Location: Fort Worth, TX
Company Overview:
OGD Overhead Garage Door (OGD) is a premier, high-growth, garage door repair, installation, and replacement company serving communities across the country. We are a fully licensed and insured company, offering comprehensive commercial and residential services, as well as a wide selection of products to suit any customer’s needs. OGD’s entrepreneurial culture helps drive its rapid growth across more than 40 markets and accelerating M&A strategy.
Position Summary:
The Vice President, Finance is responsible for developing and implementing OGD’s accounting and financial processes and owning the Company’s general ledger. The VP, Finance will also have a key role partnering with leadership to utilize financial information to drive profitability, cost optimization, commercial efforts, and other efficiencies. The Vice President, Finance also helps maintain strong relationships with auditors, lenders, and third-party service providers to ensure smooth operations. The position will involve significant exposure to all key areas of OGD’s business, including corporate finance / capital structure, treasury, tax, forecasting, risk management, and operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the Company’s first-year audit process, including opening balance sheet procedures, and help to manage relationships with external auditors
- Ensure that effective internal controls are in place and administer compliance with GAAP and applicable federal, state and local regulatory laws and rules
- Set and implement monthly, quarterly, and year-end accounting close activities
- Analyze general ledger account activity, prepare, or review journal entries and perform monthly balance sheet reconciliations
- Work closely with the executive team to develop and implement the annual business plan, including revenue, expense and capital spending budgets
- Coordinate with appropriate third-parties to ensure tax filings are completed accurately and in a timely manner
- Oversee the Company’s financial technology systems, ensuring that resources are optimized to support real-time, reliable data insights for key stakeholders
- Proactively support the Company with recurring and ad hoc financial information and analysis to enable and ensure quality decision-making
- Work directly with the CFO in the Company’s treasury function to enhance working capital efficiency and optimize cash management
- Manage all aspects of debt covenant compliance and deliver quarterly reporting packages to lenders as required by agreements
- Work directly with the CFO to recruit, supervise, and mentor team of divisional accounting staff members
- Lead continued finance and accounting post-close M&A system migration, training of local accounting staff, implementation of standard Company procedures, on-site support during transition period
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Experience as a Corporate or Divisional Controller, with a minimum of [8-10] years of managerial and professional accounting experience in a high-performing and progressive organization
- CPA, BS/BA degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or related field
- Brings practical operational experience alongside in-depth understanding of accounting concepts, including but not limited to:
- Percentage-of-completion and other project-based revenue recognition
- Inventory management, costing methodologies
- Purchase price allocation, opening balance sheet procedures
- Estimates and assumptions pertaining to GAAP-basis accrual accounting
- Expert-level accuracy and skill with MS Excel, PowerPoint
- Ideally, but not necessarily, experience supporting private equity-backed acquisition strategy through financial integration of new businesses
- Transparent and effective oral and written communicator; comfortable communicating both concisely with executive audiences and in-detail with tactical audiences at all levels
- Holds high ethical standards, does what is right, not what is politically expedient
- Highly motivated, resourceful individual comfortable with managing multiple workstreams and deadlines simultaneously
- Willing to “roll up their sleeves” and implement extremely efficient financial processes and systems while creating buy-in from the broader organization
