Assistant Controller
$90,000–$110,000 year
On-siteFort Collins, Colorado, United States
Job Summary
Lead the monthly close process, including journal entries, reconciliations, and variance resolution, while preparing monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements for homebuilding and land development entities. Develop and maintain advanced Excel-based reporting models, dashboards, and analytical tools to track cash forecasts, gross margins, and operating results. Manage lender and equity draws, support debt reporting and covenant compliance, and maintain internal controls and accounting policies. Serve as a trained backup for payroll processing and assist with HR payroll-related tasks. Participate in structured cross-training with the Senior Controller to assume increasing ownership of assigned responsibilities. This role offers a defined development path with direct training as senior Finance leaders transition, providing exposure to multi-entity accounting and forecasting.
Required Qualifications
- Advanced Excel skills
- Sound judgment
- Hands-on capability
- Ability to improve reports
- Ability to dig into financial results
- Ability to solve problems
- Ability to turn complex data into useful information for business leaders
- Ability to perform and lead the monthly close process
- Ability to prepare journal entries
- Ability to perform account reconciliations
- Ability to support schedules
- Ability to conduct variance review
- Ability to resolve issues
- Ability to prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements
- Ability to prepare executive reporting
- Ability to develop, improve, and maintain Excel-based reports
- Ability to develop, improve, and maintain dashboards
- Ability to develop, improve, and maintain schedules
- Ability to develop, improve, and maintain analytical models
- Ability to ensure reports are accurate
- Ability to ensure reports are repeatable
- Ability to ensure reports are documented
- Ability to ensure reports are useful to management
- Ability to analyze cash forecasts
- Ability to analyze gross margins
- Ability to analyze budgets
- Ability to analyze forecasts
- Ability to analyze communities
- Ability to analyze projects
- Ability to analyze operating results
- Ability to explain significant changes
- Ability to explain trends
- Ability to explain risks
- Ability to explain opportunities
- Ability to use advanced Excel tools such as PivotTables
- Ability to use advanced Excel tools such as XLOOKUP or INDEX-MATCH
- Ability to use advanced Excel tools such as SUMIFS
- Ability to use advanced Excel tools such as dynamic arrays
- Ability to use advanced Excel tools such as conditional formatting
- Ability to use advanced Excel tools such as charts
- Ability to use advanced Excel tools such as Power Query
- Ability to use comparable data-transformation tools
- Ability to prepare lender and equity draws for assigned development projects
- Ability to support cash management
- Ability to support debt reporting
- Ability to support covenant reporting
- Ability to support banking requirements
- Ability to maintain and improve accounting policies
- Ability to maintain and improve procedures
- Ability to maintain and improve internal controls
- Ability to maintain and improve close checklists
- Ability to maintain and improve reporting documentation
- Ability to support annual audits
- Ability to support tax preparation
- Ability to support insurance reporting
- Ability to support Accounts Payable
- Ability to support other accounting functions as needed
- Ability to serve as a trained backup for payroll processing
- Ability to assist Human Resources with payroll-related reconciliations
- Ability to assist Human Resources with payroll-related reporting
- Ability to assist Human Resources with employee data maintenance
- Ability to perform other assigned HR administrative tasks
- Ability to maintain confidentiality
- Ability to maintain appropriate internal controls
- Ability to participate in structured cross-training with the Senior Controller
- Ability to assume increasing ownership of assigned responsibilities
- Ability to demonstrate proficiency
Desired Qualifications
- CPA
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