Assistant Controller

Essential Functions:

General Ledger
Financial Statements:

▪ Review, analyze, modify and approve.
▪ View/print financial statements for personal review.
▪ Verify all changes completed and submitted by due date from various operational managers and coordinate with Regional Controller.
▪ Provide verbal or written explanations for moderate-large variances from Base Line Plan

Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable
▪ Ensure through direct communication with operational managers/staff proper/correct coding for accuracy. Provide training as necessary.
▪ Ensure through direct communication with operational managers/staff that vendor invoices are input or accrued in the correct reporting period. Provide training as necessary.
▪ Monitor ETS/Workday (AP) system to ensure rejected invoices are resolved.
▪ Review credit and debit adjustments in the billing system.
▪ Review A/R aging reports and investigate anomalies.

Fixed Assets
▪ Review cost from general ledger to detail.
▪ Ensure capital requisitions are generated correctly and provide training as needed.
▪ Run reports and evaluate as needed.
▪ Ensure compliance with asset disposal procedures.
▪ Ensure capital is accrued properly at year end.

Audit
▪ Perform audit testing as requested by Auditors or directed by the Regional Controller
▪ Review Corporate Internal Audit Reports on a timely basis.
▪ Identify recurring issues and provide training as needed.

Budgeting/Forecasting
▪ Assist operational leaders in setting time frames, reviewing, consolidating, modifying, and completing annual, quarterly, monthly budgets or forecasts.
▪ Participate in the completion of budgets (capital and financial) and forecasts in accordance with the corporate deadlines.

Acquisitions/Divestitures/Swaps/Municipal and other Bids
▪ Participate in the review, analysis, due diligence, pro-forma’s, for any region related acquisition, divestiture, or swap as directed by the Regional Controller.
▪ Partner with managers or other Executives, or individually as directed, to negotiate contracts, and attend to financial and operational matters as requested/required.
▪ Transition new acquisitions into existing branches or establish new branches, as needed.
▪ Participate in the preparation, review, presentation, and submittal of bids as directed.
▪ Schedule training of operational staff as needed.
▪ Schedule and coordinate meetings with department heads to transition the acquisition or divestiture process.

Pricing
▪ Ensure through direct communication with operational managers/staff pricing for all services and equipment is established and reviewed routinely to reflect cost of providing equipment or service and desired margin.
▪ As directed, implement price adjustments as required to meet Branch, Region and Corporate objectives.

Additional Responsibilities:
• Assist in conformance with applicable federal, state and local laws, regulations, ordinances and other orders and to all company policies, procedures and directives from supervisors.
• Assist other regional controllers from time to time, as directed.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as required or requested by management.

Education, Training, Experience and Licensing/Certification Requirements:
• Candidate holds or is actively pursuing a CPA designation.
• Two (2) to three (3) years of experience in the accounting/finance field in a medium-to-large business environment.
• Experience in the waste industry is preferred but not required.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
• Possess excellent leadership, presentation, negotiation, analytical and communication skills.
• Ability to focus on details and solve problems.
• Ability to work alone or work well with others.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Not a cube accountant role, focus is on operational improvement, you will be in the field working with management as needed.
• Very strong Personal Computer skills with Microsoft Office products including Excel, Power Point, Outlook, Word, and Access. Microsoft Excel skills must be above average to highly skilled.

Physical/Mental Demands:
• Ability to travel to and walk landfills, transfer Stations, material recycling facilities, and hauling facilities.
• Ability to make multiple presentations at various Management Levels inside and outside of the Company.

Working Conditions:
• Work in an indoor office environment 90-95% of the time.
• Minimum travel (3-5 nights a quarter)

Pay Range: $90k - $110k/annum