Corporate Controller

Description

The Corporate Controller is responsible for managing the accounting organization and all accounting functions supporting Mansfield Energy and all its subsidiaries and joint venture relationships.

Responsibilities (People Leadership, Vision, Governance)

People Leadership

• Team management responsibilities may include payables, cash applications, banking, general ledger, excise tax, and department technology lead
• Responsible for recruiting, mentoring, training, and retaining a diverse team and the ability to delegate accordingly
• Develop clear goals for staff each year that support company goals and objectives
• Develop a coaching strategy for staff to achieve or exceed goals and objectives

• Regularly review performance with staff
• Help staff focus on what is within their control to achieve success
• Celebrates success
• Quickly addresses performance issues in a constructive manner
• Create positive accountability and follow-up to achieve goals

Vision

• Develop clear vision, goals, and objectives for the department that support company goals and objectives and keep team members focused on high performance
• Implement a strategy for departments to examine and improve key processes used every day
• Develop clear departmental strategy to achieve measurable and financial goals
• Coordinate team member scheduling and staffing to ensure excellent customer service and response is achieved
• Provide a regular feedback strategy for the department to evaluate results and make improvements
  
  

Governance

• Ensure accounting teams have documented, auditable processes in place to accurately record transactions.
• Evaluate control risk for financial processes and put in place internal controls to cover the five management assertions for each balance sheet account. (Accuracy, Ownership, Completeness, Valuation, Financial Statement Presentation & Disclosure)
• Produce month-end financial statements including analysis of the profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow statements
• Manage monthly financial consolidations process
• Responsible for establishing and maintaining proper internal controls to ensure effective internal control environment.
• Responsible for all joint venture accounting including developing and managing rates for shared services support provided to external businesses
• Manage the annual external audit including adherence to budget and reporting date commitments
• Provide financial information to tax accountants, banks and counterparties as needed
• Responsible for managing department's cost and providing ideas and opportunities to consistently improve department's efficiency
• Responsible for developing and reporting out department specific metrics
• Manage account reconciliation process to ensure all accounts reconciled in timely fashion. We require all balance sheet general ledger accounts to be properly reconciled monthly.
• Responsible for developing divisions' annual budget and reporting out budget variances
• Responsible for department's technology needs including general ledger accounting software, vendor relationship management, implementation needs, issue resolution, and enhancement needs. Note that we are planning to implement Blackline in 2024.

Competencies

Functional/Technical Competencies

Leadership Competencies

Core Principles

Position Requirements

Formal Education & Certification

• Undergraduate degree in Accounting required
• Active CPA license required
• MBA preferred

Knowledge & Experience

• Seven or more years in accounting
• Three or more years of leadership in accounting/finance related organization

• Thorough knowledge of general ledger, intercompany accounting, consolidations

• Proficiency with accounting/financial software packages
• Proficient use of Microsoft Excel
• Petroleum experience preferred
• Public accounting experience preferred
• Blackline experience a plus

Qualifications & Characteristics

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills; experience in effectively communicating key data, including presentations, to senior management
• Ability and desire to translate complex financial concepts to individuals at all levels including finance and non-finance managers
• Ability to multi-task
• Detail oriented
• Time and task management skills essential
• Ability to work effectively with minimum supervision to meet deadlines
• Independent thinker with a compliance mindset

Work Environment

• 40-hour on-site work week
• Sitting for extended periods of time
• Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard, mouse, power tools, and other computer components

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status