OGD Overhead Garage Door is a premier garage door repair, installation, and replacement company serving communities across the country. We are a fully licensed and insured company offering comprehensive commercial and residential services, as well as a wide selection of products to suit any customer’s needs. We service and repair all makes and models and stock a large selection of parts in our own store.
Position Summary
The Controller is responsible for developing and implementing OGD’s accounting and financial processes and owning the Company’s general ledger. The Controller will also have a key role partnering with leadership to utilize financial information to drive profitability, cost optimization, commercial efforts, and other efficiencies. The Controller maintains strong relationships with auditors, lenders, and third-party service providers to ensure smooth operations. The position will involve significant exposure to all key areas of OGD’s business, including corporate finance / capital structure, treasury, tax, forecasting, risk management, and operations.
Key Responsibilities
Lead the Company’s first-year audit process, including opening balance sheet procedures, and manage relationships with external auditors
Ensure that effective internal controls are in place and administer compliance with GAAP and applicable federal, state and local regulatory laws and rules
Set and implement monthly, quarterly, and year-end accounting close activities
Analyze general ledger account activity, prepare, or review journal entries and perform monthly balance sheet reconciliations
Work closely with the executive team to develop and implement the annual business plan, including revenue, expense and capital spending budgets
Coordinate with appropriate third parties to ensure tax filings are completed accurately and in a timely manner
Oversee the Company’s financial technology systems ensuring that resources are optimized to support real-time, reliable data insights for key stakeholders
Participate as key stakeholder in upcoming ERP design, testing, and transition project
Proactively support the Company with recurring and ad hoc financial information and analysis to enable and ensure quality decision-making
Oversee the Company’s treasury function to enhance working capital efficiency and optimize cash management
Manage all aspects of debt covenant compliance and deliver quarterly reporting packages to lenders as required by agreements
Recruit, supervise, and mentor team of divisional accounting staff members
Lead finance and accounting post-close M&A system migration, training of local accounting staff, implementation of standard Company procedures, on-site support during transition period
Ideal Candidate Profile
Experience as a Corporate or Divisional Controller, with a minimum of [10] years of managerial and professional accounting experience in a high-performing and progressive organization
CPA, BS/BA degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or related field
Brings practical operational experience alongside in-depth understanding of accounting concepts, including but not limited to:
Percentage-of-completion and other project-based revenue recognition
Estimates and assumptions pertaining to GAAP-basis accrual accounting
Expert-level accuracy and skill with MS Excel, PowerPoint
Ideally, but not necessarily, experience supporting private equity-backed acquisition strategy through financial integration of new businesses
Transparent and effective oral and written communicator; comfortable communicating both concisely with executive audiences and in-detail with tactical audiences at all levels
Holds high ethical standards, does what is right, not what is politically expedient
Highly motivated, resourceful individual comfortable with managing multiple workstreams and deadlines simultaneously
Willing to “roll up their sleeves” and implement extremely efficient financial processes and systems while creating buy-in from the broader organization
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Strategy/Planning and Information Technology
Industries
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
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