What are the responsibilities and job description for the Controller position at Congruex?
Job Title: CONTROLLER
Operating Unit: Gudenkauf, a Congruex Company
Department: Finance
Reports To: Gudenkauf Operating Unit General Manager, and VP of Corporate Accounting
– Congruex
Employment Status: Full-time; exempt (salaried)
Primary Location: Columbus, OH
We will determine salary based on skills and experience in relation to the function of the role, as well as equity to any other employees in the same or similar role.
Company Profile:
Networks Built Better.
Congruex is a multi-national organization that specializes in broadband network construction and engineering. We support some of the largest service providers in the United States with a footprint that extends across the nation. Our turn-key design and build solutions allow our customers to deliver more data, more bandwidth, and ultimately support more devices for their end users.
Our diverse self-perform capabilities allow us to deliver high quality telecommunications and utility solutions with efficiency as one combined end-to-end business.
Congruex is a growing collection of subsidiary operating units. Our unified vision is to be the nation’s largest end-to-end provider of network design, engineering, construction, and maintenance for broadband operators. We are One Congruex.
Our Mission & Values
It is our mission to satisfy our customers by providing the expertise, technology, and resources necessary to build better networks.
Congruex is committed to the overall health, wellness, and safety of our people. We support diversity, inclusion, and the right to live freely with mutual respect.
These values are ingrained in our core values of GRIT.
At Congruex, GRIT is an acronym for guts, reliability, improvement, and teamwork – having the GUTS to do the right thing, being RELIABLE to deliver what we promise, IMPROVING ourselves every day, and embracing TEAMWORK together as One Congruex.
Gudenkauf, a Congruex Company
Gudenkauf is a diversified telecommunications, utility and systems integration solution provider with the personnel, equipment, expertise, and experience to deliver even in the toughest and most complicated conditions. We offer a variety of services from outside plant construction, fiber optic splicing and testing, utility locating, intelligent transportation systems, gas line cathodic protection, and emergency restoration services. We have grown to service the states of Ohio, West Virginia, along with expanding into Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Virginia, and Pennsylvania.
Job Summary:
As Controller you will oversee the business unit’s daily accounting operations, including the accounting, accounts payable and accounts receivable, and payroll departments. The Controller will also help guide the business unit’s strategic financial decisions ensuring financial health of the business unit.
Job Responsibilities (Including, but not limited to):
Required Skills & Qualifications:
General
All requirements are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.
This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform other job-related duties requested by their supervisor.
Requirements are representative of minimum levels of knowledge, skills, and/or abilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbent will possess the abilities or aptitudes to perform each duty proficiently.
This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an “at-will” employment relationship.
Operating Unit: Gudenkauf, a Congruex Company
Department: Finance
Reports To: Gudenkauf Operating Unit General Manager, and VP of Corporate Accounting
– Congruex
Employment Status: Full-time; exempt (salaried)
Primary Location: Columbus, OH
We will determine salary based on skills and experience in relation to the function of the role, as well as equity to any other employees in the same or similar role.
Company Profile:
Networks Built Better.
Congruex is a multi-national organization that specializes in broadband network construction and engineering. We support some of the largest service providers in the United States with a footprint that extends across the nation. Our turn-key design and build solutions allow our customers to deliver more data, more bandwidth, and ultimately support more devices for their end users.
Our diverse self-perform capabilities allow us to deliver high quality telecommunications and utility solutions with efficiency as one combined end-to-end business.
Congruex is a growing collection of subsidiary operating units. Our unified vision is to be the nation’s largest end-to-end provider of network design, engineering, construction, and maintenance for broadband operators. We are One Congruex.
Our Mission & Values
It is our mission to satisfy our customers by providing the expertise, technology, and resources necessary to build better networks.
Congruex is committed to the overall health, wellness, and safety of our people. We support diversity, inclusion, and the right to live freely with mutual respect.
These values are ingrained in our core values of GRIT.
