Assistant Controller

GFL Environmental Inc. • $85K — $110K *
Sugar Land, TX 77479In-Person
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • 4-year Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a quantitative field; CPA or MBA preferred for elite candidates.
  • 5+ years in progressive financial management, ideally in waste management or related sectors.
  • Experience leading and developing transactional accounting or billing teams.
  • Proven track record of improving processes and structures in accounting departments.
  • Skilled in analyzing and organizing complex datasets.

Responsibilities

  • Direct day-to-day management of the general ledger close, AP, AR/Collections, and Billing teams.
  • Cultivate strong relationships across office and field teams, focused on coaching and trust.
  • Drive team performance and morale during restructurings and technology transitions.
  • Oversee the regional monthly close process with strict adherence to deadlines.
  • Conduct detailed monthly variance analyses to compare budget, forecast, and actuals.
  • Develop and present comprehensive financial analyses and reports to regional leadership.
  • Own the regional AR aging pipeline and resolve billing issues with related teams.

Benefits

  • Competitive wages with overtime opportunities.
  • Comprehensive benefits package.
  • 401(k) matching and profit-sharing.
  • Paid time off to promote work-life balance.
  • Employee Assistance Program for additional support.
  • Opportunities for professional growth and advancement.
Full Job Description
What's in it for you:
  • Competitive wages
  • Overtime available
  • Comprehensive benefits package
  • 401(k) matching and profit sharing
  • Paid time off
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Growth and advancement opportunities


What you'll do:
  • Provide direct day-to-day management, mentorship, and accountability for the general ledger close, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable/Collections, and the Billing department.
  • Build strong relational equity with both office personnel and field operations, ensuring a leadership style focused on coaching, development, and mutual trust.
  • Drive performance and maintain high team morale through corporate restructurings or technology transitions, ensuring the transactional team successfully adapts to modernized workflows.
  • Directly own and execute the regional monthly close process, ensuring strict adherence to head office deadlines.
  • Consolidate, analyze, and provide rigorous monthly variance analysis (Budget vs. Forecast vs. Actual).
  • Mentor and leverage senior accounting staff to develop robust, post-close variance analysis and clean, executive-level financial slide decks comparing regional performance to Budget and Prior Year.
  • Guard the regional revenue pipeline by auditing the multi-system flow between the current billing system, general ledger, and AP platforms.
  • Ensure accurate daily and weekly reconciliation of unbilled vs. invoiced revenue to prevent margin leakage.
  • Provide robust financial and operational analysis to regional leadership, with a targeted focus on profitability outliers.
  • Own the regional AR aging pipeline. Partner directly with Billing, Collections, and Service Contract teams to identify the root causes of billing errors and credit rebills to structurally reduce regional DSO.
  • Act as the regional financial champion for the upcoming 6-12 month migration from legacy billing systems to OMS.
  • Map legacy workflows, train supervisory staff, and eliminate manual data processing bottlenecks to ensure the transactional teams are fully prepared for system updates.
  • Observe and document data workflows, identifying system gaps and ensuring clean billing and price-grid compliance during the platform transition.
  • Partner with the Regional Controller to draft technical data specifications for centralized corporate business intelligence analysts to build automated Power BI dashboards.
  • Utilize modern data platforms, advanced scripting, and AI tools (such as Google Workspace and Gemini) to design creative, out-of-the-box solutions that bridge reporting gaps during the system transition.

What's required:
  • Mandatory 4-year Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a highly analytical/quantitative discipline. CPA or MBA preferred but not required for an operationally elite candidate.
  • 5+ years of progressive accounting or financial management experience, ideally within the waste management, industrial services, oil & gas logistics, or trucking/transportation sectors.
  • Proven success leading, developing, and earning the trust of transactional accounting or operational billing teams. Must demonstrate clear success as an agent of change who has successfully modified departmental structures or processes.
  • A documented history of successfully navigating, deciphering, and building order within abstract, fragmented, or multi-source datasets.
  • Ability to stand toe-to-toe with Sales and Field Operations leaders to review results, audit operational statistics, and decisively implement process changes.


What's required:
  • Office environment primarily located in Sugar Land, TX.
  • Weekly travel required to the Baytown, TX operational billing office. Ability to travel as needed to other regional field locations across the Central, South, and East Districts.
  • Periodic overtime is expected during critical monthly closes and high-stakes system migration phases.

About GFL Environmental Inc.

GFL Environmental Inc. is a Canadian waste management company that provides a wide range of environmental services to customers in Canada and the United States. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Vaughan, Ontario. GFL Environmental Inc. operates a fleet of more than 10,000 vehicles and employs over 17,000 people. The company's services include solid waste collection, recycling, soil remediation, and liquid waste management. GFL Environmental Inc. is committed to sustainability and has implemented a number of initiatives to reduce its environmental impact.
Learn more about GFL Environmental Inc.
Size
18,000 employees
Market Cap
$12.8 billion
Industry
Energy & Utilities
5 Year Trend
+42.7%
NASDAQ
GFL
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