activities, including journal entries, bank reconciliation matching, and NetSuite and FloQast configuration.
• Deploy AI tools and agentic workflows across the close, including reconciliation testing, flux analysis, cutoff review, and close status reporting, and lead adoption across the accounting organization.
• Design automation with appropriate controls so system-generated entries and reports are auditable and suitable for SOX 404 reliance.
• Partner with the Corporate Controller on external audit support, including PBC requests, reconciliation support, and accounting operations control evidence.
• Remediate control deficiencies and audit findings and address root causes identified through accounting quality reviews of operating companies.
• Lead accounting operations workstreams for IPO readiness, including balance sheet cleanup, historical account reconciliation, and readiness for PCAOB-standard audits.
• Build, lead, and develop the corporate general ledger accounting team, including hiring, organization design, goal setting, and performance management.
• Serve as the enterprise subject matter expert on close processes, tooling, and controls; set standards for operating-company controllers and accountants who do not report directly to the role.
• Develop training and onboarding on the global close standard for accountants across the enterprise.

Benefits

• Growth opportunities, including developing new skills, taking on challenges, and advancing your career.
• A company culture that supports employee growth, values contributions, and aims to make work fulfilling and enjoyable.
• Meaningful work with a direct contribution to outcomes.
• Competitive compensation and benefits, with perks intended to support financial security, health, and overall well-being.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director