Construction Controller

Construction Controller About the Role We are an outsourced accounting and CFO firm serving construction and home service businesses with $2M–$10M in annual revenue. Our clients are owner\-operators — they build homes, remodel kitchens, install HVAC, run service crews. They are excellent at their trade and they need someone who is excellent at the numbers. That is this role. As a Construction Controller, you are the financial leader for a portfolio of client businesses. You own their entire accounting function end to end — not by delegating it, but by doing it. You close their books, run their payroll, manage their AP and AR, build their budgets, and then you sit across from the owner and tell them what the numbers actually mean and what they should do about it. **This is a hands\-on, individual contributor role.** You will not be managing a team of bookkeepers, AP clerks, or staff accountants. You are the bookkeeper, the AP clerk, the staff accountant, and the controller — and then you are the advisor. If you are looking for a role where you review other people's work, this is not it. **Client load:** You will own the full accounting function for approximately 10\-15 client businesses at any given time. What You'll Own Full\-cycle accounting execution * Run the complete monthly close for each client: bank and credit card reconciliations, balance sheet reconciliations, accruals, journal entries, and general ledger integrity. * Process accounts payable end to end through Ramp and Bill.com — vendor setup, bill capture and coding, approval routing, payment runs, and subcontractor/supplier management. * Manage accounts receivable: progress billing, draw schedules, retainage tracking, invoicing, collections follow\-up, and cash application. * Run payroll and all related compliance, including job\-costed labor allocation. * Deliver a clean, accurate, on\-time financial package every month. Job costing and construction\-specific accounting * Build and maintain cost code structures that fit each client's business, and categorize transactions to those codes accurately and consistently. * Ensure COGS is coded correctly and job\-level margin is real — not a plug. * Set up and manage **cost\-plus** billing: track actual costs against contracts, calculate and invoice markup/fee correctly, and support open\-book reviews with the client's customers. * Use **QuickBooks Online Advanced** and its project tracking tools as the core of job\-level reporting. You should know Projects, custom roles, custom fields, workflows, and Advanced reporting well. * Produce job cost reports, WIP schedules, and job profitability analysis that the owner and PMs can actually use. Systems, integrations, and data integrity * Our clients run construction and field service project management platforms alongside QBO — BuilderTrend, JobTread, Procore, Jobber, Housecall Pro, Houzz Pro, D\-Tools, ServiceTitan, and others. * You are responsible for connecting these systems to QB