Controller

Position Summary

Mammoth Machinery is seeking an experienced, detail-oriented Controller to oversee the company’s accounting and financial operations. The Controller will be responsible for ensuring the accuracy and integrity of the company’s financial records, delivering timely and meaningful financial reporting, managing cash flow, and maintaining effective financial controls.

In addition to managing the day-to-day accounting function, the Controller will serve as a strategic business partner to ownership and the leadership team. This individual will translate financial information into practical business insights, help evaluate significant operational and investment decisions, identify risks and opportunities, and support the company’s long-term growth and profitability.

This position requires a proactive and highly organized professional who can manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced heavy-equipment environment. The ideal candidate will combine strong technical accounting knowledge with sound business judgment, leadership ability, and a commitment to accountability and continuous improvement.

Primary Responsibilities

Financial Reporting and Management

• Prepare accurate and timely monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements.
• Lead the month-end and year-end closing processes.
• Maintain the integrity and accuracy of the general ledger.
• Ensure financial reporting complies with generally accepted accounting principles and established company policies.
• Prepare management reports, financial analyses, and supporting schedules for ownership and leadership.
• Analyze financial performance and clearly communicate significant trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Coordinate with the company’s outside CPA firm and other professional advisors.

Strategic Business Partnership

• Serve as a trusted financial advisor to ownership and company leadership.
• Translate financial results into practical recommendations that support operational and strategic decision-making.
• Assist in evaluating equipment purchases, financing arrangements, capital investments, growth opportunities, and other major business decisions.
• Develop financial models and scenario analyses to support planning and decision-making.
• Identify opportunities to improve profitability, operational efficiency, working capital, and return on invested capital.
• Provide leadership with timely visibility into financial risks, cash requirements, and performance against company goals.
• Partner with operational leaders to establish financial accountability throughout the organization.

Cash-Flow and Treasury Management

• Monitor and manage the company’s daily cash position and liquidity needs.
• Prepare short-term and long-term cash-flow forecasts.
• Manage working capital and anticipate future cash requirements.
• Maintain relationships with banks, lenders, and other financial institutions.
• Recommend strategies for the effective use of available cash and credit resources.
• Ensure sufficient cash is available to meet payroll, debt service, vendor, tax, and operating obligations.

Accounts Receivable

• Oversee customer invoicing, payment application, and collection activities.
• Review accounts-receivable aging reports and monitor past-due balances.
• Establish and enforce appropriate credit and collection procedures.
• Work with operations and management to resolve customer billing and payment issues.
• Improve collection efficiency and reduce the company’s exposure to bad debts.

Accounts Payable

• Oversee the accurate and timely processing of vendor invoices and payments.
• Maintain appropriate payment schedules based on cash availability and vendor terms.
• Review supporting documentation, coding, and authorization before payment.
• Maintain accurate vendor records and help resolve vendor discrepancies.
• Ensure proper controls exist over purchasing, invoice approval, and disbursements.

Fixed Assets and Equipment Accounting

• Maintain complete and accurate fixed-asset records.
• Track equipment purchases, additions, disposals, transfers, and depreciation.
• Ensure expenditures are appropriately classified as capital assets or operating expenses.
• Reconcile fixed-asset records to the general ledger.
• Coordinate periodic physical inventories of equipment and other significant assets.
• Maintain documentation supporting ownership, acquisition cost, financing, location, and disposition of company assets.
• Assist management in analyzing equipment utilization, profitability, repair costs, and replacement needs.

Notes Payable and Debt Management

• Maintain accurate schedules for all loans, notes payable, equipment financing, and other debt obligations.
• Reconcile lender statements and debt balances to the general ledger.
• Prepare and maintain principal and interest amortization schedules.
• Ensure debt payments are made accurately and on time.
• Monitor compliance with loan covenants and reporting requirements.
• Assist ownership in evaluating refinancing opportunities and proposed financing arrangements.
• Maintain organized records of loan documents, collateral requirements, guarantees, and maturity dates.

General Ledger and Reconciliations

• Ensure timely and accurate reconciliation of all material balance-sheet accounts.
• Review or prepare reconciliations for:
• Bank accounts
• Credit cards
• Accounts receivable
• Accounts payable
• Inventory
• Fixed assets and accumulated depreciation
• Loans and notes payable
• Payroll and benefit liabilities
• Sales and use taxes
• Intercompany and related-party accounts
• Prepaid expenses, deposits, and other balance-sheet accounts
• Investigate and resolve discrepancies in a timely manner.
• Ensure reconciliations contain appropriate supporting documentation and review.

