Corporate Controller - Nationally Scaling PE-backed Commercial Roofing Platform

Position: Corporate Controller
Reports To: Chief Financial Officer
Location: Milwaukee preferred; remote candidates are expected on-site in Milwaukee monthly to every other month
Travel: 30% to 40%, to operating entities, newly acquired companies and the Milwaukee corporate office, heaviest during acquisitions and Controller transitions
Compensation: Competitive base salary, bonus, healthcare and other total rewards

Chamberlain Advisors is conducting an executive search for Roofed Right America (RRA), a Milwaukee-based commercial roofing services platform backed by Great Range Capital since 2023. Founded in 2006, RRA partners with long-tenured regional commercial roofers, keeps each local brand and its leadership in place, and adds national resources, safety standards and technology behind them. The platform now unites five brands across nine states, including Upstate Roofing & Painting, Diamond Roofing Systems, B&M Roofing and Eagle Rivet Roof Services, and continues to grow through acquisition and an expanding national service structure. The Corporate Controller is a newly created role reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, responsible for the oversight, development and performance of RRA's entity Controllers and for accurate, consistent and timely financial reporting across every operating entity.

Core Profile: alignment with the following is required to get you in the conversation

• Construction WIP & Project Accounting Depth (the threshold qualification): You will bring hands-on experience with work-in-progress reporting and percentage-of-completion revenue in a project-based business with long project cycles; this is the single requirement that cannot be learned in the seat. Running the WIP calculation is not enough. You will understand how estimates, billings, costs and margin interact well enough to compare WIP month over month, spot the projects behind a margin swing, and explain them before anyone asks. Roofing is welcome but not required: specialty contractors, MEP and similar project-based businesses translate, while backgrounds built on one-day jobs or transactional service work do not. A candidate who can describe WIP but has never had to find out why it was wrong will not succeed here.
• Developing and Elevating a Multi-Entity Controller Team: You will lead five entity Controller seats, each covering one to three entities, and your first job is to make them better. RRA keeps the finance teams it acquires, so you will inherit uneven depth and decide, entity by entity, where to coach and where to add support. You can do the work yourself when you must, but you spend your time teaching Controllers to explain their own results so you are not running their close. You have grown people into bigger roles before and can name them. This seat is designed as a path to the Chief Financial Officer role over time; a leader who replaces rather than develops, or who prefers reviewing numbers to building people, will not succeed.
• Close, Consolidation and Numbers the CFO Can Trust: You will own month-end close timing across every entity, the consolidation, and oversight of the annual audit, and you will directly own the RRA corporate entity. Most entities close in about ten days today and the slower ones take far longer because problems surface late; your mandate is a faster, dependable close that arrives explained. You will move Controllers from reporting the score to telling the story behind it, so FP&A analyzes results instead of reworking them and cash forecasts rest on vetted data. You will act as the point person on complex accounting matters, spotting risks and opportunities early and seeing them through with audit and tax advisors. A leader who only aggregates what entities send will not succeed.
• Centralizing Shared Services Across a Growing Platform: You will have built and deployed an integrated corporate finance function across multiple entities before, and you will do it again here as the next stage of the platform. Standardized AP and customer invoicing are already in place at several entities so collections can run across them; centralized purchasing and regional Controller roles covering several entities are the next steps. You will sequence the work sensibly, getting entities in order before moving activity, and you will treat a regional roll-up as a real win rather than insisting everything come in-house. You will also understand how job data flows from the ERP into payroll and help fix job costing when it breaks. Experience confined to a single entity, or to a function that was already centralized when you arrived, does not translate.
• Post-Close Acquisition Integration: You will own the accounting side of each new acquisition once it closes: the opening balance sheet, purchase accounting with valuation support, and an audit-ready file, working with an internal resource or a third party. Pre-acquisition due diligence sits with the sponsor and outside advisors, so you may support requests but will not lead deal work. Each acquired company converts to the platform’s ERP, led locally by a regional Controller and a finance integration lead; you will hold the go-live dates, spot local decisions that will cause problems later, and step in only when needed. Expect at least one new entity in your first months and a steady cadence after that. Prior purchase-accounting experience is a strong plus; without it, the rest of your profile must be exceptional.

Core Responsibilities & Scope of Work:

Controller Leadership & Development

• Lead the Controller Team: Provide direct, solid-line leadership, coaching and performance management for RRA's entity Controllers (each currently covering one to three operating entities), who also keep a dotted line to their business unit leaders, and ensure consistent accounting policy, controls and best practices across every entity.
• Coach Through the Work: Work variances and problem entities alongside each Controller until they can find the answer themselves, and decide entity by entity whether a Controller is ready to be elevated or needs support added, then coordinate that change with the CFO and business unit leaders.
• Build the Controller Bench: Recruit, build and develop a scalable pipeline of accounting leadership talent, including regional Controller roles that cover several entities, so the bench grows ahead of RRA's acquisitions rather than behind them.
• Results That Arrive Explained: Move Controllers from reporting the numbers to explaining them, so each entity's financials show what the margin is, why it moved and which projects drove it, and the CFO no longer has to dig for the answer.

Close, Consolidation & Financial Reporting

• Corporate Entity Ownership: Directly own the accounting, financial reporting and month-end close for the RRA corporate (parent and holding company) entity.
• A Faster, Dependable Close: Own close timing across all entities through consolidation, bring the slower entities in line with the best performers, and keep a disciplined close calendar as new entities join.
• Consolidation & FP&A Partnership: Partner with FP&A on the monthly consolidation so entity results roll up accurately to the consolidated financial statements, board and lender reporting, budgets and forecasts, and so receipts and AR data feeding the weekly cash forecast are vetted and reliable.
• Annual Audit Leadership: Lead the annual audit at the consolidated level as the primary liaison to the external auditors, coordinating entity-level requests through the Controller team and keeping the platform audit-ready throughout the year.

