Corporate Controller – San Marcos

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Prominent Environmental Services Company

Corporate Controller

About Our Company

We are a leading equipment rental company in the sanitation industry performing site services throughout Southern California. For over 25 years, we have been family owned and operated, proudly serving customers across the construction, special events, commercial, industrial, residential markets, and emergency services.

We are seeking an experienced, detail-oriented, and business-minded Corporate Controller to lead and strengthen the company’s accounting function. The Company’s CFO is planning a gradual retirement and transition out of the organization. During this transition, the CFO will remain onsite and available to provide hands-on training, guidance, and mentorship to the Corporate Controller.

Position Summary

The Corporate Controller will be responsible for the overall leadership, integrity, and effectiveness of the company’s accounting operations, financial reporting, and internal control environment. This position will oversee the accounting cycle, general ledger, month-end and year-end close, financial statement preparation, accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll accounting, fixed assets, revenue recognition, reconciliations, and other core accounting activities, that this family business will require.

Key Responsibilities

Accounting Operations & Financial Reporting

• Lead the company’s accounting function, ensuring accurate, complete, and timely recording of financial transactions across all locations, departments, and business activities.
• Manage the monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close processes, establishing clear timelines, responsibilities, review procedures, and accountability for completion.
• Establish and maintain standardized accounting policies, procedures, and practices across the organization.

Internal Controls, Compliance & Audit Readiness

• Develop, implement, and maintain effective internal controls to safeguard company assets, ensure accurate financial records, and reduce the risk of error, fraud, and unauthorized transactions.
• Establish appropriate segregation of duties, approval authorities, reconciliations, and review procedures throughout the accounting function.
• Ensure compliance with applicable accounting standards, tax requirements, regulatory obligations, contractual requirements, and company policies.
• Create reports according to outsources accounting firm’s requests.
• Create reports for ownership/partners and upper management.

Accounts Payable, Cash & Working Capital

• Oversee accounts payable operations, ensuring accurate invoice processing, appropriate expense coding, proper approvals, and timely vendor payments in accordance with agreed payment terms.
• Establish effective procedures for vendor onboarding, invoice validation, duplicate payment prevention, and resolution of vendor discrepancies.
• Maintain appropriate controls over disbursements, banking transactions, payment approvals, and other cash-related activities.
• Manage annual distributions.

Process Improvement, Systems & Technology

• Evaluate existing accounting processes and identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, automate, and improve efficiency.
• Strengthen the use of the company’s accounting and operating systems to improve transaction accuracy, financial reporting, and access to reliable information.
• Establish standardized processes for account reconciliations, journal entry preparation, financial close, billing, collections, and other recurring accounting activities.

Leadership, Team Development & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Lead, develop, and hold the accounting…