Controller Construction Accounting

Overview

This Controller role is built for a hands-on construction accounting leader who wants real ownership—not a narrow slice of finance. You’ll stabilize and improve core processes (especially payroll/job cost), bring order to a disorganized environment left behind, and give the business clear, timely financial visibility.

Our client is a privately held, family-led commercial concrete construction business in the $20M–$30M range. The office team is small and tight-knit, with a straightforward, practical culture and casual business dress.

• Own day-to-day accounting operations and ensure clean, reliable financials in a construction/job-cost environment (Sage 300 CRE).
• Lead weekly payroll (including coded payroll for job costing) and keep payroll-related compliance moving (tax deposits/filings, union-related items, garnishments, reporting).
• Manage banking and cash visibility: daily review of accounts, cash flow reporting, and monthly bank reconciliations.
• Oversee AP/AR workflow to keep vendor payments, bill coding, customer billing, releases, and collections moving accurately and on time.
• Drive job cost integrity: review hours/dollars posted to jobs, monitor cost vs. billings, and support cost-to-complete and monthly job reviews.
• Handle monthly close activities and management reporting (income statement recap, comparisons, and job cost reporting).
• Supervise and develop one direct report (AP Clerk who also assists with HR) and help bring structure to processes that are currently “messy/disorganized.”

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Controller-level or senior accounting leadership experience with end-to-end responsibility (payroll, AP/AR, bank recs, month-end).
• Construction accounting understanding (job cost concepts, percent-complete/cost-to-complete reporting, and project billing mechanics).
• Comfortable being hands-on in a smaller office environment—this is not a “delegation-only” seat.
• Ability to step into a situation that needs clean-up and standardization, and calmly build order and repeatability.

• Visible impact: you’ll directly improve payroll/job-cost accuracy and the quality of financial decision-making.
• Stable, onsite team environment with a small, tight-knit office.
• Competitive base range with upside via discretionary bonus depending on company performance.

If you’re a construction accounting Controller who enjoys owning the full finance engine—payroll, job cost, cash, and clean monthly reporting, let’s connect.

Compensation:
$120,000-$150,000 per year