Senior Vice President, Accounting / Senior Controller
Upwell Water
Accounting & Finance
New York, NY, USA · Remote
The Company
Upwell Water (www.water.llc) is a tech-enabled water resource and infrastructure company. We own lines of business in water utilities, water supply, and water treatment to address increasingly acute needs in aging infrastructure, scarcity, and pollution. Backed by major institutional private investors, Upwell Water is one of the fastest growing firms in water.
The Role
This is a senior CPA role with significant responsibility and full executive team exposure. Your primary responsibilities will include:
- Producing timely monthly financials for a significant corporation with numerous subsidiaries, including managing accounting teams at subsidiary companies that roll up to corporate financials.
- Managing our outside auditors to achieve annual audits and our outside tax advisory firm to produce annual tax filings.
- Financial planning and analysis.
- Finalization of a Netsuite implementation.
- Managing human resource and benefit plans via ADP etc.
- Supporting financial analysis and accounting of new asset builds and acquisitions.
Requirements - Please Only Apply If You Meet These
Absolute requirements:
- CPA.
- Minimum 5 years (and ideally longer) experience producing GAAP financials for institutional corporates, particularly ones with multiple entities requiring consolidation.
- Experience managing audits.
- Experience managing annual tax filings.
- Willingness to produce, not just review, financials, and deep facility with quickbooks, Netsuite, ADP, etc.
- Ability to manage AR and AP functions.
- Generally, a focus on and ability to perform Controller functions. We are looking for a doer not just a manager.
- Able to do anything, above nothing, high energy and positive attitude.
Helpful, but not required:
- Experience with utility, project, and construction accounting. (Please note, no prior experience in the water industry is expected.)
- Experience with enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementations, particularly with Netsuite.
Example backrounds that would fit:
- CFO or VP of Accounting or Finance at a private equity financed or publicly-traded company.
- Similar title at a respected professional services firm performing bookkeeping and accounting functions on behalf of sophisticated institutional clients (e.g. Deloitte, PwC, EY, KPMG, BDO, Baker Tilly, Cohn Reznick, Moss Adams).
Location
Remote is acceptable. NYC office is ideal.
Compensation
Cash compensation is competitive and commensurate with the role and experience.