About Artera Services

Artera is a premier provider of innovative, sustainable, mission-critical infrastructure solutions. Our core focus is serving the natural gas industry, while offering specialty services that support the advancement of water, wastewater, electric, telecommunications, and other critical industries across a combined service territory of 41 states. Founded in 2020, Artera provides scale and support to an integrated portfolio of legacy family-owned and operated businesses that have been providing critical infrastructure solutions since 1953. We are proud of our roots, utilizing best practices from each of our operating companies to strengthen our collective family and the infrastructure we support.

Our family of businesses partner with and support the companies that provide their communities with the essential resources that fuel the daily lives of Americans. Specifically, their services and solutions are key to ensuring the resilience and sustainability of the infrastructure that keeps the nation fully connected and running strong. The impact of our operations is felt by millions of Americans daily – through flipping a switch to turning on a light, heating homes on a cold night, and delivering clean water to a tap.

Delivering maintenance, replacement, and upgrade (“MRU”) services to utility customers is a critical part of our business and our commitment to enable the sustainable and resilient delivery of essential energy. Similarly, we work alongside utility customers for new installations to support growth nationwide. Through our operating companies, we build and modernize innovative infrastructure, not only ensuring reliability today but facilitating sustainability for tomorrow.

Our team members are encouraged to collaborate, share ideas, and learn from each other. We invest in you and your future so you can #BuildYourArteraStory with us. When you join our team, you start your career – not just a day job. Our culture is based on our four core values of safety, quality, commitment, and reputation and we expect our team members to live by those values at work, and at home.

The Role

Job Purpose

Reporting directly to the Chief Financial Officer, the CAO is a highly visible, key leader within the finance organization, who will be responsible for all aspects of accounting, including creating and sustaining a best-in-class enterprise-wide control framework. The Corporate Controller collaborates closely with stakeholders in all parts of the business and at various levels throughout the company regarding U.S. GAAP, financial reporting, filing & reporting requirements, emerging accounting issues, interpretation of complex and technical accounting guidance, and implementation of newly adopted accounting guidance.

The successful candidate will be a hands-on, thoughtful, and inspiring people leader that will focus on effectuating positive change in the financial organization with the goal of bringing the accounting organization to a best-in-class standard.

Key Accountabilities

• Lead the accounting function, including technical accounting requirements, equity accounting, timely and compliant financial reporting, internal control design, implementation and operation, and external audit deliverables.
• Oversee the company’s accounting and internal control environment required by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act as well as the management of annual GAAP and statutory audits.
• Responsible for setting and enforcing the company’s accounting policy and internal control framework, as well as developing and managing relationships within non-finance functions to achieve best practices.
• Manage the relationship with outside auditors and direct internal audit in its testing of SOX controls.
• Be a trusted advisor to the CFO and member of the Finance Leadership Team and responsible for regular and direct interface with other senior and functional staff, as well as the company’s internal auditors, independent auditors, and relevant authorities. In concordance with the management team, contribute to key strategic initiatives.
• Direct the department financial reporting and review processes.
• Aid in the company’s M&A agenda, including due diligence and integration.
• Hire, develop, mentor, and lead a team of accounting professionals.
• Lead the company’s tax function, ensuring proper policies and procedures are in place to minimize company potential costs and working with taxing authorities globally to ensure compliance.

Experience

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or similar field
• 15 years of relevant experience
• Experience working for a publicly traded company
• Financial Control/Reporting experience
• Financial Accounting System upkeep and improvement experience
• GAAP/SOX/IFRS expertise
• De-centralized company or highly matrixed company experience
• CPA

Highly Preferred:

• MBA or Masters degree with a focus in financial management, accountancy, or similar field
• Currently a Chief Accounting Office or Corporate Controller
• Private Equity experience
• Public Accounting/Audit background
• FP&A/Operational finance experience
• Service industry, B2B industrial services industry, or best-in-class manufacturing industry experience