Controller - WA State

LOCATION: Salt Lake City, UT
REPORTS TO: Chief Financial Officer
DIRECT REPORTS: 2 (Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable)

Emerald Auto Holdings is a growing, multi-location automotive services platform. We are seeking a highly capable, hands-on Controller to lead our accounting operations, strengthen financial controls, and build scalable processes to support continued growth.

This is a role for someone who combines strong technical accounting skills with exceptional attention to detail, sound judgment, and a high degree of personal accountability.

Our accounting infrastructure is evolving. The successful candidate will not simply inherit established processes and maintain them. They will be expected to identify gaps, build missing accounting schedules and reconciliations, establish disciplined close procedures, and take end-to-end ownership of the accounting function.

We are looking for a proactive problem-solver who anticipates needs, follows issues through resolution, and operates with minimal day-to-day direction.

• Own and execute the monthly close process, including establishing and maintaining a detailed close calendar, deliverables, and deadlines.
• Build, document, and maintain accounting schedules and supporting work papers, including accruals, prepaids, fixed assets, depreciation, leases, and other material balance sheet accounts.
• Prepare and post recurring, adjusting, and month-end journal entries, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and appropriate support.
• Perform and oversee monthly balance sheet reconciliations, investigate discrepancies, and resolve outstanding items promptly.
• Establish consistent accounting policies, procedures, and internal controls.
• Ensure the general ledger is accurate, complete, and ready for monthly financial reporting.
• Identify and correct historical accounting issues and process deficiencies.

• Own daily cash visibility, banking activities, and treasury operations.
• Develop, maintain, and continuously improve a rolling 13-week cash flow forecast based on actual expected receipts and disbursements.
• Monitor liquidity, payment timing, and working capital requirements.
• Manage bank reconciliations, cash transfers, and treasury-related controls.
• Proactively identify cash flow risks, timing issues, and opportunities to improve working capital.

• Lead and supervise two accounting team members responsible for AP and AR.
• Establish clear processes, priorities, performance expectations, and accountability.
• Oversee vendor payments, payment terms, invoice processing, and vendor account reconciliations.
• Manage AR reconciliations, customer balances, collections, and cash application.
• Ensure accounting system integrations and transaction flows are accurate and complete.
• Take ownership of unresolved issues and drive timely resolution.

• Own vendor rebate tracking, reconciliation, accruals, and collection.
• Establish controls to ensure rebates are accurately recorded and collected.
• Maintain accurate accounting records across multiple entities and locations.
• Coordinate recurring accounting-related tax filings and compliance requirements.
• Support acquisition integration, including opening balance sheet activities and the incorporation of acquired locations into established accounting processes.

• Deliver a timely, accurate, and fully reconciled monthly trial balance and supporting accounting schedules to the CFO.
• Prepare limited recurring operational and accounting reports, including cash reporting, AR/AP aging, rebate tracking, and other assigned metrics.
• Investigate variances and provide clear explanations of accounting results.
• Partner with Payroll to ensure completed payroll is accurately recorded through journal entries, accruals, and liability reconciliations.
• Respond promptly and professionally to internal and external stakeholders, proactively communicating status, issues, and resolution timelines.

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance, with substantial accounting coursework.
• 7+ years of progressive accounting experience, including meaningful ownership of month-end close and general ledger accounting.
• Strong technical accounting knowledge, including accrual accounting, balance sheet reconciliations, and journal entry preparation.
• Demonstrated experience building accounting schedules, reconciliations, and…