What are the responsibilities and job description for the Assistant Controller position at Hoxton Circle?
***This position is in-office between Edison, NJ and Midtown Manhattan 5 days a week***
*** There is a 30-minute bus between Edison and Midtown***
A well-established New Jersey-based contractor is hiring for a newly created Assistant Controller role — and the story behind it is worth reading.
The path to Controller here is real, near-term, and explicit — not a maybe, and not a maybe in five years.
📌 What Makes This Opportunity Compelling
- Institutional backing
- 90% repeat business
- A CFO who will personally mentor this hire
- A fast-growing NJ data center book puts this business on a compelling upward trajectory
📌 What the Role Involves
- Driving key components of the monthly close process
- Owning account reconciliation for critical accounts and escalating exceptions with clear documentation
- Managing banking activity, including payment file preparation and release
- Supporting internal audit and external reporting requirements
- Identifying opportunities to improve reporting visibility across workpapers and system outputs
- Partnering with the Accounting team and Project Operations on day-to-day accounting issues
- Taking on special projects from senior finance leadership as the business grows
✅ Ideal Candidate Profile
- 5 years of accounting experience with strong analytical capability
- Public accounting audit/assurance experience from a Big 4 or Top 10 firm
- Experience at a public company or highly controlled environment that requred GAAP compliance, SOX awareness, reporting to parent company, etc.
- Experience with job costing and WIP reporting a plus
- Ability to travel between NJ and NYC offices as needed
***This position is in-office between Edison, NJ and Midtown Manhattan 5 days a week***
*** There is a 30-minute bus between Edison and Midtown***
If this sounds like the kind of work that excites you, we'd love to hear from you. Please apply!
Salary : $115,000 - $140,000