Project Accounting, Controls & Compliance

• WIP & Percentage-of-Completion Oversight: Review entity WIP each month against prior periods and billings against cost flow, isolate the projects behind any margin swing, and teach Controllers to do the same before results reach the CFO.
• Complex & Judgmental Matters: Serve as the point of escalation for complex accounting across entities, including revenue recognition, contract and percentage-of-completion accounting, and tax-related items, spotting issues early and seeing them through to resolution with audit and tax advisors.
• Policies & Internal Controls: Establish, standardize and maintain accounting policies, procedures and internal controls across all operating entities, building on a solid existing foundation with a focus on consistency, efficiency and delegation.
• KPIs & Compliance: Monitor entity-level and consolidated KPIs, WIP reporting and cash signals, escalate trends, risks and opportunities to the CFO, act on collections when receipts lag, and ensure compliance with GAAP and all applicable local, state and federal reporting and tax requirements.

Shared Services, Systems & Continuous Improvement

• Centralized Financial Services: Design, implement and oversee centralized financial services that support all operating entities, including accounts payable, customer invoicing, collections and purchasing, structured for cross-entity support without requiring a single physical location, and treat regional roll-ups as real progress.
• Payroll & Job Cost Data: Understand how job data flows from the ERP into payroll, serve as a resource to HR, which processes payroll, and resolve job-costing errors with the entities when they occur.
• Systems & Process Improvement: Drive continuous improvement of accounting processes, systems and controls so the platform scales efficiently as entities are added, including practical use of analytics and AI tools to speed diagnosis and reporting.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Represent the accounting function on cross-functional projects, such as the regional reporting structure and systems initiatives, alongside the CFO, FP&A and Finance Systems teams (which partner closely with this role but do not report into it), and take on additional controller duties as the platform evolves.

Acquisition Accounting & Integration

• Opening Balance Sheet & Purchase Accounting: Own the accounting workstream for each new acquisition after close, including the opening balance sheet and purchase accounting under ASC 805, coordinating purchase price allocation with the deal team and outside valuation specialists and delivering an audit-ready file.
• Accounting Integration: Lead the accounting integration of newly acquired entities onto RRA's chart of accounts, accounting policies, systems and close calendar, in partnership with the Finance Systems team, a regional Controller and the finance integration lead who run the local ERP conversion.
• Integration Oversight: Hold integration go-live dates, spot local decisions that will cause problems later and raise them before go-live, and step in directly only when an integration needs it.
• Due Diligence Support: Support financial due diligence requests on prospective acquisitions as needed; diligence itself is led by the sponsor and outside advisors, so this seat focuses on what happens after close.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or a related field required; CPA or CMA strongly preferred, and valued for long-term succession to the CFO role.
• Fifteen or more years of progressively responsible accounting experience, including leadership of accounting teams across multiple business units, divisions or legal entities.
• Prior experience as a Corporate Controller, VP Controller or similar multi-entity oversight role at a company of at least $150 million in revenue, ideally in the $150 million to $300 million range.
• Experience within a rapidly growing, acquisitive, private equity-backed platform, with an understanding of how a sponsor and its lenders read the financials.
• Multi-entity, multi-state oversight experience, ideally across five or more entities; single-entity experience does not translate.
• Required construction accounting experience, including percentage-of-completion and contract accounting and hands-on WIP analysis in a project-based business with long project cycles; specialty contractor, MEP and similar backgrounds are welcome.
• Demonstrated experience building or centralizing shared accounting services across multiple entities.
• Experience with opening balance sheets, purchase accounting (ASC 805) and post-acquisition integration strongly preferred.
• Experience leading ERP conversions or system integrations across multiple entities; Acumatica experience is a plus.
• Depth in multi-entity close, consolidation and consolidated audit, with strong command of GAAP.
• Hands-on experience in organizations without a deep bench, including running an entity's close personally when needed; careers spent only inside large public companies typically do not translate.
• Proven track record recruiting, developing and leading accounting leaders and teams, including people you have promoted into larger roles.
• Strong executive presence, with the ability to influence, align and drive change across a decentralized, growing organization, and strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.
• A servant-leadership style built on transparency, teamwork, humility and discipline; a relationship builder who listens, guides and keeps confidences; and a critical thinker who asks thoughtful questions and solves problems analytically.
• Alignment with RRA's leadership principles: Strong Professional Fortitude, Strive for Win/Win, Execute with Structure & Discipline, Seek Alignment & Fit, Assist, Lead by Example and Focus on Change.
• Willingness to travel 30% to 40% to operating entities, newly acquired companies and the Milwaukee corporate office; Milwaukee-based preferred.

About Our Client
Roofed Right America serves commercial, industrial, education and healthcare clients with reroofing, roof replacement, maintenance and repair, waterproofing and architectural metal, along with painting and select residential work through its partner brands. Its model is built on partnership: the companies that join RRA keep their names, their people and their culture, and gain the capital, safety programs, systems and national reach of a larger platform, so property owners with locations across many markets can be served through one network.

Since partnering with Great Range Capital in 2023, RRA has grown from a founder-led Milwaukee roofer into a multi-brand, multi-state platform, and it is now building the corporate finance infrastructure to match: a consistent and timely close, centralized shared services and a repeatable process for integrating each new company. The Corporate Controller is the operating layer of that build, the leader who elevates the entity Controllers and gives the CFO numbers the business can rely on. For the right candidate, the role offers a seat close to the CFO and CEO, real ownership of how a growing platform's finance function is built, and a path toward the Chief Financial Officer role over time.

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