Controller
Polk Mechanical Company
Date: 11 hours ago
City: Grand Prairie, TX
Contract type: Full time

Position Overview
TriplePoint is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Corporate Controller / VP of Accounting & Controls to lead corporate accounting, consolidations, financial reporting, and risk control functions across a growing portfolio of operating companies. This role is critical in driving standardization, accuracy, and compliance within a high-growth, acquisitive, private equity-backed environment. The successful candidate will be both a strategic leader and a hands-on contributor, ensuring the integrity of financial reporting while preparing the company for future growth and potential liquidity events.
Key Responsibilities
Corporate Consolidation & Reporting
Technical Expertise
This is a unique opportunity to play a critical leadership role at a fast-growing, private equity–backed platform in the mechanical and industrial construction space. The Corporate Controller / VP of Accounting & Controls will directly influence financial integrity, operational excellence, and transaction readiness while working closely with a seasoned leadership team. This position offers competitive compensation, significant upside through equity participation, and the chance to help shape the financial foundation of a company positioned for scale and success.
TriplePoint is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Corporate Controller / VP of Accounting & Controls to lead corporate accounting, consolidations, financial reporting, and risk control functions across a growing portfolio of operating companies. This role is critical in driving standardization, accuracy, and compliance within a high-growth, acquisitive, private equity-backed environment. The successful candidate will be both a strategic leader and a hands-on contributor, ensuring the integrity of financial reporting while preparing the company for future growth and potential liquidity events.
Key Responsibilities
Corporate Consolidation & Reporting
- Own the monthly and quarterly consolidated roll-up of financial reporting, including Work in Progress (WIP) schedules.
- Ensure accuracy, consistency, and timeliness of reporting across all operating companies.
- Establish standardized reporting frameworks, including chart of accounts alignment and intercompany eliminations.
- Act as internal auditor, implementing controls and processes to mitigate financial and operational risks.
- Lead the annual corporate audit with a top-tier accounting firm, ensuring clean results with minimal to no deficiencies.
- Establish systems to identify compliance gaps and proactively flag financial or operational risks.
- Partner with subsidiary CFOs and finance teams to align accounting practices and enforce consistency across diverse teams and systems.
- Develop and maintain a playbook for integration of newly acquired businesses into corporate standards.
- Implement technology and process automation solutions to improve accuracy and efficiency.
- Prepare the organization for future transactions, including sell-side readiness.
- Oversee Quality of Earnings (QoE) processes, ensuring structured closing procedures, documentation, and reconciliations.
- Support due diligence efforts with external advisors and potential investors.
Technical Expertise
- Construction industry accounting expert with deep knowledge of WIP reporting, revenue recognition, and project accounting.
- Strong background in consolidation, roll-ups, chart of accounts standardization, and intercompany accounting.
- Hands-on technical competency with Excel and fluency in accounting/automation tools.
- Initial training in audit at a Big 4 accounting firm strongly preferred.
- Experience in private equity–backed, acquisitive platforms with exposure to integration and standardization of reporting.
- Proven success leading financial audits with clean results and minimal control deficiencies.
- Direct experience leading a company through a sale process and Quality of Earnings review.
- Process-driven leader with exceptional attention to detail and uncompromising quality standards.
- Industrious, self-starting, and comfortable working in a lean corporate environment (expectation of 55+ hours weekly, with additional intensity during transactions).
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with operating company CFOs and finance teams.
- Practical, hands-on operator willing to “roll up sleeves” and directly execute tasks as needed.
This is a unique opportunity to play a critical leadership role at a fast-growing, private equity–backed platform in the mechanical and industrial construction space. The Corporate Controller / VP of Accounting & Controls will directly influence financial integrity, operational excellence, and transaction readiness while working closely with a seasoned leadership team. This position offers competitive compensation, significant upside through equity participation, and the chance to help shape the financial foundation of a company positioned for scale and success.
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