Contract Controller

About the role

We’re moving every company in our group onto one cloud ERP, and we want the person who gets our books ready for that move to be the person who reviews it afterward. You’ll build on processes already in place, make every entity migration-ready, lead the move to a single system, and then stay on part-time to review our core accounting processes each month.

About Classic Landscaping

Classic Landscaping is a Puget Sound landscaping company operating through several related entities. Each entity has grown with its own way of doing things. One shared system and one shared set of processes is the next step in that growth.

About the role

The job runs in three phases with the same person throughout. Phases 1 and 2 make up the 6-month contract, with an option to extend.

Phase 1: Migration readiness.

Working alongside ownership, you’ll finish standardizing our major accounting processes across every entity: A/R, A/P, payroll, tax reporting, monthly reporting, job-cost reporting and bonus calculations. You’ll align them on one chart of accounts and one set of control standards, and get each entity’s data ready to migrate.

Phase 2: ERP implementation.

You’ll lead configuration decisions, testing and cutover for each of those processes in the new ERP, working with the implementation partner.

Phase 3: Ongoing process review (after go-live, about 10 hours per month).

You’ll review each entity’s monthly results across those processes, advise the team on exceptions, and report results to ownership.

Six months in, success looks like this: every entity runs the same core processes in one system, the numbers reconcile without rework, and ownership trusts the monthly numbers. The system also delivers timely job-costing and cash-flow timing information, and produces accurate revenue recognition and accruals with minimal manual work.

What you’ll do

Phase 1: Migration readiness

• Finish standardizing A/R, A/P, payroll, tax reporting, monthly reporting, job-cost reporting and bonus calculations across all entities.
• Align all entities on one chart of accounts and one month-end close calendar.
• Close the remaining gaps in reconciliation, intercompany and approval standards.
• Prepare balances, vendors, customers and history for migration, and sign off that they are migration-ready.

Phase 2: ERP implementation

• Lead ERP configuration decisions, testing and cutover for each process with the implementation partner.
• Validate migrated balances against the prior books before go-live.
• Document each process in the new system so the team can run it without you in the room.

Phase 3: Ongoing process review

• Review each entity’s monthly A/R, A/P, payroll, tax reporting, financial reporting, job-cost reporting and bonus calculations.
• Advise the team on exceptions and keep the standards current.
• Report monthly results and open issues to ownership.

What we’re looking for

Required

• 10+ years in accounting, including 3+ years as a controller or assistant controller.
• Accounting experience with a landscape maintenance company and a landscape construction company, or one company doing both, including job costing.
• Ran month-end close for two or more legal entities, including intercompany eliminations.
• Took part in at least one ERP implementation or migration through go-live.
• Designed or restructured a chart of accounts.
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance, or equivalent experience.
• Able to work on-site at our offices as needed.

Preferred

• Experience with NetSuite or Acumatica.
• CPA license.
• Runs an independent or fractional controller practice.

How to apply

Apply through Indeed with your resume and a short note about the multi-entity or ERP work you’ve led. You are also welcome to apply directly at employment@classiclandscaping.com

Pay: $90.00 - $120.00 per hour

Expected hours: 20.0 – 40.0 per week

Application Question(s)

• How many years have you done accounting for a landscape maintenance or landscape construction company, including job costing?
• Which ERP have you taken through go-live, and what was your role: lead, team member, or user only?
• What is the largest number of legal entities you’ve run a monthly close for, including intercompany eliminations?
• Have you owned payroll processing and payroll tax reporting (941, state unemployment, L&I) for a company with field crews?
• Can you work on-site at our Puget Sound offices as needed for about 40 hours a week during phases 1 and 2?

Ability to Commute

* Kirkland, WA 98034 (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Kirkland, WA 98034