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Sterling Group

Vice President, Finance

Sterling Group, Fort Worth, Texas, United States, 76102


Location : Fort Worth, TX

Company Overview:

OGD Overhead Garage Door is a premier garage door repair, installation, and replacement company serving communities across the country. We are a fully licensed and insured company offering comprehensive commercial and residential services, as well as a wide selection of products to suit any customer’s needs. We service and repair all makes and models and stock a large selection of parts in our own store.

Position Summary:

The Vice President, Finance is responsible for developing and implementing OGD’s accounting and financial processes and owning the Company’s general ledger. The VP, Finance will also have a key role partnering with leadership to utilize financial information to drive profitability, cost optimization, commercial efforts, and other efficiencies. TheVice President, Finance maintains strong relationships with auditors, lenders, and third-party service providers to ensure smooth operations. The position will involve significant exposure to all key areas of OGD’s business, including corporate finance / capital structure, treasury, tax, forecasting, risk management, and operations.

Key Responsibilities

Lead the Company’s first-year audit process, including opening balance sheet procedures, and manage relationships with external auditors

Ensure that effective internal controls are in place and administer compliance with GAAP and applicable federal, state and local regulatory laws and rules

Set and implement monthly, quarterly, and year-end accounting close activities

Analyze general ledger account activity, prepare, or review journal entries and perform monthly balance sheet reconciliations

Work closely with the executive team to develop and implement the annual business plan, including revenue, expense and capital spending budgets

Coordinate with appropriate third parties to ensure tax filings are completed accurately and in a timely manner

Oversee the Company’s financial technology systems ensuring that resources are optimized to support real-time, reliable data insights for key stakeholders

Participate as key stakeholder in upcoming ERP design, testing, and transition project

Proactively support the Company with recurring and ad hoc financial information and analysis to enable and ensure quality decision-making

Oversee the Company’s treasury function to enhance working capital efficiency and optimize cash management

Manage all aspects of debt covenant compliance and deliver quarterly reporting packages to lenders as required by agreements

Recruit, supervise, and mentor team of divisional accounting staff members

Lead finance and accounting post-close M&A system migration, training of local accounting staff, implementation of standard Company procedures, on-site support during transition period

Ideal Candidate Profile

Experience as a Corporate or Divisional Controller, with a minimum of [10] years of managerial and professional accounting experience in a high-performing and progressive organization

CPA, BS/BA degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or related field

Brings practical operational experience alongside in-depth understanding of accounting concepts, including but not limited to:

Percentage-of-completion and other project-based revenue recognition

Inventory management, costing methodologies

Purchase price allocation, opening balance sheet procedures

Estimates and assumptions pertaining to GAAP-basis accrual accounting

Expert-level accuracy and skill with MS Excel, PowerPoint

Ideally, but not necessarily, experience supporting private equity-backed acquisition strategy through financial integration of new businesses

Transparent and effective oral and written communicator; comfortable communicating both concisely with executive audiences and in-detail with tactical audiences at all levels

Holds high ethical standards, does what is right, not what is politically expedient

Highly motivated, resourceful individual comfortable with managing multiple workstreams and deadlines simultaneously

Willing to “roll up their sleeves” and implement extremely efficient financial processes and systems while creating buy-in from the broader organization

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