Pacific Outdoor Living
Landscape Design & Construction – Sun Valley, CA Is expanding fast – Looking for a hands-on and experienced
Director of Finance / Controller
If you love turning numbers into clear decisions, building strong controls and growing a team, we'd love to hear from you!Salary and other benefits: Depending on your experience and qualifications, we offer a base salary of $140,000 to $160,000 per year, plus a target annual bonus of 10% to 15% of base salary under our approved incentive plan. Additionally, we offer:
- Health, dental and vision insurance (from the first of the month after your first 30 days)
- 401(k) after 6 months, with a company match of up to 4%
- 6 paid holidays and 6 paid sick days per year (after 90 days)
- Paid vacation: 1 week after year 1, 2 weeks after year 5, 3 weeks after year 10
About our company: Pacific Outdoor Living is a family-owned landscape design-build company, founded in 1999, with 135 employees. We started as a paving stone company and grew into one of the largest landscape companies in Southern California. We design and build complete outdoor living spaces: pools and spas, outdoor kitchens, pergolas, fire pits, water features, hardscape and landscape. With showrooms in Sun Valley and Grover Beach, our in-house crews have built thousands of outdoor spaces across Greater Los Angeles and the Central Coast, earning 840+ five-star reviews on Google and Yelp.
Why you should join our team:- A true leadership role: you report to the General Manager and shape how the company is run.
- Build something new: you will set up the accounting and inventory controls of our new wholesale purchasing company.
- Year-over-year growth, and a company that wants people who build long careers with us.
Our Location: On site at our main office, 8309 Tujunga Ave #201, Sun Valley, CA 91352. www.pacificoutdoorliving.com
Your schedule: Full-time. Monday to Friday, 8:30 am to 5:30 pm.
Your mission & responsibilities as Director of Finance / Controller: You lead our finance and accounting team, strengthen our financial controls and give leadership clear, reliable numbers to manage cash, project profitability, costs and expansion.
- Lead accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll, reporting and asset records; develop the team.
- Own the monthly and annual close, reconciliations and timely financial statements.
- Prepare budgets, rolling forecasts and a 13-week cash-flow forecast; explain results, risks and actions.
- Analyze project costs, labor productivity, purchasing and gross margins with operations; oversee progress billing, change orders and WIP.
- Set clear approval procedures and separation of duties; improve workflows and cut manual entry.
- Set up the new wholesale company: chart of accounts, inventory controls, intercompany billing.
- Run the compliance calendar (insurance audits, licenses, bonds, sales/payroll/property tax, 1099) with outside advisers.
Required experience and qualifications:- 7+ years of progressive accounting and financial management, including 3+ years supervising staff.
- Proven ownership of financial statements, month-end close, budgets and cash forecasting.
- Strong QuickBooks Online and advanced Excel skills.
- Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred: construction or project-based accounting (job costing, WIP), multi-entity or inventory accounting, CPA or CMA.
Preferred soft skills:- Turns financial information into practical recommendations.
- Highly organized; a clear communicator.
- Hands-on, and builds and develops a team.
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