Assistant Controller

This role serves as a key member of the finance function, providing leadership across technical accounting, financial reporting, and the monthly close. Reporting to the CFO, the Senior Accounting Manager is responsible for maintaining a high-integrity accounting environment that supports a growing and increasingly complex business. The role leads the close process, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and clarity in financial reporting, while overseeing and developing a team of accounting professionals. It also serves as a primary technical accounting resource, guiding complex and non-routine transactions and ensuring alignment with stakeholder expectations in a private equity-owned environment. In addition, this role strengthens execution by improving existing processes, reinforcing controls, and promoting accountability and continuous improvement, while partnering across the organization to support consistent and well-documented financial reporting.

Financial Reporting & Audit Leadership

*Provide leadership and accountability for external audits, including the annual financial statement audit, FAR audit, and 401(k) audit

*Oversee the integrity and readiness of financial reporting for internal and external stakeholders, including private equity ownership and lenders

*Serve as a primary point of contact for auditors, ensuring timely coordination, clear communication, and resolution of complex matters

*Anticipate reporting and documentation needs and ensure the organization is prepared to meet them

Technical Accounting & Complex Transactions

*Serve as a primary resource on US GAAP, providing guidance on complex and non-routine transactions

*Lead the accounting approach for debt, equity, and acquisition activity, ensuring sound judgment and clear documentation

*Oversee development of technical accounting positions and supporting documentation that withstand audit and stakeholder review

*Partner cross-functionally to translate accounting implications into clear and practical guidance

Close Leadership, Team Development & Operational Execution

*Lead the monthly close process, ensuring results are accurate, timely, and well supported

*Oversee and develop a team of accounting professionals, providing direction, review, and ongoing feedback

*Reinforce consistency, accountability, and clear expectations across the close and reporting process

*Drive improvement of existing processes to strengthen efficiency, coordination, and quality of reporting

*Partner with cross-functional teams to improve processes that impact financial reporting

Required Qualifications

*Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance; CPA required

*Minimum of 4 years in public accounting and preferred 4 years in corporate accounting

*Strong knowledge of US GAAP and the ability to apply it to transactions

*Demonstrated experience leading audits and preparing audit-ready financial statements and documentation

*Proven ability to lead and develop a team while driving accountability

*Strong communication skills with the ability to clearly explain complex accounting matters

*Track record of continuous improvement and supporting scalable processes

Preferred Qualifications

*Experience in a private equity-backed or highly acquisitive environment

*Experience operating in a growing business with increasing transaction complexity

About Westwood Professional Services, Inc. (Westwood)

At Westwood, our purpose is to create a better world for people through our work. We transform the energy grid, design resilient infrastructure, and develop communities that will flourish today and for future generations. With over 50 years of experience and a legacy of innovation, we stand at the forefront of our industry, dedicated to understanding the unique needs of the markets we serve.

Our approach revolves around people. We are committed to building a culture that attracts, retains, and develops high performers. Our team values relationships, innovation, dedication, initiative, and growth. We believe fostering a collaborative "One Team" mentality yields superior outcomes in everything we do.

We customize our technical capabilities and geographic reach to meet our clients where they are and help them realize their vision.

We are partners in our clients' success, driving to provide solutions that make a lasting difference. Safety, sustainability, and operational excellence are not just facets of our work; they are intrinsic to our identity, guiding every decision we make.

We are deeply invested in the communities we serve. Through our projects and giving-back initiatives, we enrich the lives of those we serve, engage others within our industry, and create a lasting impact on communities around the world. To us, success transcends the completion of projects; it is reflected in the lives we have positively impacted by our work.

Join us in creating a better world.

In 2024, Zweig Group ranked Westwood nationally at #13 and #40, respectively, on its Hot Firms and Best Firms to Work for lists. Zweig also awarded Westwood one national 1st place award for Marketing Excellence. Westwood was recently recognized as #83 in the ENR Top 500 Firms in 2024. The firm consistently ranks on the industry's top 25 lists and receives recognition for its involvement in award-winning projects nationwide.

Westwood provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. We believe that diverse backgrounds strengthen our business. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.