Division Controller

Location: Greensburg or Amite, Louisiana, based on assigned division

Position Type: Full-Time | Onsite

Reports To: Company President

Education Required: Bachelor's Degree

Location: Greensburg or Amite, Louisiana, based on assigned division

Position Type: Full-Time | Onsite

Reports To: Company President

Dotted-Line Reporting: Chief Financial Officer

Education Required: Bachelor's Degree

The Divisional Controller serves as the primary financial and operational business partner to the Company President, reporting directly to the President with a dotted-line relationship to the Chief Financial Officer (CFO). The position owns the assigned division's accounting and financial close, delivers accurate and timely reporting, and works closely with production, project management, and commercial leadership to improve profitability, cost performance, and working capital.

The Company President directs day-to-day priorities and leads the performance evaluation with CFO input. The President and CFO jointly participate in selection of the controller.

The CFO sets accounting policies, close requirements, reporting standards, and internal controls, and has final authority over technical accounting and financial reporting decisions. The controller has direct access to the CFO to raise reporting or control concerns.

• Participate in regular production, project, and operating reviews, with time in the shop to understand the activities driving financial results.
• Analyze labor hours against estimates, overtime, material usage, scrap, rework, subcontract costs, and overhead absorption; identify issues and recommend corrective actions.
• Explain how throughput, capacity utilization, staffing, and production delays affect profitability and cash, and provide timely updates to the President throughout the month.

• Lead divisional budgeting, rolling forecasts, financial reporting, and analysis in partnership with the President and operating leaders.
• Prepare and present divisional financial results, explaining material variances to budget, forecast, and prior periods and recommending corrective actions.
• Translate backlog, production schedules, staffing plans, and expected project margins into revenue, earnings, and cash forecasts.
• Support pricing, capital expenditures, staffing, and make-versus-buy decisions with financial analysis.

• Own and complete the divisional month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close in accordance with the corporate close calendar.
• Prepare and review journal entries, account reconciliations, accruals, and supporting schedules; resolve discrepancies promptly.
• Deliver a complete divisional close package, including the income statement, balance sheet, work-in-progress (WIP), inventory, intercompany balances, and explanations of material variances, for corporate review and consolidation.
• Maintain accurate divisional books under Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and corporate policies. Coordinate centralized processing support while retaining accountability for the completeness and accuracy of the divisional close.

• Oversee job costing, production cost reporting, budget monitoring, and forecasts of estimated costs to complete.
• Validate contract information and maintain job budgets and approved changes in accounting systems.
• Prepare and review monthly WIP schedules and revenue recognition calculations under corporate accounting policies and CFO guidance.
• Review actual and forecast job margins with project management and production; challenge unsupported…