Controller - Air Comfort
Orion Group · Chicago, Illinois, United States
This role handles the daily operations of the Accounting Department. The Controller will assist in establishing proper accounting procedures and help our department reach financial reporting objectives.
People & Leadership:
- Oversee the operations and personnel of the accounting department
- Setup recurring touch points to meet with each accounting member (monthly or quarterly)
- Participation in Quarterly Managers Meetings
Accounting policies and procedures:
- Maintaining and improving internal financial controls and procedures
- Establish cross training within the accounting department so all roles and tasks have a backup
- Oversee the processes of the Accounting Department and document procedures to be electronically stored.
- Ensuring day to day accounting functions are carried out accurately and efficiently
Financial Reporting:
- Meeting the financial close deadline (currently a 5 day close)
- Calculate monthly service and construction sales commissions and prepare statements
- Prepare and enter monthly journal entries and reconcile various accounts
- Perform Work in Process reporting, related journal entries and reconciliations
- Prepare and manage Fixed Asset depreciation calculations and quarterly disposal determinations
- Track new vehicles and update leases
Inventory Management:
- Establish, document and store process & procedures
- Reconciliation to the general ledger
- Coordinate annual physical count and rotating truck counts
Reporting & KPIs:
- Attend and contribute to the Quarterly Managers Meetings
- Review of account Recons vs Budget
- Produce and provide monthly reporting to leadership on Gross Margin analysis
Project WIP Management:
- Attend project meetings bi-monthly
- Push estimated cost updates and track causes
- Push Change Order execution
- Push deposits for equipment
- Provide cost incurred vs cash collections tracking
- Margin variance analysis
- Produce and distribute monthly Project WIP drivers