Controller

Job Description:
Manage accounting staff - Mentor/manage 2 staff accountants/clerical workers. Assign various duties, oversee work and assign new tasks as appropriate.

Accounts Payable - approve all invoicing, schedule and approve all payments. Maintain vendor relationships and establish new trade accounts if needed. Oversee monthly filing of various sales/use tax reports for multiple states.

Accounts Receivable - Review billings and monthly aged account receivable reports, involved with the collection of bad debt, including demand letters and other eventual legal maneuvers. Maintains the pyro technician and driver wage reports to facilitate data entry and validate appropriate costs.

Establish/Maintain banking relationships - Keep our banks informed of ongoing business events. File the required monthly Borrowing Base Certificates to support our credit line. Forecast and manage cash flow.

Lead month close - Record various monthly journal entries (as well as review and approve entries recorded by the accounting staff). Maintain reconciliation schedules for all balance sheet accounts, and review monthly prior to releasing statements. Produce and distribute monthly financial statements and review/analyze variances. Determine and project results against bank loan covenants.

Work with external auditors as needed - Prepare/schedule the annual review by the CPA firm. Provide (in advance of audit) trial balances for multiple entities, as well as various required supporting schedules. Determine tax obligations of individual shareholders and determine distributions as necessary.

Manage corporate tax filings various states - Respond to and file various corporate state tax returns.

Financial Controls - Develop, implement, monitor, and constantly improve financial control systems

Chart of Accounts - Maintain chart of accounts. Work with President to expand the chart of accounts as the company adjusts its structure and/or develops new lines of business.

Inventory Management -Develop annual usage report to assist with future purchasing. Maintain excel spreadsheet recapping all annual purchases and assist with review of invoicing for new receipts.

Projections and Forecasts - Work with other leaders in the organization to develop annual budget and forecasts to assist management in planning cash flow, covenant calculations, income projections and distributions.

General tasks - assist the company on various other tasks as needed.

Preferred Qualifications - minimum of 7 years of experience in accounting with 3-5 years in a financial management position in an operating company. Experience with NetSuite accounting system is a plus. A high level of expertise in Excel is required.