Controller, Accounting, Financial Reporting

TBL Mission Critical provides electrical contracting, construction, and service and maintenance for mission-critical facilities. The Controller leads the accounting function, ensuring accurate financial reporting, reliable construction job accounting, disciplined cash management, and effective internal controls across the business.

This is a hands-on player-coach position responsible for both team performance and technical accounting. The successful candidate brings an active CPA license, strong management skills, practical construction WIP and AR/AP knowledge, and expert Quick Books Online proficiency. The Controller must be ready to independently lead the close, resolve accounting issues, and manage the team from day one.

Reporting to the Director of Operations and Head of Finance, the Controller has direct responsibility for all accounting staff and the opportunity to strengthen processes as TBL grows. The role partners with project and operations leaders to provide clear information on financial results, job margins, and cash needs.

• Own monthly, quarterly, and annual close; deliver GAAP-basis financial statements, supporting schedules, reconciliations, and a signed close checklist by the agreed deadline.
• Require and approve monthly reconciliations for cash, AR, retainage, contract assets and liabilities, AP, accrued expenses, payroll liabilities, credit cards, fixed assets, debt, and tax accounts.
• Maintain controls over cutoff, journal entries, period closing, account reviews, and the release of financial statements.
• Prepare a monthly management package covering financial statements, job margins, WIP, backlog, AR, working capital, and material variances to budget or forecast.

• Own job-cost and WIP controls covering contract values, change orders, estimated final costs, costs to date, percent complete, earned revenue, billings, retainage, and loss contracts.
• Reconcile under billings and over billings by job to Quick Books Online contract-asset and contract-liability accounts every month.
• Ensure timely, accurate allocation of labor, payroll burden, materials, subcontractors, equipment, and applicable overhead to jobs; investigate missing or miscoded costs.
• Lead monthly WIP reviews with project leadership; evaluate cost forecasts, margin changes, pending change orders, billing variances, and potential losses, applying supportable accounting treatment.
• Translate project managers’ documented estimates into supportable accounting, with operations retaining responsibility for scope, progress, and estimated costs to complete (ETC).

• Oversee AP, AR, project and service billing, cash application, payroll accounting, vendor records, fixed assets, debt, accruals, and accounting compliance; coordinate tax matters with external advisers.
• Improve billing-to-cash workflows across QBO, project systems, and customer portals. Work with operations to resolve incomplete source data, missed handoffs, rejected pay applications, disputed invoices, and collection delays.
• Prepare and maintain a weekly 13-week cash forecast and working-capital view; surface timing risks, concentration, disputed amounts, and funding decisions early.
• Establish segregation of duties and approval matrices appropriate for a lean private contractor; protect vendor setup, bank access, disbursements, credits, journal entries, payroll changes, and reconciliations.
• Coordinate external accountants, tax advisers, auditors, lenders, and sureties; provide reconciled schedules and timely support for reporting, reviews, and information requests.

• Own QBO configuration, project…