Corporate Controller

Reports To: CEO

Location: Onsite

Company: Private Equity-Owned Heavy Equipment Sales and Rental Platform

The Controller – Enterprise Finance & Operational Excellence is a newly created leadership role responsible for driving financial standardization, enterprise reporting, operational analytics, and systems integration across a nationwide portfolio of heavy equipment rental businesses. Each operating company maintains its own accounting team and local financial leadership; this role serves as the enterprise finance leader responsible for coordinating best practices, improving visibility, and creating a scalable financial infrastructure to support growth and value creation.

The Controller will partner closely with the CEO, operating company controllers, operations leaders, fleet managers, procurement teams, and private equity stakeholders to unify financial processes, implement common performance metrics, consolidate ERP platforms, and develop actionable business intelligence that enhances decision-making.

This position is expected to function as both a strategic business partner and a hands‑on leader capable of driving transformation initiatives across multiple operating companies.

• Establish and maintain consistent accounting policies, financial controls, and reporting standards across all operating companies.
• Coordinate and support local accounting teams while preserving accountability at the business-unit level.
• Drive standardization of month-end close, account reconciliations, fixed asset accounting, and financial reporting processes.
• Partner with business-unit finance leaders to identify and implement best practices.
• Ensure financial information is timely, accurate, and decision-useful.

• Lead the evaluation, selection, and implementation of a common ERP platform across the enterprise.
• Develop and execute a multi-year ERP consolidation roadmap encompassing three existing systems.
• Standardize chart of accounts, reporting structures, workflows, and data governance practices.
• Serve as the primary finance stakeholder for systems implementations, upgrades, and integrations.
• Build scalable processes that support future acquisitions and business growth.
• Design and implement enterprise-wide dashboards and KPI reporting.
• Develop management reporting focused on:
• Fleet productivity
• Return on fleet investment
• Branch profitability
• Maintenance costs
• Customer profitability
• Working capital management
• Deliver meaningful analysis and recommendations to executive leadership and private equity sponsors.
• Transform financial reporting from historical reporting to forward‑looking operational decision support.

• Partner with operations leadership to improve fleet utilization and asset deployment across the platform.
• Develop reporting that identifies underutilized assets and opportunities for fleet sharing between locations.
• Analyze equipment acquisition, disposal, and replacement strategies.
• Support enterprise procurement initiatives through spend analysis, vendor performance evaluation, and purchasing standardization.
• Assist leadership in maximizing return on invested capital across the equipment fleet.

• Work closely with executive leadership to support strategic planning and growth initiatives.
• Participate in acquisition integration efforts and post-acquisition financial standardization.
• Support annual budgeting, forecasting, and long‑range planning processes.
• Identify opportunities to improve profitability, operational efficiency, and cash flow.
• Provide analytical support for capital allocation decisions and major…