Controller

Title: Controller

Reports to: Chief Financial Officer

Compensation: $200k-$225k 30% bonus equity

Location: Fort Worth, TX (Full-time on-site)

Please email your Word document to dan.c@conexusrecruiting.com and reference the subject – “Fort Worth - Controller Opportunity”

Company:

A privately held, private equity-backed upstream energy company has partnered with Conexus to add a Controller to its leadership team. The organization is led by an experienced management group with a strong track record of building, scaling, and successfully monetizing energy platforms.

Purpose Of Your Position:

The Controller will report directly to the CFO and lead the accounting and financial reporting organization. This individual will oversee the day-to-day accounting function while serving as a hands-on partner to senior management. The role will inherit an established accounting team and benefit from a meaningful transition period with the current Controller, creating continuity as the organization moves into its next stage of growth.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead the accounting organization and maintain ownership of the company's financial reporting and core accounting activities.
• Direct accounting operations associated with an upstream oil and gas business, ensuring financial information is accurate, complete, and delivered on schedule.
• Manage the monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes while continually improving the efficiency and consistency of the close.
• Provide leadership, coaching, and oversight to the accounting team, including an experienced Assistant Controller.
• Partner closely with the CFO and broader executive team on financial, operational, and strategic matters.
• Maintain an effective internal control environment and strengthen accounting policies, procedures, and documentation as the business evolves.
• Support management reporting, financial analysis, and other information needed to evaluate business performance and inform decision-making.
• Coordinate with external audit, tax, banking, investment, and other third-party partners.
• Provide accounting leadership around acquisitions, divestitures, capital transactions, and other strategic initiatives.
• Help establish scalable accounting processes and infrastructure capable of supporting the organization's next investment and growth cycle.
• Work collaboratively with the outgoing Controller during the transition period to preserve institutional knowledge and ensure an orderly transfer of responsibilities.
• Serve as a hands-on financial leader who can operate effectively within a lean organization while remaining closely connected to the underlying business.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline.
• 7-15 years of progressive accounting experience, including meaningful leadership responsibility.
• Substantial accounting experience within the upstream oil and gas industry.
• Prior experience leading or having significant responsibility for a company's accounting function at the Controller or comparable level.
• Strong knowledge of financial reporting, general accounting operations, and monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes.
• Strong technical accounting foundation with the ability to apply accounting guidance to complex business matters.
• Experience managing and developing accounting professionals within a lean organizational structure.
• Ability to communicate effectively and work closely with executive leadership and other business stakeholders.
• Comfort operating in an entrepreneurial environment where senior accounting leaders remain actively involved in both strategic and day-to-day matters.
• CPA preferred.
• Experience within a private equity-backed organization, transaction environment, or business undergoing a significant ownership or platform transition is preferred.