Controller

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Job Description:\n\nCONTROLLER\nAllied Roofing Partners (ARP)Remote | Full-Time | ExemptTravel: Approximately 20% National TravelCompensation: $170,000–$200,000 Base Salary DOE + Performance Bonus\n\nABOUT ALLIED ROOFING PARTNERS\nAllied Roofing Partners (ARP) is one of the fastest-growing residential exterior services platforms in the United States. We partner with established roofing and exterior home improvement companies and provide the financial, operational, technology, HR, and strategic resources needed to help them continue to grow.\nARP operates a growing multi-brand, multi-entity, multi-state organization that includes residential roofing, insurance restoration, siding, gutters, and other exterior home services.\nOur continued growth is driven by a combination of organic expansion and strategic acquisitions. As new companies join the ARP portfolio, our Corporate Accounting team plays a critical role in integrating those businesses, standardizing financial processes, strengthening controls, and providing leadership with accurate and timely financial information.\nWe are seeking an experienced Controller who can help lead that effort.\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\nPOSITION SUMMARY\nThe Controller will oversee core accounting and financial reporting across the Allied Roofing Partners portfolio while playing a significant role in acquisition integration, multi-entity consolidation, percentage-of-completion accounting, job costing, financial controls, forecasting, and team development.\nThis is not a Controller position focused on maintaining a single company's accounting function.CFO, Accounting Manager, Senior Accountants, M&A and integration teams, operating company leadership, and executive management.\nThe successful candidate must be comfortable operating within a growing multi-brand environment, integrating newly acquired businesses, consolidating financial results across multiple entities, and creating consistent accounting standards and processes across the organization.\nThis individual will work closely with the \nThe Controller will also provide leadership and development to an accounting organization that includes an Accounting Manager and multiple Senior Accountants supporting ARP's operating brands.\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\nMUST-HAVE EXPERIENCE\nCandidates should have direct, hands-on experience in ALL or the majority of the following areas:\nAcquisition Integration\n\n Direct experience integrating newly acquired companies into an existing accounting and financial reporting structure\n Experience assessing acquired-company accounting processes and identifying gaps\n Ability to implement standardized accounting policies, procedures, controls, and reporting expectations following an acquisition\n Experience working with local accounting teams during post-acquisition integration\n\nMulti-Entity Accounting & Consolidations\n\n Experience managing accounting across multiple companies, brands, subsidiaries, or operating entities\n Hands-on experience preparing and/or reviewing consolidated financial statements\n Experience standardizing financial reporting across multiple entities\n Ability to manage multiple close processes and reporting deadlines simultaneously\n\nPercentage-of-Completion Accounting & Job Costing\n\n Strong understanding and practical experience with percentage-of-completion accounting\n Hands-on experience with job costing and WIP reporting\n Ability to review job-level profitability, estimated costs, margins, and revenue recognition\n Experience identifying job-costing discrepancies and working with Operations to resolve them\n\nQuickBooks\n\n Strong hands-on experience with QuickBooks Online\n Ability to work across multiple QuickBooks entities\n Experience improving accounting processes and reporting within QuickBooks environments\n\nMonth-End Close & GAAP\n\n Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP\n Experience owning and leading the monthly and year-end close process\n Strong balance sheet reconciliation and general ledger experience\n Ability to establish close calendars, deadlines, review processes, and accountability across an accounting team\n Experience preparing and reviewing accurate monthly financial statements\n\nExternal Audit Leadership\n\n Experience leading an external financial statement audit\n Ability to coordinate audit requests, supporting schedules, documentation, and communication with external auditors\n Experience ensuring accounting records and supporting documentation are audit-ready\n\nForecasting & Budgeting\n\n Experience developing and managing annual budgets and financial forecasts\n Ability to analyze actual results against budget and forecast\n Experience identifying financial trends and communicating meaningful variances to leadership\n Strong understanding of cash forecasting and financial planning\n\nTeam Leadership & Development\n\n Proven experience managing, mentoring, and developing accounting professionals\n Ability to review the work of Senior Accountants and other accounting team members\n Experience providing coaching, feedback, training, and accountability\n Ability to build stronger accounting capabilities as the organization grows\n\nInternal Controls\n\n Experience developing, implementing, and improving internal controls\n Ability to identify control weaknesses and implement appropriate solutions\n Experience developing accounting policies, procedures, and SOPs\n Strong understanding of financial risk and segregation of duties\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES\nAccounting & Financial Reporting\n\n Oversee general ledger and accounting operations across multiple ARP brands and entities\n Lead accurate and timely monthly and year-end close processes\n Prepare and review monthly financial statements and consolidated management reporting\n Ensure accounting practices comply with GAAP and established ARP accounting policies\n Review balance sheet reconciliations and ensure appropriate resolution of outstanding items\n Oversee AP, AR, cash management, and other core accounting functions\n Monitor cash balances and support short- and long-term cash forecasting\n Oversee commission accounting and processing\n Prepare monthly Financial Reporting Packages and support Monthly Operating Reviews\n Improve reporting processes and identify opportunities for automation\n\nMulti-Entity Consolidation\n\n Oversee financial reporting across ARP's growing portfolio of operating companies\n Review individual entity financial results and consolidated reporting\n Ensure consistent