About the Role: The Regional Controller will be a critical team member who will lead and support multiple workstreams to advance key accounting and operational objectives. The Regional Controller is the key finance contact for our partner companies, in effect they are the regional CFO. This person will interface heavily with assigned local partners, the associated Regional Vice President of Operations and other internal teams to promote and implement best practices across the platform to ensure integrity within the financial statements and critical business processes.

About Us: Legacy Service Partners (LSP) is a leading platform of residential HVAC, plumbing, and electrical service providers across the United States. Since our inception in 2021, LSP has partnered with 30+ leading local brands across 16 states, and we are rapidly expanding our footprint. We exist to serve our Partners and fuel their success. Our role is to create unmatched growth opportunities for our brands so they can better serve their employees, their customers, and their communities. We do this by providing a wide range of world-class resources to support and enhance our local management teams. LSP is guided by three core values – winning together, performance over politics, and today not tomorrow. LSP is backed by Gridiron Capital, a private equity firm specializing in middle-market facilities services companies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee, drive, and support the monthly close process for the region ensuring completeness, accuracy, and timeliness of the accounting records. The level of involvement depends on the local partner’s needs and accounting capabilities.
• Develop and maintain relationships with assigned partner owner-operators/GMs and become a trusted business partner; make sure your owner-operators are comfortable with and understand their financials. Visit partners at least once per quarter.
• Review financial statements and provide robust variance analytics each month.
• Actively participate in monthly financial review calls and the budgeting process for assigned partners, providing supporting data as well as key financial and operational insights.
• Implement robust month end and year end close processes.
• Develop accounting processes/best practices for assigned partners while identifying opportunities to further utilize technology and streamline, where applicable.
• Identify GAAP gaps, address issues and ensure continued compliance with GAAP and LSP’s accounting guidelines.
• Solve ad hoc problems, bringing in other SMEs when needed.
• Monitor and manage regional partners’ cash flows.
• Approve and initiate payment of bills in the centralized A/P system for assigned partners.
• Elevate potential issues to finance and operational leadership teams.
• Support the annual audit for assigned partners.
• Onboard, train, manage and mentor assigned regional staff.
• Recruit and interview direct/indirect reports supporting the assigned region.
• Assist with implementations for regional partner companies, as needed.
• Provide system training and support to regional partner companies, as needed.
• Provide budget and prior year variances; work with the FP&A to provide visibility and to understand fluctuations in revenues, expenses, and other key metrics.
• Prepare/Provide support for financial annual operating plans prepared by partners.
• Enhance and streamline monthly and annual close process for local partner companies in the assigned region; ensure “audit ready” status.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, Finance, or related discipline.
• 7+ years of experience in accounting or finance focused role supporting middle market businesses
• Full cycle accounting and strong knowledge of GAAP
• Strong systems knowledge spanning accounting, payroll, and reporting
• Proven track record of being a trusted business partner to operations and executives
• Ability to thrive in fast paced, dynamic, entrepreneurial environment
• Strong ability to communicate accounting and financial information using common language
• Experience preparing financial statements
• Highly motivated, able to take initiative and is a proactive problem solver
• Analytical – finds meaning and action in numbers, and is data-driven
• Resourceful – figures out how to creatively achieve results with finite resources

Interpersonal Qualifications:

• Customer service focus and mindset, putting our employees and Partners first, with excellent ability to communicate and develop relationships.
• Exceptional problem-solving and conflict resolution abilities to improve things both big and small.
• Highly organized, ability to act quickly while still having attention to detail.
• Hold yourself to a higher standard and exhibit a high level of integrity.

Why You’ll Want to Work Here:

• Core values that we live every day – not just words on a page: We Win Together, Today Not Tomorrow, Performance Not Politics
• Performance Pay directly tied to results – Get what you deserve
• Benefits you will use – Full medical, dental, and vision packages including fully employer paid options
• Secure your financial future – 401(k) with company match
• Speed and scale – Work with a company that operates at the speed of a start up with the investment backing of institutional investors
• We invest in your future – leadership training that directly results into bigger career opportunities
• Learn on the job – continuous education stipends available

Legacy Service Partners is an equal opportunity employer, considering all applicants for employment regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by state of federal law.