Controller

Oak Electric Service; Waterford Charter Township (MI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Oak Electric Service seeks a Corporate Controller to own the monthly close, controls, and technical accounting across four entities. You will run a clean, multi-entity close and build a centralized shared services accounting function, directing the work across teams.

You will lead a remote accounting team delivering AP/AR/reconciliation and job-cost support while owning the technical accounting judgments, month-end close, and audit relationships.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive accounting/controllership experience with multi-entity close ownership.
• Experience leading a distributed accounting team and maintaining controls.
• Strong technical accounting foundation and audit coordination.

Responsibilities

• Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual consolidated close across four entities.
• Lead a remote Shared Services team handling AP/AR/reconciliation and costing.
• Ensure accuracy of consolidated financial statements and management reporting.
• Standardize chart of accounts and close processes across entities with differing volumes.
• Build and scale a centralized shared services model and cost reporting.
• Partner with Operations to produce clean cost data and actionable insights.
• Maintain internal controls and support covenant reporting with CFO.

Skills

Multi-entity close ownership

People management

Technical accounting

Financial reporting

Cross-functional collaboration

Process improvement

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance

CPA or CMA a plus

Tools

Job costing experience

Job description

We are seeking a Corporate Controller to own the monthly close, controls, and technical accounting across four-entities. This role will not only run a clean multi-entity close, but who can build and manage a centralized shared services accounting function — directing the work, not just approving that it happens.

You will lead a remote accounting team across the operating entities that together delivers AP, AR, reconciliation, and job-cost support, while personally owning the technical accounting judgment, month-end close, and audit relationships that require an experienced owner.

Duties

Consolidated Close & Technical Accounting

• Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual consolidated close process across all 4 operating entities
• Ensure timely, accurate consolidated financial statements and management reporting
• Standardize chart of accounts, close processes, and reporting cadence across entities with meaningfully different transaction volume and complexity
• Serve as primary liaison to external auditors and tax advisors on annual audits and filings
• Personally review and quality-control the shared services team's output before it flows into platform reporting

Shared Services & Team Management

• Directly manage the Shared Services Lead and, through them, the AP/AR/reconciliation team
• Actively manage the team's performance, quality, and capacity — setting clear workflows, catching errors before they become reporting problems, and scaling the team as volume grows
• Design and continuously improve job-costing processes appropriate to each entity's actual complexity, rather than applying a one-size-fits-all process across very different businesses
• Build job-level cost reporting for the operating businesses, partnering with Operations and leveraging ongoing improvements in the field operating system that feed the accounting records
• Standardize and improve percentage‑of‑completion (POC) accounting for the platform's project‑based entities
• Build the centralized shared services model, consolidating high‑volume, routine transactional processing onto a common platform

Controls & Compliance

• Own internal controls and financial risk management across a distributed, multi-entity structure
• Support covenant compliance reporting in partnership with the CFO
• Ensure consistency in accounting policy and controls across all entities, including newly acquired businesses
• Bring each entity's controls and processes up to a common platform standard, in partnership with entity leadership

Team Development

• Directly manage, coach, and develop the accounting team
• Build a bench that can scale as the platform adds entities through M&A, without proportional headcount growth

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive accounting/controllership experience, including owning the close across multiple entities and leading a distributed accounting team
• Direct experience in a PE-backed or multi-entity/multi‑state operating environment strongly preferred
• Demonstrated experience building, standardizing, and quality‑controlling a remote or multi‑site accounting team
• Comfort working across businesses of meaningfully different complexity and transaction volume within the same reporting structure
• Strong technical accounting foundation; Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance required; CPA or CMA a plus
• Experience with job costing in a project‑based or field services business is a significant plus
• Hands‑on experience producing reliable, job‑level financial detail in a non‑ERP environment, where an operational or field system feeds the accounting records
• A proven partner to Operations — able to work hand‑in‑hand with field and ops leaders to produce clean, usable cost data