Job description: Controller
Summary:
This position will be responsible for month-end close, financial reporting, managing the finance and accounting departments, and job costing analysis. The candidate we are looking for must be dynamic, fast learning, and willing to jump into any task to support the company to continue to be an industry leader.
Key Responsibilities:
• Collaborate with the executive team to develop and execute financial strategies.
• Prepare annual budgets and financial forecasts for projects.
• Monitor and analyze financial performance, providing insights and recommendations.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date project financial records.
• Ensure proper allocation of project costs, including labor, materials, and subcontractors.
• Review and reconcile project budgets and actual costs regularly.
• Manage and report on the company's Work in Progress (WIP) schedule.
• Analyze WIP to assess project profitability and revenue recognition.
• Implement controls to mitigate WIP-related risks.
• Prepare and present timely financial statements, reports, and analyses to senior management and stakeholders.
• Ensure compliance with industry-specific accounting standards and regulations.
• Monitor cash flow and work closely with project managers to optimize cash management.
• Oversee accounts payable and accounts receivable processes.
• Lead and mentor a team of finance professionals, fostering a culture of excellence and accountability.
• Utilize Power BI for data integration and visualization, aiming for real-time reporting.
• Drive automation initiatives to streamline financial processes.
• Ensure timely and accurate completion of financial tasks.
Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field; CPA preferred.
• Proven experience in construction accounting, project accounting, and WIP management.
• Strong knowledge of construction industry financial standards and regulations.
• Proficiency in accounting software and Microsoft Excel.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Effective communication and leadership abilities.
Top Skills
What We Do
Absco Solutions is a best in class fire-life safety and security systems integrator. Its installed systems are information management platforms empowering first responders, facility managers, campus communities, corporations and a wide variety of organizations, to improve efficiency, reduce liability and improve operations and safety. Absco specializes in fire, access control systems, high definition network, video management, mass notification, and systems integration. Incorporated in 1977, it has a long history of excellent work, while upholding the ethical standards and values of its clients and community.
We focus on understanding your needs. We deliver solutions that balance technology, regulation, effectiveness, and productivity. Along with our manufacturing and software partners we offer best in class solutions for access control systems, CCTV and video management, mass notification, fire safety, and complete system integration.
Our industry experience enables us to address our clients' risk exposure, both long and short term, and mitigate that risk through proper planning. We do this by drawing upon the expertise and resources of our team members and assembled vendors. Absco’s project team has individuals with more than 30 years of experience in consulting, construction, program development, application, and commissioning experience. Absco Solutions has been doing system integration since before it was a term.
With our many years of successful project delivery, this highly skilled technical and construction management team provides insightful and reliable project-solving capability. Our team includes IT expertise, certified product experts, project management, and code experts to achieve our clients’ wide range of implementation needs. We provide value and service to a wide spectrum of clients, including private universities, large corporations, medical centers, distribution facilities, technical organizations, state facilities, and US Armed Forces.
