Controller- Construction and Development
Controller- Construction
Location: Fairfax, VACompetitive Compensation and Benefits Program
Salary: $175,000-$225,000 (Salary commensurate with experience)
Every finished building starts with good numbers behind it. Our client, a well-established commercial construction company that's still growing, is looking for a Controller to be the person who makes those numbers reliable, timely, and useful. In this role, you will be the company's top accounting leader. You'd work closely with the executive leadership team and have the trust and authority to shape how finance and accounting operation runs as the business grows.
Position Overview:
The company has a healthy pipeline, a growing project portfolio, and leaders who see finance as a real partner. What it needs now is a hands-on Controller who can tighten the core, build for scale, and help leadership make better decisions on every job and across the whole business.
In practice, that means you will:
- Make the close something leadership can count on: accurate, on time, and easy to understand.
- Give project managers and executives a clear view of job performance, from cost and margin to billing position and backlog.
- Be the go-to contact for auditors, lenders, bonding partners, and tax advisors.
- Help guide the company's growth, including new entities, new markets, and possible acquisitions.
- Lead and mentor a capable accounting team, and improve the systems and processes they use every day.
- Qualified candidates should have:6-10 years of progressive accounting experience, with some time in a leadership role
- Prior experience in public accounting serving the construction services sector
- A background in commercial construction or a similar project-driven industry
- Strong GAAP, revenue recognition, and multi-state tax knowledge
- Hands-on experience preparing and maintaining monthly WIP (work-in-progress) schedules, including percentage-of-completion revenue recognition under ASC 606.Experience with a construction ERP such as Viewpoint, Sage, CMiC, or NetSuite
- A degree in accounting or finance (a CPA, CMA, or Master's is a plus)