accounting methodology across operating companies\n Identify and resolve intercompany and consolidation issues\n Establish scalable reporting processes as additional companies join ARP\n\nPercentage-of-Completion & Job Costing\n\n Provide oversight of percentage-of-completion accounting across applicable ARP brands\n Review job costing, WIP schedules, percent-complete calculations, and revenue recognition\n Analyze job margins and identify significant variances or unusual trends\n Partner with Operations and accounting teams to improve job-cost accuracy\n Help standardize job-costing and POC processes across the organization\n\nM&A & Acquisition Integration\n\n Partner with the CFO and M&A/integration teams during acquisitions\n Assist with financial due diligence and pre-close accounting assessments\n Help transition newly acquired companies into ARP's financial reporting structure\n Implement standardized accounting policies, procedures, SOPs, and internal controls\n Support migration and standardization within QuickBooks Online and other financial systems\n Establish appropriate close processes and reporting expectations for newly acquired companies\n Work directly with local accounting teams during the integration process\n Provide training and ongoing support following acquisition\n\nBudgeting, Forecasting & Financial Analysis\n\n Lead and support annual budgeting and forecasting processes\n Analyze actual performance against budgets and forecasts\n Review KPIs, margins, job costing, backlog, cash flow, and operating performance\n Identify financial trends, risks, and opportunities\n Translate financial results into actionable information for operating and executive leadership\n Support financial dashboards and management reporting\n\nInternal Controls & Process Improvement\n\n Develop, implement, and continuously improve internal controls\n Establish standardized accounting policies and procedures across ARP brands\n Identify gaps in existing accounting processes and implement solutions\n Improve financial reporting accuracy and efficiency\n Identify opportunities to automate manual accounting processes\n Help build a scalable accounting infrastructure capable of supporting continued acquisition growth\n\nAccounting Team Leadership\n\n Provide leadership and financial oversight to an Accounting Manager and multiple Senior Accountants supporting ARP's operating brands\n Review financial schedules and accounting work for accuracy and completeness\n Establish clear expectations and accountability around close and reporting deadlines\n Coach and develop accounting team members\n Identify development opportunities and help team members expand their capabilities\n Build a strong, scalable Corporate Accounting organization capable of supporting ARP's continued growth\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\nREQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS\n\n Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field\n 7+ years of progressive accounting experience\n Previous Controller, Assistant Controller, Accounting Manager, or comparable senior accounting leadership experience\n Acquisition integration experience\n Multi-entity/multi-brand accounting experience\n Financial consolidation experience\n Percentage-of-completion accounting experience\n Strong job-costing experience\n QuickBooks Online experience\n Strong knowledge of GAAP and month-end close\n Experience leading an external financial statement audit\n Experience with budgeting and forecasting\n Experience managing and developing accounting professionals\n Experience developing and implementing internal controls\n Advanced Excel skills\n Ability to work successfully in a remote, multi-company environment\n Ability to travel nationally approximately 20% as needed\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\nHIGHLY PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS\n\n Accounting leadership experience within construction, roofing, exterior home improvement, restoration, or another project/job-cost-based industry\n Roofing industry experience is especially valuable\n Experience working within a private equity-backed organization\n Experience in a high-growth, acquisition-focused environment\n Experience integrating multiple acquisitions\n Experience building scalable accounting processes within a rapidly growing organization\n Experience working with CRM, ERP, reporting, and business intelligence platforms\n\nPrivate equity-backed experience is preferred but is NOT required.\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\nWHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE\nThe successful Controller will be someone who can move comfortably between high-level financial leadership and hands-on accounting execution.\nYou should be able to review consolidated financial results with executive leadership, lead an external audit, coach a Senior Accountant, troubleshoot a job-costing issue, improve a month-end close process, and help integrate the accounting function of a newly acquired business.\nYou will be joining an organization that is continuing to grow, which means processes and systems will continue to evolve.\nWe are looking for someone who can build structure rather than simply operate within an existing structure.\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\nCOMPENSATION & BENEFITS\nBase Salary: $170,000–$200,000 DOEAdditional Compensation: Performance Bonus\nARP offers a comprehensive benefits package, including:\n\n Medical insurance\n Dental insurance\n Vision insurance\n 401(k) with company match\n Paid Time Off\n Paid company holidays\n Career growth and advancement opportunities\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\nWHY JOIN ALLIED ROOFING PARTNERS?\nThis is an opportunity to take on a highly visible financial leadership position within a rapidly growing organization.\nAs ARP continues to acquire and integrate successful roofing and exterior home improvement companies, the Controller will have a direct impact on how we integrate businesses, develop accounting teams, strengthen internal controls, improve reporting, standardize processes, and build a scalable financial infrastructure.\nYou will work directly with executive leadership while helping shape the accounting organization needed to support ARP's next stage of growth.\nIf you have experience with acquisition integration, multi-entity accounting and consolidations, percentage-of-completion accounting, job costing, QuickBooks, GAAP financial reporting, external audits, forecasting, and building strong accounting teams, we would like to hear from you.\nApply today to join Allied Roofing Partners.