Corporate Controller
Full-time
Torrey & Gray
Controller – Enterprise Finance & Operational Excellence
Reports To: CEO
Location: Onsite
Company: Private Equity-Owned Heavy Equipment Sales and Rental Platform
Position Summary
The Controller – Enterprise Finance & Operational Excellence is a newly created leadership role responsible for driving financial standardization, enterprise reporting, operational analytics, and systems integration across a nationwide portfolio of heavy equipment rental businesses. Each operating company maintains its own accounting team and local financial leadership; this role serves as the enterprise finance leader responsible for coordinating best practices, improving visibility, and creating a scalable financial infrastructure to support growth and value creation.
The Controller will partner closely with the CEO, operating company controllers, operations leaders, fleet managers, procurement teams, and private equity stakeholders to unify financial processes, implement common performance metrics, consolidate ERP platforms, and develop actionable business intelligence that enhances decision-making.
This position is expected to function as both a strategic business partner and a hands-on leader capable of driving transformation initiatives across multiple operating companies.
Key Responsibilities
Enterprise Financial Leadership
- Establish and maintain consistent accounting policies, financial controls, and reporting standards across all operating companies.
- Coordinate and support local accounting teams while preserving accountability at the business-unit level.
- Drive standardization of month-end close, account reconciliations, fixed asset accounting, and financial reporting processes.
- Partner with business-unit finance leaders to identify and implement best practices.
- Ensure financial information is timely, accurate, and decision-useful.
ERP Consolidation & Systems Integration
- Lead the evaluation, selection, and implementation of a common ERP platform across the enterprise.
- Develop and execute a multi-year ERP consolidation roadmap encompassing three existing systems.
- Standardize chart of accounts, reporting structures, workflows, and data governance practices.
- Serve as the primary finance stakeholder for systems implementations, upgrades, and integrations.
- Build scalable processes that support future acquisitions and business growth.
Management Reporting & Business Intelligence
- Design and implement enterprise-wide dashboards and KPI reporting.
- Develop management reporting focused on:
- Equipment utilization
- Fleet productivity
- Rental revenue performance
- Return on fleet investment
- Branch profitability
- Procurement efficiency
- Maintenance costs
- Capital expenditure effectiveness
- Customer profitability
- Working capital management
- Deliver meaningful analysis and recommendations to executive leadership and private equity sponsors.
- Transform financial reporting from historical reporting to forward-looking operational decision support.
Fleet & Operational Analytics
- Partner with operations leadership to improve fleet utilization and asset deployment across the platform.
- Develop reporting that identifies underutilized assets and opportunities for fleet sharing between locations.
- Analyze equipment acquisition, disposal, and replacement strategies.
- Support enterprise procurement initiatives through spend analysis, vendor performance evaluation, and purchasing standardization.
- Assist leadership in maximizing return on invested capital across the equipment fleet.
Strategic Business Partnering
- Work closely with executive leadership to support strategic planning and growth initiatives.
- Participate in acquisition integration efforts and post-acquisition financial standardization.
- Support annual budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning processes.
- Identify opportunities to improve profitability, operational efficiency, and cash flow.
- Provide analytical support for capital allocation decisions and major investments.
Process Improvement & Internal Controls
- Establish scalable internal controls appropriate for a multi-entity private equity environment.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives throughout finance and operations.
- Reduce manual processes through automation and workflow optimization.
- Implement consistent KPI definitions and reporting methodologies across all business units.
Qualifications
Required
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
- CPA strongly preferred.
- 10+ years of progressive accounting and finance leadership experience.
- Experience in multi-entity or multi-location organizations.
- Demonstrated success leading ERP implementations or large-scale systems conversions.
- Strong financial reporting, accounting, and business analysis skills.
- Experience building management reporting and operational KPI frameworks.
- Advanced Excel and financial systems expertise.
Preferred
- Experience within equipment rental, construction services, industrial services, distribution, transportation, manufacturing, or other asset-intensive industries.
- Experience in private equity-backed organizations.
- Familiarity with fleet management systems and equipment utilization metrics.
- Experience integrating acquired businesses.
- Exposure to Power BI, Tableau, SQL, or other business intelligence tools.
Critical Success Factors
The successful candidate will:
- Create a unified financial operating model across multiple independent businesses.
- Successfully consolidate three ERP systems into a single scalable platform.
- Develop enterprise reporting that enables faster and better management decisions.
- Improve visibility into utilization, fleet performance, procurement effectiveness, and profitability.
- Build strong relationships with local accounting teams while driving standardization.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership and private equity stakeholders.
- Help transform finance from a transactional function into a strategic competitive advantage.
Compensation
Competitive base salary, annual performance bonus, long-term incentive opportunity, and comprehensive benefits package commensurate with experience.
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