Regional Controller

This role will be within Ace Hardware Home Services!

Ace Hardware Home Services is a collection of regional companies with experienced professionals dedicated to helping homeowners complete home maintenance tasks. Ace Hardware Home Services has a growing roster of services (including Unique Indoor Comfort), which now include handyman services, plumbing, cooling, heating, electrical and paint. Ace is now better positioned to serve more homeowners who are seeking to have many home maintenance projects completed for them in a quality manner performed by trained professionals from brands they can trust.

About This Role

The Regional Controller is responsible for managing and overseeing the finance function for assigned business locations. This individual will work with the local General Managers and VP Finance to drive regional accounting systems and the monthly close process, as well as responsibility for financial reporting and FP&A workstreams. The Regional Controller will facilitate the administration of departmental budgets and forecasts and provide financial analysis and insight to support key business decisions.

- This position can be hybrid from our corporate office or completely remote.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance (MBA or CPA a plus but not required).
• 10 or more years of progressively responsible experience in accounting, finance, auditing, or consulting.
• Proven leadership abilities.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to establish effective working relationships with business-operations and finance. leaders and other Company personnel of varying levels.
• Ability to successfully lead projects, set priorities, meet deadlines and multi-task.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, and presentation skills.
• An in-depth understanding of the inter-relationships between operations and accounting.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel knowledge. Service Titan and Sage Intacct experience a plus.

Who we are

Ace Hardware is the largest retailer-owned hardware cooperative in the world with over 5,800 locally owned and operated hardware stores in approximately 60 countries. Headquartered in Oak Brook, Ill., Ace and its subsidiaries operate an expansive network of distribution centers in the U.S. and have distribution capabilities in Ningbo, China, and Santa Catarina, Mexico.

Since 1924, Ace has become a part of local communities around the world and known as the place with the Helpful Hardware Folks. For more information, visit www.acehardware.com.

Compensation Details:

$112 000 - $140000

Why should you join our team?

We live our values - W.E.L.I.G.H.T (Winning, Excellence, Love, Integrity, Gratitude, Humility, and Teamwork). Gratitude. Humility. Love. You don’t often see values like these in most corporate statements, but Ace is different. These things are important to us. They represent our commitment to the company, our employees, to Ace retailers and to the Ace brand.

In addition to providing our employees a great culture, Ace also offers competitive benefits* that address life’s necessities and perks, many of which expand and improve year after year, including:

• Incentive opportunities, based on role/grade level (rapid company growth over the past 5 years resulted in incentives being paid out at an average of 122% of your target opportunity!)
• Generous 401(k) retirement savings plan with a fully vested matching contribution the first year in addition to quarterly contributions and annual discretionary contribution (once eligibility requirements have been met). Over the past 5 years, company contributions (matching, quarterly & discretionary) for fully eligible employees have averaged 10.4% of total eligible compensation.
• Comprehensive health coverage (medical, dental, vision and disability – up to 26 weeks short-term disability and long-term disability) & life insurance benefits for you and your dependents
• 21 days of vacation immediately available (prorated in the first year) and up to 6 paid holidays depending on the month of hire
• Your career at Ace is more than just a job. It’s a chance to be part of something meaningful. We help locally-owned businesses thrive and make an impact in their communities – and we support our employees in doing the same by offering an annual Ace Cares Week, 20 hours off work per year to volunteer at an organization of your choice, opportunities to help Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals and the Ace Helpful Fund through the Ace Foundation
• Ace invests in every employee we hire, with a key focus on development and coaching. We offer on-sit