Controller, Accounting, Financial Reporting

Description

The Controller is responsible for the company’s accounting operations, focusing on payroll, accounts payable, and month-end and year-end close. This role helps ensure accurate financial records, timely payments, and compliance with company policies.

Working in three ERP systems and Paylocity, the Controller manages payroll, accounts payable and receivable, job costing, inventory reconciliation, and financial reporting while supporting efficient processes and internal controls.

• Oversee payroll operations, including prevailing wage, certified payroll, reconciliations, benefits processing, and workers' compensation accruals.
• Manage accounts payable and monitor accounts receivable and collections to maintain aging targets.
• Direct month-end and year-end financial close processes and reconcile balance sheet accounts.
• Oversee job costing, project profitability, inventory valuation, and intercompany transactions.
• Investigate and resolve inventory discrepancies and ensure accurate cost reporting.
• Reconcile intercompany transactions and ensure accurate recording between business units.
• Coordinate financial audits and ensure compliance with GAAP and applicable federal, state, and local regulations.
• Prepare and distribute financial statements, management reports, inventory reports, and supporting schedules.
• Analyze financial results, costs, margins, variances, and trends, providing recommendations to leadership.
• Ensure compliance with GAAP and applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations.
• Identify and implement improvements to accounting processes, controls, reporting, systems, and operational efficiency.
• Lead and support accounting staff, establish priorities, review work for accuracy, and partner with management on financial and operational matters.

• This position primarily involves sedentary, office-based work, including prolonged sitting and extensive computer use throughout the workday.
• Requires regular movement throughout the workplace, including ascending and descending stairs.
• Requires the ability to occasionally lift, carry, or move items weighing up to 30 pounds.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, or a related field, with 6+ years of progressive accounting experience, preferably in retail, construction, agriculture, or similar industries.
• Strong knowledge of GAAP, financial reporting, internal controls, audits, account reconciliations, financial statement preparation, and month-end and year-end close processes.
• Experience with payroll, accounts payable and receivable, inventory accounting, job costing, fixed assets, sales and use tax, intercompany transactions, and regulatory compliance.
• Proven leadership experience with the ability to supervise and develop staff, manage competing priorities, and collaborate effectively with management.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Microsoft 365, and accounting systems, with strong analytical, communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and the ability to maintain confidentiality.

• Knowledge of accounting practices related to horticulture, landscaping, nursery, or agricultural operations.
• Experience working within a multi-entity or multi-division organization.
• Experience working with and reconciling financial information across multiple ERP or accounting systems.
• Experience with one or more of the following software platforms:
  Paylocity, Epicor Eagle, Asset, or SBI Grower.