The main opportunity is a Corporate Controller role with Sentrimax Centrifuges in Mansfield, TX, and it is considerably broader than a traditional accounting Controller position.
At a high level
- Company: Sentrimax Centrifuges — industrial services/MRO company specializing in centrifuge repair, maintenance, rentals, parts and sales.
- Ownership: Private-equity backed. Sentrimax was acquired in March 2025 by Strive Equity Partners, with Fruition Capital involved.
- Operations: 3 locations — Mansfield, TX; Edmonton, Alberta; and Kitchener, Ontario.
- Role: Corporate Controller / senior accounting leader.
- Location: Primarily on-site in Mansfield, with some potential for partial remote work after the person is fully integrated. Travel to the Canadian locations and PE/board meetings is expected.
- Reporting to: CEO and the PE sponsor's finance lead.
- Future potential: The position could evolve into a CFO role as the company grows.
What they really want this person to do
This is a hands-on operational Controller, not simply someone overseeing the accounting department.
The person will own:
- Financial reportingMonthly/quarterly/year-end close
- Consolidated U.S. GAAP reporting
- Canadian accounting considerations
- Intercompany eliminations and multi-currency accounting
- Management reporting and KPI dashboards
- Epicor Kinetic / ERPBecome the functional owner of Epicor Kinetic Financials.
- Oversee multi-site/multi-company accounting.
- Manage project accounting, job costing, WIP, revenue recognition and project margins.
- Improve systems, processes and data integrity.
- Budgeting & forecastingAnnual budgets for each location and consolidated company
- Rolling P&L, balance sheet and cash-flow forecasts
- Analyze project/site profitability
- Support pricing and bid decisions
- Working capital & cashAR/collections and AP
- DSO/DPO
- Cash forecasting
- Bank/credit-line activity
- Inventory and WIP
- FX exposure between the U.S. and Canada
- Private-equity supportPE reporting packages
- Lender reporting
- Board materials
- Value-creation initiatives
- Potential add-on acquisitions and integration work.
Ideal candidate
They're looking for someone with:
- 8+ years accounting/finance experience
- 3–5 years as a Controller or similar leader
- Multi-site experience
- Industrial services, field services, construction or project-based manufacturing experience
- PE-backed/highly leveraged company experience is a big plus
- Epicor Kinetic/Epicor ERP experience is strongly preferred
- Strong U.S. GAAP knowledge
- Advanced Excel/modeling skills
- Bachelor's in Accounting, Finance or related field
- CPA strongly preferred
The personality they're after
Probably just as important as the technical requirements:
Hands-on, entrepreneurial, process-oriented and comfortable getting into the weeds.
They need someone who can both lead the accounting team and personally perform individual-contributor work. They want someone who can tighten the close, improve systems/data, work directly with operations and communicate financial information to non-financial executives.