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About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field required; CPA or active CPA candidacy strongly preferred.
• 5–10 years of progressive accounting experience, including demonstrated multi-entity reporting, consolidations, allocations, and full-cycle close ownership; prior Assistant Controller, Accounting Manager, or senior-most-accountant experience preferred.
• Strong working knowledge of U.S. GAAP, intercompany accounting, and month-end/quarter-end close cycles.
• Proficiency with an ERP/accounting system (e.g., Sage Intacct, NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics, QuickBooks Enterprise) and advanced Excel skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and comfort managing competing deadlines across multiple entities simultaneously.
• Demonstrated ambition and a clear desire to grow into broader controllership responsibility — candidates should be able to point to scope they have taken on beyond their job description.

Nice To Haves

• Public accounting experience (audit or assurance) is a plus, particularly for candidates who have since moved into industry.
• Experience in a fast-paced, growth-oriented, or acquisitive company (multi-location, private equity-backed, or serial-acquirer environment) strongly preferred.
• Experience with newly acquired entity onboarding or purchase accounting is a strong plus.
• Industry experience in trucking, transportation, fleet maintenance, or field services is a plus but not required.

Responsibilities

• Own the month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close calendar across all entities — sequence tasks, assign owners, enforce deadlines, and deliver the consolidated close on schedule.
• Prepare, review, and approve journal entries for multiple legal entities, ensuring accuracy, proper support, and compliance with GAAP and internal policy.
• Own the multi-entity consolidation process, including intercompany eliminations, intercompany billing, and elimination entries across an expanding portfolio of operating companies.
• Design, maintain, and continuously refine cost and overhead allocation methodologies (labor, shared services, corporate overhead) across entities and locations.
• Own the balance sheet reconciliation process for all entities — prepare the complex reconciliations, review and sign off on those prepared by others, and drive resolution of variances and aged/open items.
• Lead integration accounting for newly acquired businesses — opening balance sheets, purchase price accounting, chart-of-accounts mapping, and onboarding each new entity into the ERP and close calendar.
• Prepare and own the consolidated monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements and management reporting packages, presenting results and variance commentary to ownership and the leadership team.
• Own and continuously strengthen internal controls, accounting policies, and close documentation as the company scales and adds locations.
• Research and document technical accounting positions (revenue recognition, leases, business combinations, capitalization) in written memos supporting the treatment applied.
• Own cash flow forecasting and daily cash reporting, fixed asset and lease accounting, and sales/use tax compliance across all entities.
• Support the annual budget and periodic reforecast process, building entity- and location-level budgets and reporting actual-to-budget variances by shop.
• Serve as the primary day-to-day contact for external audit and tax preparation, and own lender/banking compliance reporting, borrowing base submissions, and debt covenant calculations.
• Provide day-to-day direction, review, and mentorship to staff accounting and AP/AR personnel, with scope to grow into direct supervision as the team expands.
• Identify and drive process improvements and automation opportunities as transaction volume and entity count grow.
• Serve as functional owner of the ERP for accounting — chart of accounts governance, new-entity and new-location setup, user permissions, and reporting structures.