Controller, Finance & Banking, Financial Manager

Overview

Performance Engineering has opportunities in Billings, MT. Join an award-winning engineering and surveying firm as a Controller. This full-time role leads financial operations, strengthens project-level reporting and provides direct interaction with ownership to support growth. The firm has been recognized by Zweig Group as a Best Firm to Work For in 2024, 2025 and 2026, and as a Hot Firm in 2025 and 2026.

This role builds scalable systems, improves profitability and delivers insight to support confident business decisions. This is a build-and-lead opportunity for someone with strong accounting knowledge, strategic thinking and an ownership mindset in a growing project-based business.

• Make a strategic impact: Work directly with ownership and leadership to connect financial performance with business decisions, project delivery and long-term growth.
• Build systems that scale: Strengthen accounting processes, reporting systems, internal controls and financial planning across a growing firm.
• Lead beyond the numbers: Translate financial data into practical insight for project managers, executives, board reporting and affiliated business entities.
• Grow with the company: Step into a leadership role with the opportunity to continue developing toward CFO-level responsibility.

• Financial operations leadership: Lead accounting functions including AP, AR, payroll, general ledger, reconciliations and financial reporting.
• Project and operational insight: Track project performance, profitability, utilization, billing and financial trends to support better decision-making.
• Multi-entity oversight: Maintain financial oversight across Performance Engineering and related entities, ensuring consistency, accuracy and timely reporting.
• Strategic partnership: Support budgeting, forecasting, cash flow planning, KPI reporting and executive-level financial analysis.
• Compliance and risk management: Coordinate tax filings, audits, regulatory requirements, internal controls and external financial relationships.

• Position Type: Full-time, exempt
• Industry: Civil engineering, surveying, construction management and project-based professional services
• Reporting Relationship: Works directly with ownership and leadership

We are looking for a highly accountable and detail-oriented financial professional who can manage full-cycle accounting while helping leadership understand what the numbers mean for project performance, operations and future growth. The right person will be comfortable moving between day-to-day financial management and high-level strategic conversations.

• Lead accounting operations including accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, general ledger, reconciliations and close processes.
• Prepare accurate monthly and annual financial statements, including P&L, balance sheet and cash flow reporting.
• Oversee monthly bank, credit card, investment, loan and liability reconciliations.
• Maintain recurring financial oversight across affiliated entities including Performance Engineering, Canyon Creek Development Group, D&A Holdings, Performance Holdings, Performance Engineering & Consulting and Rove/PE.
• Track project profitability, utilization, budgets, billing, collections and operational financial performance.
• Partner with project managers and leadership to connect financial results to project delivery and business performance.
• Lead annual budgeting, ongoing forecasting, cash flow planning and financial analysis.
• Prepare executive, board and management reporting packages, including financial summaries, KPI reporting, variance commentary and operational insight.
• Coordinate quarterly and annual compliance needs, including payroll tax filings, SUTA, PTET, FUTA, multi-state reporting and external CPA or auditor support.
• Maintain strong internal controls, financial integrity, risk management practices and documentation standards.
• Identify opportunities to improve margins, increase efficiency, scale operations and support sustainable growth.
• High integrity, accountability and attention to detail
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to communicate financial…