Assistant Controller

What We're Looking For:

Barge Design Solutions is seeking an experienced Assistant Controller to join our accounting leadership team. This role will partner closely with the Director of Accounting to oversee daily accounting operations, financial reporting, internal controls, treasury management, tax compliance, and financial analysis. The ideal candidate will bring strong technical accounting expertise, a collaborative leadership approach, and a commitment to improving financial processes and operational efficiencies.

The Assistant Controller will play a key role in managing month-end and year-end close activities, coordinating financial audits, overseeing joint venture accounting, and supporting financial performance analysis. This position will also collaborate across Accounting, Finance, and Project Accounting to ensure accurate financial reporting, revenue recognition, work-in-progress (WIP) reporting, and compliance with established accounting standards.

Responsibilities

• Assist with monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close processes to ensure timely and accurate reporting.
• Serve as a primary contact for the annual financial statement audit including reconciliations, data requests, and audit support.
• Review and approve journal entries, accruals, and account reconciliations prepared by the accounting team.
• Manage treasury activities, including cash transactions, reconciliations, and analysis.
• Coordinate tax compliance activities, including personal property tax filings and state/local tax requirements.
• Drive process improvements to streamline month-end close and enhance accounting efficiencies.
• Oversee joint venture accounting activities and serve as the primary contact for related audits and inquiries.
• Support monthly P&L reviews and variance analysis in partnership with the Director of Accounting.
• Collaborate with the Accounts Receivable Manager to monitor weekly billing and collections performance.
• Perform ad hoc and project related reporting on an as needed basis.
• Coordinate with Project Accounting team to ensure monthly variances, WIP, and revenue recognition reporting are accurate and reasonable during the month end close process.

Education & Experience Qualifications:

• 7 to 10 years of accounting experience
• Bachelor’s in accounting or finance
• Strong knowledge of accounting principles, financial reporting, and internal controls.
• Experience managing audits, reconciliations, and month-end close processes.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across accounting and finance functions.
• Proficiency with accounting systems and Microsoft Excel.
• CPA preferred but not required

Why join us?

Barge Design Solutions, Inc., is an engineering and architecture firm with diverse in-house multidisciplinary practice areas. The employee-owned company is more than 650+ people strong and serves clients nationwide from multiple U.S. locations. Barge is ranked on Engineering News-Record (ENR)’s Top 500 Design Firms and Architectural Record’s Top 300 Architecture Firms and is a certified Great Place To Work®.

Our primary purpose for being in business is ultimately to create a better life by unleashing the potential of our people, clients and communities. This purpose is supported by our company’s core values because at the end of the day, Barge CARES:

• Collaborate – Help and expect help. Teamwork is essential in what we do.
• Authentic – Honesty, integrity and trust are at the heart of everything we do. We are who we say we are.
• Responsible – We are accountable for our work, our attitude, and our actions. We make Barge better.
• Excellence – We go all in and expect more of ourselves than others expect of us.
• Service – We are humble. We use our gifts in service of others.

We believe that if we are living out our purpose for being in business and integrating our values into everything we do, we will ultimately achieve our vision to be the firm best known for being selected when it matters most.

Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status or on the basis of disability. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Agency Submissions

No unsolicited agency submissions. Barge Design Solutions does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or staffing agencies. Any unsolicited resume becomes the property of Barge Design Solutions, and no fee will be paid for resulting hires. Only agencies with a signed agreement are authorized to submit candidates.