Budgeting, Forecasting, and Financial Analysis

• Lead or assist with the preparation of annual operating and capital budgets.
• Develop rolling forecasts and financial projections.
• Compare actual results to budget and prior periods.
• Explain material variances and recommend corrective actions.
• Prepare profitability analyses by business activity, customer, equipment category, location, or other relevant segment.
• Develop and monitor key performance indicators.
• Assist management in setting financial targets and measuring progress against those targets.

Internal Controls and Process Improvement

• Develop, document, and maintain effective accounting policies, procedures, and internal controls.
• Protect company assets through appropriate approval, documentation, reconciliation, and review procedures.
• Establish appropriate segregation of duties where practical.
• Identify weaknesses in existing processes and recommend corrective action.
• Improve the efficiency, accuracy, and scalability of accounting workflows.
• Support the implementation and optimization of accounting software and related business systems.
• Promote a culture of financial discipline and accountability.

Payroll and Employee Benefits Oversight

• Oversee or review payroll processing for completeness and accuracy.
• Ensure payroll taxes, benefit deductions, and related liabilities are properly recorded and paid.
• Reconcile payroll reports to the general ledger.
• Coordinate with payroll providers, insurance representatives, and benefit administrators as necessary.
• Support management with compensation analysis and labor-cost reporting.

Tax and Regulatory Compliance

• Coordinate the preparation of income-tax returns with the company’s outside CPA firm.
• Prepare supporting schedules and respond to information requests from tax advisors.
• Oversee sales tax, use tax, payroll tax, property tax, and other required financial filings.
• Maintain applicable business registrations, licenses, and reporting requirements.
• Assist with audits, reviews, tax examinations, and other regulatory inquiries.
• Monitor filing deadlines and ensure required payments and reports are submitted on time.

Leadership and Accounting-Team Development

• Supervise, support, and develop accounting personnel.
• Assign responsibilities and establish clear performance expectations.
• Review work for accuracy, completeness, and timeliness.
• Provide training, mentoring, and professional development.
• Encourage collaboration between accounting, operations, sales, and ownership.
• Build an accounting function capable of supporting the company’s continued growth.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a related field.
• At least five years of progressive accounting and financial-management experience.
• Strong knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles.
• Demonstrated experience with financial reporting, general-ledger accounting, reconciliations, fixed assets, accounts payable, accounts receivable, cash flow, and debt management.
• Proficiency with accounting systems and Microsoft Excel.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities.
• Ability to handle confidential information with integrity and discretion.
• Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and consistently meet deadlines.

Preferred

• Previous experience as a Controller, Assistant Controller, Accounting Manager, or public accounting experience.
• CPA or CMA designation.
• Experience in the heavy-equipment, equipment-rental, construction, manufacturing, industrial, or related industry.
• Experience managing equipment financing and significant fixed-asset portfolios.
• Experience developing budgets, forecasts, financial models, and cash-flow projections.
• Experience supervising and developing accounting personnel.
• Experience improving accounting systems, internal controls, and business processes.

Desired Characteristics

The successful candidate will be:

• Ethical, trustworthy, and accountable.
• Detail-oriented while maintaining a broader understanding of the business.
• Proactive rather than reactive.
• Comfortable identifying and communicating financial concerns.
• Capable of presenting complex financial information in an understandable and practical manner.
• Organized and able to manage multiple deadlines.
• Solutions-oriented and committed to continuous improvement.
• Collaborative and able to work effectively across departments.
• Confident serving as both a financial leader and strategic business partner.
• Invested in the long-term success of Mammoth Machinery.

Compensation

The position offers an annual salary starting at $100,000, with additional compensation available based on the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and demonstrated ability to contribute to the company. A 401k matching contribution is also available along with employer-sponsored health-insurance benefits and other benefits established by the company.

Why Mammoth Machinery?

Mammoth Machinery offers an experienced financial professional the opportunity to become a key member of the company’s leadership team. The Controller will have a meaningful role in strengthening financial operations, supporting ownership, improving profitability, managing risk, and helping guide the company’s long-term direction.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Mammoth Machinery is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, performance, and the needs of the business.

Pay: $100,000.00 - $110,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Spanish Fork, UT 84660