Construction Controller

About Meadows Landscapes

Meadows Landscapes is a growing commercial landscape construction and maintenance company operating across the Southeast. We are customer centric and quality obsessed, combining strong field leadership with disciplined financial management to deliver consistent results for our clients.

Meadows Landscapes operates as a commercial construction specialty subcontractor with a strong emphasis on operational discipline, production accountability, and financial transparency. We invest heavily in systems that connect field performance to real time financial insight, allowing leadership and project teams to make informed decisions quickly. As we expand into new markets and service lines, we are intentionally building the financial structure, reporting, and controls needed to support growth without sacrificing margins, culture, or accountability.

This role offers the opportunity to shape financial systems that will support the company for years to come and to grow with the organization as it expands its geographic footprint and service capabilities.

• Competitive salary plus profit sharing tied directly to company performance
• High trust, low ego leadership culture with direct access to executive leadership
• Opportunity to build scalable financial systems, not just maintain existing processes
• Meaningful operational impact across multiple markets and divisions
• Stable, well capitalized company with a clear and intentional growth strategy

This is not a back office accounting role. The Controller at Meadows Landscapes is a core member of the leadership team who owns the finance function while actively partnering with operations and executive leadership.

You will be responsible for ensuring financial accuracy and compliance, but equally important, you will help translate operational performance into financial insight that protects margins and supports smart growth. You will play a central role in strengthening financial discipline, improving forecasting, and building scalable systems that keep pace with expansion.

If you enjoy building structure in growing organizations and want real influence on how a company operates, this role is designed for you.

• Own monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes with clear timelines and accountability
• Ensure integrity of general ledger, reconciliations, and financial statements
• Prepare management financials including income statement, balance sheet, cash flow, and KPI reporting
• Establish and maintain internal controls and accounting policies

• Oversee job cost accounting, WIP schedules, and percentage of completion reporting
• Ensure accurate and timely cost capture from field production systems into accounting systems
• Partner with operations and project leadership to identify margin erosion, cost overruns, and production inefficiencies
• Support contract billing, retainage tracking, and revenue recognition compliance

• Lead rolling cash flow forecasts and working capital planning
  
  Monitor accounts receivable aging, collections effectiveness, and credit exposure
• Support banking relationships, bonding, insurance audits, and lender reporting
• Identify financial and operational risks and recommend mitigation strategies

• Own financial systems and data flow between Aspire, accounting platforms, and reporting tools
• Improve dashboards and reporting used by leadership and department heads
• Drive process improvements across AP, AR, payroll coordination, and expense management
• Support financial setup and controls for new markets, divisions, and growth initiatives

• Lead and develop accounting staff and or outsourced accounting partners as applicable
• Serve as a financial thought partner to the COO and executive leadership
• Support pricing models, bonus structures, and performance based incentive programs
• Contribute to long range planning and capital allocation discussions

• Take ownership and accountability personally
• Enjoy building structure in fast growing environments
• View finance as a partner to operations, not a policing function
• Prefer solving root problems over treating symptoms
• Want influence and collaboration, not just responsibility

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Accounting or Finance, CPA strongly preferred but not required
• Seven (7) or more years of progressive accounting experience with significant landscape, construction, or contracting exposure
• Deep understanding and expertise in job cost accounting, WIP, and percentage of completion methods
• Proven experience owning full cycle accounting and management reporting
• Strong systems mindset with the ability to improve workflows and data accuracy
• Advanced Excel skills and comfort working across integrated software platforms
• Experience with Quick Books Enterprise or Quick…