OGD - Corporate Controller

Sterling Group - Fort Worth, TX

Full-time - Senior

Fort Worth, TX

Accommodation

About the position

The Corporate Controller at OGD Overhead Garage Door is a pivotal role responsible for developing and implementing the company's accounting and financial processes while owning the general ledger. This position is crucial for partnering with leadership to leverage financial information to drive profitability, optimize costs, and enhance commercial efforts. The Controller will maintain strong relationships with auditors, lenders, and third-party service providers to ensure smooth operations across the organization. This role offers significant exposure to all key areas of OGD's business, including corporate finance, capital structure, treasury, tax, forecasting, risk management, and operations. In this role, the Controller will lead the company's first-year audit process, managing relationships with external auditors and ensuring that effective internal controls are in place. Compliance with GAAP and applicable federal, state, and local regulatory laws is a critical aspect of this position. The Controller will 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. Collaboration with the executive team is essential for developing and implementing the annual business plan, which includes revenue, expense, and capital spending budgets. The Controller will coordinate with third parties to ensure accurate and timely tax filings and oversee the company's financial technology systems to support real-time, reliable data insights for key stakeholders. Additionally, the Controller will participate as a key stakeholder in upcoming ERP design, testing, and transition projects, proactively supporting the company with recurring and ad hoc financial information and analysis to facilitate quality decision-making. The role also involves overseeing the company's treasury function to enhance working capital efficiency and optimize cash management, managing all aspects of debt covenant compliance, and delivering quarterly reporting packages to lenders as required. The Controller will recruit, supervise, and mentor a team of divisional accounting staff members and lead finance and accounting post-close M&A system migration, training local accounting staff, and implementing standard company procedures during the transition period.

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.

Requirements

• 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, Inventory management, costing methodologies, Purchase price allocation, opening balance sheet procedures, Estimates and assumptions pertaining to GAAP-basis accrual accounting.
• Expert-level accuracy and skill with MS Excel, PowerPoint.
• 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.

Nice-to-haves

• Ideally, but not necessarily, experience supporting private equity-backed acquisition strategy through financial integration of new businesses.