Controller - Accounting Services

American Rooter & Drain; Caldwell (ID); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

PTO

Possible equity conversation

Job summary

American Rooter & Drain is building an accounting services group and seeks its first Controller to own the monthly close across multiple entities. You will reconcile the GL to the ServiceTitan subledger each month, ensure balance-sheet integrity, and document corrections with root cause and controls.

You will also prepare the monthly reporting package and review the bookkeeper’s work for accuracy. This role offers direct access to the founders, potential equity conversations, health benefits,

Qualifications

• Own the monthly close end-to-end with a documented process.
• Reconcile GL to subledger monthly with explanation of variances.
• Maintain balance-sheet integrity across multiple entities.
• Document corrections with root-cause analysis and controls.
• Handle loan principal/interest, fixed assets, and depreciation.
• Produce monthly reporting with explanations.
• Review work of bookkeepers and ensure accuracy.
• Document processes so others can run the books.

Responsibilities

• Own the monthly close from start to finish.
• Reconcile the GL to the ServiceTitan subledger monthly.
• Ensure multi-entity balance-sheet integrity.
• Correct prior-period errors with proper entries and controls.
• Prepare monthly reporting with commentary.
• Review the bookkeeping work for accuracy.

Skills

Monthly close ownership

GL reconciliation

Multi-entity experience

ServiceTitan knowledge

Problem solving

Communication with business owners

Education

CPA preferred but not required

Tools

ServiceTitan

Job description

Controller - Accounting Services

We're building an accounting services group for a plumbing, HVAC, electrical, drain, and septic contractor. We're hiring our first Controller.

What you'd own

• The monthly close, start to finish - a documented checklist in software we build in-house
• Reconciling the general ledger to the ServiceTitan subledger every month, down to an explained variance
• Balance-sheet integrity across multiple entities and business units (trades) - no unreconciled accounts, no plugs
• Correcting prior-period errors properly: documented entries, root cause, controls so it doesn't recur
• Loan principal/interest splitting, fixed assets, depreciation
• The monthly reporting package, including a written explanation of what moved and why
• Reviewing our bookkeeper's work - you're the review layer, not the data-entry layer
• Writing it all down well enough that someone else could run it

What we're looking for

• You've owned a monthly close by yourself. Not assisted with one - owned it.
• You've cleaned up books someone else broke, and you can walk us through how you found the problem
• You've had a subledger and a GL disagree by a number that mattered, and you tracked it down
• You document as you go, because you've been on the other side of someone who didn't
• You're comfortable in software - you pull your own reports, learn new systems without a training department, and would rather report a bug than build a workaround
• You can sit across from a business owner and tell him something he doesn't want to hear, pleasantly
• Multi-entity experience
• ServiceTitan or similar field-service software is a real plus
• Trades, construction or home services background is a real plus
• CPA is welcome and not required

What we're not looking for

• Big-ERP specialists. Different job, different instincts.
• Anyone comfortable posting a plug and truing it up later.

Benefits

• $90,000–$120,000 base, depending on experience
• Target annual bonus, tied to a written scorecard - not opinion
• Health benefits, PTO
• Possible equity conversation for the right person.
• Direct access to the founders. No layers.

Schedule

Monday to Friday
8:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Why this is worth a conversation

Most controller jobs are one company, forever, and the ceiling is visible on day one. This is a company we're building. Near term you clean up and run the books of a real business heading toward a real transaction - where clean books aren't housekeeping, they're the whole valuation. Longer term, the process you build is how we onboard everyone after this, and you lead that team.

If you want to be the finance function rather than a part of one, this is that job.