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Mollenhour Gross

Assistant Controller

Mollenhour Gross, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, 37955


Mollenhour Gross, LLC is actively recruiting an Assistant Controller to help drive excellence throughout our accounting and financial reporting ecosystem.

About Us:

We are a private holding company with permanent capital based in Knoxville, TN, owned by Jordan Mollenhour and Dustin Gross, who have been business partners since 2004.We own and oversee a diverse portfolio of assets, including wholly-owned subsidiaries, minority investments, commercial real estate, specialty loans, public securities, and more.Our decentralized and autonomous portfolio companies are engaged in a variety of industries, including e-commerce order fulfillment, commercial real estate, hospitality, aerospace parts, software, and more.We have no outside investors, use debt conservatively, and have a long-term investment horizon.We love business and investing - it's our vocation, hobby, and passion all wrapped into one.Our primary activities are to seek, evaluate, invest in, and govern our investments, and to identify, recruit, incentivize, and retain exceptional people to lead, manage, support, and operate them.We aren't inclined towards financial engineering and prefer to solve problems and serve customers.We have a small staff with a wide variety of investments - this requires us to avoid managing subsidiaries, embrace decentralization, and empower autonomy.Life is short, and we only want to work with people we respect, like, and trust.We aspire to surround ourselves with individuals who have high integrity, humility, a bias to action, an ownership mindset, a spirit of continuous improvement, discipline, and rationality.

About The Role:

Our Assistant Controller's primary areas of responsibility and activity will be the following:

Grow and strengthen our existing culture of compliance, ethical behavior, and good judgment.Execute our consolidated financial reporting;Administer payroll and assist with payroll tax reporting;Perform daily bookkeeping operations at closely-held entities, including journal entries, intercompany accounting, reconciliations, consolidation, and closing of the books;Oversee and manage the payment of AP and the collection of AR; andAssist and support our accounting leadership with various projects, tasks, and responsibilities, as assigned.

The perfect candidate will have the following personality traits, preferences, and experiences:

You have integrity and character beyond reproach.You are extremely numerate, inquisitive, organized, and detail-oriented.You drive action and get stuff done.You have a service-oriented mindset.You are passionate and curious about financial reporting, accounting, and/or audit.You are eager to work alone with numbers, spreadsheets, and financial information for several hours every day, but are happy to collaborate with others on projects, large and small.You are deliberate and methodical, but you have a bias to action.You are comfortable and committed to poke, prod, challenge, and - when necessary - lead difficult conversations and resolve difficult problems.You have at least 3 years of relevant experience.You have at least some experience with tax accounting and tax reporting.

This is a hybrid role, with flexible work-from-home optionality. We prefer this person to live in our hometown of Knoxville, or at least within close proximity (i.e., an easy day's drive). We expect the salary to fall between $100,000-$125,000, depending on experience, skills, and long-term fit. We do not offer retirement plans or traditional health benefits, instead preferring to pay more salary and let you manage your personal affairs as you wish.

About The Process:

Our process for evaluating candidates will include a couple up-front assessments. In the past, some folks have been turned off by that, and that's ok. We certainly don't want to ask candidates to invest any time that they're not willing to invest. But historically, we've found that the right "fits" tend to enjoy our process.

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If you are qualified and interested, please apply by filling out the blanks on the right side of this page, and clicking "Submit Application." We look forward to hearing from you, and we will be in touch with the "next steps."