At Congruex, GRIT is an acronym for guts, reliability, improvement, and teamwork – having the GUTS to do the right thing, being RELIABLE to deliver what we promise, IMPROVING ourselves every day, and embracing TEAMWORK together as One Congruex.
Gudenkauf, a Congruex Company
Gudenkauf is a diversified telecommunications, utility and systems integration solution provider with the personnel, equipment, expertise, and experience to deliver even in the toughest and most complicated conditions. We offer a variety of services from outside plant construction, fiber optic splicing and testing, utility locating, intelligent transportation systems, gas line cathodic protection, and emergency restoration services. We have grown to service the states of Ohio, West Virginia, along with expanding into Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Virginia, and Pennsylvania.
Job Summary:
As Controller you will oversee the business unit’s daily accounting operations, including the accounting, accounts payable and accounts receivable, and payroll departments. The Controller will also help guide the business unit’s strategic financial decisions ensuring financial health of the business unit.
Job Responsibilities (Including, but not limited to):
- Develop and manage accurate reporting of all financial statements for the business unit.
- Manage, and when necessary, prepare a weekly financial forecast.
- Review and approve invoices to be paid, as well as reviewing accounts receivable aging reports ensuring action is being taken on past due balances.
- Oversee and when necessary, execute the posting of transactions to the general ledger including journal entries, invoices, etc.
- Manage monthly, quarterly, and year-end reconciliations of all balance sheet accounts.
- Prepare monthly financial reporting package for the corporate office including monthly financial statements.
- Perform detailed monthly review of financial statements vs. budget and prior periods to understand and explain variances and discrepancies.
- Work with General Manager and Corporate Finance team to prepare annual budget and quarterly reforecasting.
- Assist Field Operations with monthly work in progress (WIP) and provide job cost reconciliations, compile, and update for General Manager’s review.
- Verify that subcontractor invoices are billed, and that the associated customer billings are processed at a reasonable profit margin.
- Oversee implementation of new software products for both financial reporting and operations.
- Work closely with corporate implementation team to identify potential improvements necessary to properly adopt new systems.
- Support project coordinators in managing percent completion on contract payments, remaining funding available per job and any funding requirements.
- Lead the external annual financial audit process ensuring support documentation is provided in an accurate and timely fashion.
- Assist in processing year-end 401k census, W-2s, and 1099 forms.
- Ensure compliance with various jurisdictions’ tax laws and reporting requirements, including but not limited to:
- Quarterly CAT tax, monthly sales tax filings.
- Sales tax audits
- Quarterly IFTA tax preparation/filing and annual Form 2290 filing.
- Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) Contractor qualification and City of Columbus Contractor Prequalification.
- Manage Accounts Payable and Receivable Administrative Assistants.
- Attend monthly review calls with General Manager and Corporate Finance team.
- Complete ad hoc projects and assignments, as needed.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
General
- Proven experience as a controller or other similar position within construction environment accounting preferred.
- Ability to be willing to work, support, manage, and initiate change within the organization.
- Demonstrates a sense of urgency and ability to meet deadlines.
- High degree of organization, accuracy, attention to detail and confidentiality.
- Very good communication and interpersonal skills.
- High degree of problem-solving ability.
- Strong knowledge of GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) and regulations.
- Excellent knowledge of accounting and financial processes (budgeting, financial closure, reporting etc.).
- Proven experience as a controller or other similar position with experience in the construction industry preferred.
- Experience in completing and overseeing the full-cycle general ledger close process.
- Proven ability to understand the financial health of the company based on current financial reports to guide operational change where needed.
- Preferred experience in MS D365 F&O or prior experience in similar platforms.
- Extensive working knowledge of MS Office (especially Excel).
- Degree in accounting, finance or relevant field is preferred.
- Professional certification (i.e., CPA) is a plus.
All requirements are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.
This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform other job-related duties requested by their supervisor.
Requirements are representative of minimum levels of knowledge, skills, and/or abilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbent will possess the abilities or aptitudes to perform each duty proficiently.
This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an “at-will” employment relationship.
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