Senior Project Controller
Description
RK Company Overview
RK Industries is a second-generation family-owned company led by brothers Rick and Jon Kinning. With seven specialized business units working together, we deliver construction, fabrication, manufacturing, and building services with a focus on safety, quality, and craftsmanship.
People join RK for the craftsmanship, complexity, and the ability to make a real impact. Our in-house capabilities mean employees see their ideas become real solutions, creating meaningful collaboration and clear visibility into how work gets built. Growth happens through challenging projects, mentorship from experienced builders, and opportunities that stretch your skill set.
With RK University, accredited apprenticeships, competitive benefits, and deep community investment, RK offers the stability of a family-owned company with the opportunity and momentum of an industry leader.
Summary of Duties:
The Senior Project Controller is responsible for overseeing the financial health and performance of complex projects throughout their lifecycle. This role partners closely with project management and operations teams to manage budgets, forecasts, cost controls, billing, reporting, and financial analysis, ensuring projects are delivered profitably and in alignment with company objectives. The Senior Project Controller provides strategic financial guidance, identifies risks and opportunities, and drives accountability through accurate reporting, forecasting, and performance monitoring.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Customer invoicing on GMP projects. Work with the project executives and project managers to assist with the monthly invoice to the customer, to ensure the amounts are incompliance with the contract and customer expectations to facilitate prompt payment
- Create a full understanding of the contract to determine the most likely scenario for the final GMP total
- Forecast the monthly spend on the large contracts
- Understand and participate in monthly pro-score meetings
- Participate in monthly project budget variance meetings
- Strong understanding of Work in Process schedule
- Work closely and develop relationships with operational managers to meet financial support needs
- Ad-hoc financial analysis and process improvements as required.
Primary Career Level: Professional
- College/University graduate with a bachelor’s degree. Accounting degree preferred
- Strong Excel skills required (Tables, Pivot Tables, Functions, etc.)
- Minimum of 5 years’ relevant experience.
- Professional accounting experience a strong plus, CPA or CMA
- Experience in construction or manufacturing.
- Vista ERP experience a plus but not required.
- Capable of independent work, history of continual process improvement in delivery of financial requirements.
Opportunity:
- Opportunity to implement new processes or change processes to improve delivery of financial information.
- Opportunity to work with senior management of the organization.
Minimum Physical Requirements:
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to: stand, sit, talk, hear, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer, telephone, and a variety of office equipment.
- Occasionally may need to reach, stoop, or kneel.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision requirements due to computer work.
Accountability:
- Comply with all company policies and procedures.
- All employees are accountable for safety and health and are empowered to stop work if an unsafe condition is present. Employees should immediately notify their supervisor so that the hazard may be corrected.
- RK Industries employees are required to implement and maintain all safety and health systems practices including the training requirements.
What Sets RK Industries Apart
- Safety: Our unmatched culture of safety is our foremost core value, guiding everything we do each day: Health, Safety, & Environmental
- Awards: Whether in Construction, Manufacturing, Fabrication, or Service, RK Industries is highly recognized and accredited throughout the industry: Accreditations & Recognition
- Benefits: RK Industries offers competitive benefits to support your growth and well-being: Benefits & Rewards
- Philanthropy: RK Industries not only builds our community through our projects, but also invests in it by supporting local services for over a decade through the RK Foundation: RK Foundation
- Development: Through RK University, we provide hands-on training and development opportunities that empower employees to advance their careers and grow within the company, to include leadership and technical learning opportunities, we well as our accredited apprentice program: RK University & RK Apprenticeship Program
Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis
RK Industries, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other status protected by applicable law