Assistant Controller

AKRE & Associates; Chandler (AZ); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

AKRE & Associates is seeking an Assistant Controller to partner with the Corporate Controller and strengthen accounting operations as the business scales, ensuring GAAP-compliant financial activity.

You’ll reconcile large datasets, develop scalable processes, and collaborate with operations and field teams to translate activity into accurate general ledger entries, controls, and reporting. This is a hands-on, fast-moving role in a growth-focused team.

Qualifications

• 5–7 years of operational accounting experience.
• Strong working knowledge of U.S. GAAP.
• Advanced Excel skills and experience with large, complex workbooks.
• Ability to reconcile large datasets and identify discrepancies.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the Controller’s right hand, focusing on accounting operations and scalable processes.
• Reconcile large and complex datasets across a high-volume asset base.
• Translate operational activity into GAAP-compliant accounting entries.
• Partner with operations and field teams to understand business processes.
• Investigate discrepancies and drive issues through resolution.
• Work extensively in Excel to analyze and reconcile financial data.
• Develop clear, repeatable accounting procedures and documentation.
• Support general ledger activity, reconciliations, and financial reporting.
• Improve accounting workflows, controls, systems, and processes as the organization grows.
• Collaborate across departments to reflect operational activity in financials.

Skills

Operational accounting

GAAP

Excel

Data analysis

Process documentation

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Tools

Sage Intacct

Ramp

Job description

A high-growth organization is partnering with our recruiting firm to hire an Assistant Controller who will serve as a key partner to the Corporate Controller and play an important role in strengthening accounting operations as the business continues to scale.

This is an excellent opportunity for a hands-on accounting professional who enjoys solving complex problems, working with large volumes of data, and building processes that make an organization better. You’ll join a fun, energetic, collaborative team where accounting works closely with operations and field employees to understand the business and ensure financial activity is accurately reflected under GAAP.

What You’ll Do

• Serve as the Controller’s right hand, with a strong focus on accounting operations, financial accuracy, and scalable processes.
• Reconcile large and complex datasets across a high-volume asset base
• Translate operational and system activity into accurate, GAAP-compliant accounting.
• Partner closely with operations and field teams to understand business processes and determine the appropriate accounting treatment.
• Investigate discrepancies, identify root causes, and drive issues through resolution.
• Work extensively in Excel to analyze, organize, and reconcile large volumes of financial and operational data.
• Develop clear, repeatable accounting procedures and documentation that can scale with continued company growth.
• Support general ledger activity, reconciliations, financial reporting, and other accounting operations.
• Help improve accounting workflows, controls, systems, and processes as the organization evolves.
• Collaborate across departments to ensure accounting accurately reflects what is happening operationally in the business.

What We’re Looking For

• Approximately 5–7 years of operational accounting experience.
• Strong working knowledge of U.S. GAAP.
• Demonstrated experience reconciling large, complex datasets and identifying discrepancies.
• Advanced Excel skills with the ability to confidently navigate large and sophisticated workbooks.
• Strong accounting fundamentals and the ability to understand how operational activity flows through the general ledger.
• Highly organized and able to break complex accounting challenges into manageable, well-documented processes.
• Strong communication skills and the confidence to work directly with accounting, operations, and field teams.
• Adaptable and comfortable working in an environment where processes, systems, and accounting requirements continue to evolve.
• Collaborative, team-oriented, and willing to jump in wherever needed.
• Personable, engaged, and energized by working with a fun, fast-moving team.

Technology

Experience with any of the following is a plus:

• Sage Intacct
• Ramp

Why This Role Stands Out

This is more than a traditional Assistant Controller position. You’ll have the opportunity to work alongside the Controller, solve meaningful accounting challenges, and help build the infrastructure needed to support a rapidly expanding business.

If you enjoy getting into the details, working through complex reconciliations, improving processes, and partnering with people across an organization, this could be an exciting next step in your accounting career.