Controller, Management

Fahrenheit Advisors is seeking an experienced, hands-on Controller to lead accounting, financial reporting, systems, controls, and financial infrastructure for a growing PE-backed home services platform made up of multiple founder-led operating companies.

Reporting directly to the CEO, the Controller will serve as the senior accounting and financial leader for the organization and a key partner to the CEO, executive leadership team, private equity sponsor, and subsidiary leaders. This role is highly service-oriented. The Controller will treat subsidiaries as internal customers, building trusted relationships with founders, general managers, and local teams while providing responsive, practical, solutions-focused financial support.

The Controller will ensure accurate, timely financial reporting across the platform while building scalable accounting processes, systems, controls, and reporting tools to support organic growth and acquisition activity. The ideal candidate can introduce discipline and standardization without creating unnecessary administrative burden for operating companies.

Experience with multi-entity organizations, PE-backed businesses, ERP/software implementations, change management, inventory control, and home services companies is highly valued. Service Titan and Sage Intacct experience is strongly preferred. This position will work 2-3 days in a Clearwater, FL office and should be local to the Clearwater/Tampa area.

• Serve as the primary accounting and financial reporting partner to the CEO, executive team, Board, lenders, and PE sponsor.
• Provide timely, accurate, actionable insight into financial performance, cash flow, working capital, profitability, trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Develop a deep understanding of the financial and operational drivers of each operating company and support decision-making across the platform.
• Build the financial infrastructure needed to support continued organic and acquisition-driven growth.

• Establish corporate finance as a trusted service partner to founders, general managers, and local operating teams.
• Provide clear, useful financial information that helps subsidiary leaders understand performance and make better operating decisions.
• Communicate accounting requirements clearly, implement them thoughtfully, and minimize disruption to the operating businesses.
• Create processes that make it easier for subsidiaries to provide required information accurately and on time.
• Balance standardization, controls, and accountability with flexibility and respect for entrepreneurial, founder-led cultures.
• Act as a resource and problem-solving partner, helping acquired businesses transition into the platform’s reporting and control environment collaboratively.
• Lead monthly, quarterly, and annual close across multiple legal entities and operating companies.
• Ensure accurate consolidated financial statements, including income statement, balance sheet, cash flow, supporting schedules, intercompany eliminations, and reporting packages.
• Manage close calendar, account reconciliations, journal entries, accruals, prepaid expenses, fixed assets, intercompany activity, general ledger integrity, chart of accounts, and accounting policies.
• Develop reporting packages for CEO, executive team, Board, lenders, and PE sponsor.

• Partner with the CEO and operating leaders to improve visibility into revenue, gross margin, labor efficiency, operating expenses, EBITDA, cash flow, and other key metrics.
• Analyze actual results against budget, forecast, and prior-year performance; explain variances and connect financial results to operational drivers.

• Understand home services workflows tied to service, maintenance, installation, dispatch, inventory, technician payroll/commissions, purchasing, job costing, and field operations.
• Improve the flow of financial information between operational systems and the general ledger.
• Support optimization and integration of Service Titan and Sage Intacct, including data accuracy, controls, reconciliations, reporting,…