Senior Director, Controller

FleetPride is seeking a strategic and operationally focused accounting leader to serve as Senior Director, Controller, reporting directly to the Chief Accounting Officer. This role will lead the Company’s operational accounting, corporate accounting, financial reporting, and other related accounting and compliance functions while building a high-performing team capable of supporting a complex, multi-location retail, service and wholesale businesses.

This leader will oversee the integrity and scalability of FleetPride’s accounting processes across a nationwide footprint of locations while ensuring accurate, timely, and transparent financial reporting in accordance with US GAAP.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on accounting executive who combines deep technical expertise with operational leadership capability. This individual will play a critical role in driving operational excellence, strengthening accounting discipline, and building a performance-oriented culture across the accounting organization.

The Senior Director, Controller will partner closely with Finance leadership and operational teams to ensure accounting processes effectively support the scale, complexity, and growth of the business

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategic Finance & Operational Partnership

• Serve as a strategic finance partner to operations leadership, providing insights that improve decision-making across the Company’s nationwide branch and distribution network.
• Develop and implement enhanced analytics and reporting capabilities to monitor key operational drivers including inventory trends, cost of goods sold, margin performance, and working capital efficiency.
• Partner with operations, supply chain, and finance leaders to proactively identify and address operational issues impacting financial performance.
• Provide leadership in the development of reporting and analytics that improve visibility into inventory performance, inventory turns, obsolescence, shrinkage, and branch-level profitability.
• Drive greater transparency and accountability across the organization by translating financial data into actionable insights for operational leaders.
• Support leadership in identifying opportunities to improve operational efficiency, working capital management, and inventory productivity.

Operational Accounting Leadership

• Ensure accurate and timely recording of operational transactions related to inventory, cost of goods sold, branch operations, and other high-volume operational activities.
• Establish strong processes and controls to support the accounting and financial reporting of inventory and other operational activities.
• Drive standardization and consistency across accounting processes supporting a high-volume operational environment.
• Partner closely with operational leaders to ensure alignment between financial reporting and operational activity.

Corporate Accounting & Financial Reporting

• Oversee the preparation and review of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements in accordance with US GAAP, management reporting requirements and lender-based requirements.
• Lead corporate accounting activities including debt, equity, expense accruals, fixed assets, capital expenditures, leases, and other corporate financial processes.
• Ensure the integrity of the Company’s consolidated financial results and oversee the close process across all accounting teams.
• Support technical accounting matters, including review and/or writing of technical memos, accounting policy development, implementation, and adherence thereto, and implementation of new accounting standards.
• Coordinate closely with the Company’s external auditors and internal stakeholders to support annual audits and financial reporting requirements. Capital Expenditure & Fixed Asset Governance
• Provide leadership over capital expenditure accounting and reporting processes supporting investments across the Company’s operational footprint.
• Ensure accurate capitalization, asset tracking, and depreciation processes in accordance with accounting policy.
• Partner with Finance and operational leaders to improve discipline and transparency around capital investment tracking and reporting.
• Develop reporting c