At Van Metre, we believe that each employee contributes directly to our growth, success, and culture. We seek out candidates who love to challenge themselves and work with others to fulfill this role. Van Metre is seeking an experienced Controller to oversee our New Homes Accounting team. The ideal candidate will have experience as an accountant in our industry, preferably in a senior role. As a strong communicator and skilled Controller, this person will streamline our financial reporting processes while ensuring accuracy and timeliness of reporting. The controller will also produce thorough financial-status and key performance indicator reports for senior managers, owners and investors to help improve our operational efficiency and aid in our continued growth.

Objectives of this role:

• Provide comprehensive financial updates to senior managers by evaluating, analyzing, and reporting appropriate data points
• Guide financial decisions by applying company policies and procedures to current economic landscape
• Develop, implement, and maintain financial controls and guidelines
• Achieve budgeting goals with proper scheduling, analysis, and corrective actions
• Maximize efficiency through innovative process development across all areas of the department
• Help develop and support short- and long-term operational strategies
• Facilitate the consolidation of hundreds of entities financial statements
• Ensure accurate and timely financial reporting in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and relevant regulations

This is a hybrid role, with two days/week spent working in our Fairfax Corporate office. 

Responsibilities:

• Maintain internal controls for revenue receipts, costs, and team and organizational budgets and actual expenditures
• Establish (in coordination with SVP of Finance) financial and operating benchmarks, budgets, program monitoring, and reporting standards on biweekly, monthly, and annual basis
• Implement consistent accounting policies, practices, and procedures across all programs, adhering to national and local legal standards while remaining knowledgeable of proposed legislation
• Develop and enforce internal controls to maximize protection of company assets, policies, procedures, and workflows
• Monitor and balance cash flows into and out of various entities to meet business obligations and manage owner’s equity
• Facilitate debt management, ensuring draws are submitted timely to banks to maintain company’s cash position and policies
• Preparing external financial statements and reporting for investors
• Develop, oversee and support accounting team with dynamic leadership that creates an environment of trust and productivity

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Ten or more years of professional accounting experience
• Strong understanding of cash management processes and financial data analysis
• Working knowledge of national and local tax regulations and compliance reporting
• Experience in managing a team, with focus on streamlining accounting processes
• Exemplary history of financial project management
• Advanced excel skills
• Excellent written and oral skills
• Attention to detail and ability to multi-task is imperative
• Exhibit solid judgement; take initiative

Preferred Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in business, accounting, or related field
• Five or more years of experience as a senior-level accounting or finance manager
• Professional certification, such as CPA (certified public accountant) or CA (chartered accountant)

Van Metre Companies has been named a Top Workplace by the Washington Post for seven consecutive years! We have received the Washington Business Journal’s Best Places to Work Award for the last six years, and have received their Corporate Philanthropy Award for the last nine years in a row!!!

We offer excellent benefits, and a work environment that fosters and rewards excellence. We also promote work/life balance, including a robust Employee Wellness Program. We encourage employees to make full use of vacation and company paid volunteer time to refresh their bodies and minds.

Van Metre Mission Statement

The mission of Van Metre Companies is to build and continually improve upon the storied reputation, earned over the years since the Company’s founding in 1955, of providing top quality homes, investment properties and services to our customers and clients. The Company’s emphasis on integrity, professionalism and philanthropy ingrained by our founder Albert G. Van Metre, Sr. has garnered trust and respect in the Washington, D.C. area and beyond. It is critical to our future that we maintain that reputation and assure that Van Metre Companies continues to excel in real estate development and construction and in the management of apartment, retail and office investment properties, as well as in the provision of mortgage and related services. It is the task of our dedicated, energetic, and involved professionals to advance our ability to set the benchmark for luxury living and refined commercial development. The capstone of our mission is to make the “Van Metre” signature an icon for elegant residential communities, and industry leading condominium and apartment communities, as well as Class A neighborhood retail centers and office developments.