Controller - Legence

5000 E Spring St 8th floor, Long Beach, CA 90815, USA ● Long Beach, CA, USAReq #1897

Friday, January 3, 2025

Legence (https://www.wearelegence.com/) , a Blackstone portfolio company, is an Energy Transition Accelerator™ that provides advisory services and implementation focused on financing, designing, building, and servicing complex systems in mission-critical and high performance facilities. With five decades of expertise in the built environment, Legence has a proven track record of reducing carbon emissions, implementing renewables, lowering utility costs through efficiency consumption, and making systems run better at unmatched speed and scale.

P2S, a Legence company, is an award-winning engineering firm recognized as a "Best Place to Work" for the past 15 years. We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Controller to lead our financial strategies. In this pivotal role, you will ensure robust fiscal management and compliance while driving initiatives that enhance system efficiencies and reduce emissions across California. Your expertise will be instrumental in shaping our financial landscape and supporting our mission to create sustainable, high-performance facilities.

What Success Looks Like:

• Accurate Financial Reporting: Deliver timely and precise financial statements in alignment with US GAAP, providing clear insights into the company's financial health.

• Effective Project Accounting: Implement and manage Percentage of Completion (PoC) accounting methodologies, ensuring accurate project forecasting and resource allocation.

• Strategic Financial Planning: Collaborate with project managers to develop precise job cost forecasts, enhancing financial predictability and project success.

• Regulatory Compliance: Ensure all financial activities comply with relevant laws and regulations, maintaining the highest standards of integrity and transparency.

• Team Leadership: Build and mentor a high-performing accounting team, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities and Requirements:

• Financial Oversight: Lead the month-end close process, ensuring timely and accurate financial reporting in accordance with US GAAP.

• Project Accounting: Oversee the construction project accounting process from initiation to completion, including preparation and analysis of month-end reporting (WIP reports, over/under, gross margin, revenue recognition, and projections).

• Audit Coordination: Partner with external auditors to support annual audit procedures, ensuring timely communication and accurate documentation.

• Transaction Management: Supervise accounts receivable, accounts payable, job costing, general ledger, contracts management, and purchasing functions to optimize financial operations.

• Performance Analysis: Maintain KPI dashboards and lead monthly analytical processes to assess operational and financial performance, providing actionable insights for improvement.

• Team Development: Supervise and mentor a team of 4-8 accounting professionals, promoting professional growth and development.

• Financial Planning & Analysis: Support the annual budgeting process, including preparation and consolidation of budget requests, analytics, and presentations for management review.

• System Implementation: Assist in the deployment of new ERP systems and financial software tools to modernize and scale business operations.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting; CPA certificationhighly preferred.

• Minimum of 7 years of progressive accounting experience, preferably within the construction or engineering industries.

• Strong knowledge of US GAAP and ASC 606, with a solid understanding of percentage of completion accounting.

• Exceptional attention to detail, with a rigorous and methodical approach to financial management.

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to build relationships across all company functions.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel; experience with Sage 300 CRE, IFS, or OneStream is a plus.

Location: Long Beach, California. In office 3 days per week.

Note: This job description is intended to provide a general overview of the position and does not encompass all responsibilities and qualifications.

We are unable to provide immigration sponsorship for this position.

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Health and Welfare Benefits

• Health and Welfare

• Medical

• Dental

• Vision

• Prescription drug

• Employee assistance program

Personal Benefits

• Paid vacation

• Company-paid holidays

• Sick leave

Financial Benefits

• 401(k) retirement savings plan

• Company-paid long-term disability insurance

• AD&D insurance

• Life insurance

Contingent Employment Statement

Offers of employment for this role may be contingent upon successfully passing a background check and/or drug screen. Execution of screens will vary based on role requirements and Company policy. All background checks and drug screens will be done in accordance with applicable federal, state, or local law.

Equal Employment Opportunity Employer

Legence and its affiliate companies are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), political affiliation, military service, other non-merit-based factors, and any other characteristic protected under applicable local, state or federal laws and regulations.

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Reasonable Accommodations

If you require assistance applying online, email ta@wearelegence.com . Please include a description of the specific accommodations you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying. If you are selected for an interview, please notify your recruiter of your accommodation needs. All efforts to provide reasonable accommodations will be made.

To all recruitment agencies

Legence and its affiliate companies do not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Do not forward resumes to our career’s alias or employees of Legence and/or its affiliate companies. Legence and/or its affiliate companies are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes. Any third-party recruiting agreements for Legence and its affiliate companies may only be executed by Legence Holdings LLC’s CHRO or Director of Talent Acquisition, without exception. All others are done without proper authorization and will not be honored. We will not be responsible for any fees under any third-party recruiting agreement not executed by said authority.

Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision

Legence and its affiliate companies will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

Other details

• Pay TypeSalary

• Min Hiring Rate$100,000.00

• Max Hiring Rate$190,000.00

• Travel RequiredYes

• Required EducationBachelor’s Degree

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• 5000 E Spring St 8th floor, Long Beach, CA 90815, USA

• Long Beach, CA, USA