Corporate Controller

The main opportunity is a Corporate Controller role with Sentrimax Centrifuges in Mansfield, TX , and it is considerably broader than a traditional accounting Controller position.

At a high level

• Company: Sentrimax Centrifuges - industrial services/MRO company specializing in centrifuge repair, maintenance, rentals, parts and sales.
• Ownership: Private-equity backed. Sentrimax was acquired in March 2025 by Strive Equity Partners, with Fruition Capital involved.
• Operations: 3 locations - Mansfield, TX; Edmonton, Alberta; and Kitchener, Ontario.
• Role: Corporate Controller / senior accounting leader.
• Location: Primarily on-site in Mansfield , with some potential for partial remote work after the person is fully integrated. Travel to the Canadian locations and PE/board meetings is expected.
• Reporting to: CEO and the PE sponsor's finance lead.
• Future potential: The position could evolve into a CFO role as the company grows.

What they really want this person to do

This is a hands-on operational Controller , not simply someone overseeing the accounting department.

The person will own:

• Financial reporting Monthly/quarterly/year-end close
• Consolidated U.S. GAAP reporting
• Canadian accounting considerations
• Intercompany eliminations and multi-currency accounting
• Management reporting and KPI dashboards
• Epicor Kinetic / ERP Become the functional owner of Epicor Kinetic Financials.
• Oversee multi-site/multi-company accounting.
• Manage project accounting, job costing, WIP, revenue recognition and project margins.
• Improve systems, processes and data integrity.
• Budgeting & forecasting Annual budgets for each location and consolidated company
• Rolling P&L, balance sheet and cash-flow forecasts
• Analyze project/site profitability
• Support pricing and bid decisions
• Working capital & cash AR/collections and AP
• DSO/DPO
• Cash forecasting
• Bank/credit-line activity
• Inventory and WIP
• FX exposure between the U.S. and Canada
• Private-equity support PE reporting packages
• Lender reporting
• Board materials
• Value-creation initiatives
• Potential add-on acquisitions and integration work.

Ideal candidate

They're looking for someone with:

• 8+ years accounting/finance experience
• 3-5 years as a Controller or similar leader
• Multi-site experience
• Industrial services, field services, construction or project-based manufacturing experience
• PE-backed/highly leveraged company experience is a big plus
• Epicor Kinetic/Epicor ERP experience is strongly preferred
• Strong U.S. GAAP knowledge
• Advanced Excel/modeling skills
• Bachelor's in Accounting, Finance or related field
• CPA strongly preferred

The personality they're after

Probably just as important as the technical requirements:

Hands-on, entrepreneurial, process-oriented and comfortable getting into the weeds.

They need someone who can both lead the accounting team and personally perform individual-contributor work . They want someone who can tighten the close, improve systems/data, work directly with operations and communicate financial information to non-financial executives.