Job Title: Assistant Controller 

Reports to: Controller

Location: Houston, TX / hybrid

Summary

We are a private equity-backed multi-entity emergency care and community health platform looking for a hands-on Assistant Controller to own the execution and quality of our close. You will lead a back-office accounting team, review facility books, consolidation and intercompany, and make sure results are timely, accurate and GAAP-compliant. You will also be the internal point of contact for our external tax advisors.

Role & Responsibilities:

Close and facility books

• Lead the monthly, quarterly and annual close across all entities and own the close calendar
• Review back-office entries, facility trial balances, P&L trends and balance sheet reconciliations; resolve anomalies and aged items before close
• Review accruals, prepaids, fixed assets, lease accounting (ASC 842) and payroll and incentive accruals
• Review budget-to-actual and month-over-month flux and explain significant variances

Consolidation and intercompany

• Review the consolidation, eliminations, non-controlling interest and the consolidated equity roll forward
• Prepare the consolidated cash flow statement and review the consolidated financial statements before Controller sign-off
• Evaluate accounting for new entities, acquisitions and divestitures, including consolidation and purchase accounting
• Prepare the monthly intercompany reconciliation and confirm charges follow approved intercompany arrangements

Revenue recognition

• Review net patient revenue under ASC 606, including implicit price concessions, true-ups and personal injury revenue and reserves
• Review billing system (GoRev) and cash receipt reconciliations to the GL and partner with Revenue Cycle on collection trends

AP, treasury and tax oversight

• Oversee the AP and treasury functions' accounting: AP subledger and bank reconciliations, reconciling items, and support for borrowing base and covenant reporting
• Act as the internal point of contact for external tax advisors: return and K-1 tracking, estimates, notices and workpapers

Controls, audit and systems

• Run internal accounting controls, the annual audit and PBC deliverables, disclosures and remediation of findings
• Research technical accounting matters and write memos for Controller review
• Support NetSuite integrity, cost allocations, entity profitability reporting and close automation

Team leadership

• Direct, train and review the back-office bookkeeping team and outsourced accounting partners
• Partner with FP&A and operations, and serve as the Controller's backup

Educational Qualifications:  

• Bachelor's in accounting
• 7+ years in accounting, including public accounting and 2+ years leading a close team
• Multi-entity consolidation experience, including intercompany and non-controlling interest
• Strong US GAAP knowledge, including ASC 606 and ASC 842
• NetSuite or a similar ERP; advanced Excel

Preferred: Healthcare revenue recognition (net patient revenue, implicit price concessions); Big 4 background; acquisition and purchase accounting; experience managing offshore or outsourced teams.