Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Controller to join our finance team and support our growing company. This position will collaborate with senior leaders to shape the organization’s financial direction and oversee the professional development of the finance team.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in financial management, strategic planning, and team leadership. The Controller will be responsible for the company’s accounting practices, preparing consolidated monthly financial statements, and maintaining internal control systems. They will analyze financial data to evaluate profitability, ensure budget adherence, and monitor other key indicators, serving as the primary contact for the parent company and auditors to facilitate timely audits.

Additionally, the Controller will manage staff development, adjust financial controls, and create financial policies that align with Fairweather's goals. They will support department leaders with developing budgets and forecasting, update financial systems, and support the team in implementing new software to improve reporting accuracy and operational efficiency. Ultimately, they will monitor financial performance, align metrics with operational goals, provide insights to Fairweather's senior management, and work closely with the parent company's finance leadership team.

Established in 1976, Fairweather LLC is an Alaska-based service support company. That approach is directly responsible for Fairweather’s growth over the past four decades. Responding to the growth of the emerging oil and gas industry, Fairweather expanded its operations to include several highly sought-after support services designed to support exploration and production activities. These services include advanced logistics and drilling support, regulatory and permitting management, remote medical support, meteorological and oceanographic forecasting, aviation and airstrip support, and workforce staffing. 

Fairweather is owned by Doyon, Limited , an Alaska Native regional corporation. We continue to be committed to meeting the industry's highest standards and ensuring the needs of every project are met safely and efficiently while being The Most Trusted Company in Alaska.

Benefits 

You will enjoy the advantages of a small company atmosphere while benefiting from the resources of a large corporation. Our culture is built on trust, collaboration, and a supportive, friendly work environment. We offer competitive pay and benefits, including paid time off, federal health benefits, dental and vision insurance, flexible spending, life insurance, and a 401(k) plan.

Voluntary benefits include accidental insurance, hospital insurance, critical illness coverage, and short/long-term disability insurance.

Responsible for preparation and publication of consolidated financial statements

• Oversee, review and publish monthly consolidated and consolidating financials consistent with GAAP
• Work with external auditors and Corporate Accounting to plan and oversee the annual component audit
• Work with Corporate Tax Department to assure financial information is available for optimal federal and state income tax law compliance
• Prepare financial reports for Board meetings

  Responsible for preparation and publication of consolidated financial budget

• Oversee, review and publish annual consolidated and consolidating budgets
• Review subsidiary budgets

Assure protection of company assets

• Assist President and General Manager in all aspects of risk management
• Oversee maintenance of fixed asset records
• Monitor internal controls and compliance with company and corporate policies

Supervise accounting staff

• Establish policies and procedures to assure efficient processing of accounting data, information flow, and appropriate level of internal controls
• Responsible for the training and development of staff
• Work closely with the corporate accounting team

Project and monitor cash flow

• Work with company management and other staff to project and manage cash flow
• Supervise the process of cash collection and disbursement and assure proper accounting of all transactions

Additional Responsibilities

• Oversee management of accounting consolidating software
• Other duties

CORE COMPETENCIES:

Commitment to Excellence – Identifies what needs to be done and takes action to achieve a standard of excellence beyond job expectations.

Corporate Values - Understand, embraces, and integrates Doyon corporate values into everyday duties and responsibilities.

Customer Service – Identifies and responds to current and future client needs by providing excellent service to internal and external clients.

Safety and Security – Promotes a safe work environment for co-workers and customers.

Teamwork – Resourceful team player that builds, strengthens, and maintains collaborative relationships with others inside or outside the organization.

JOB SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES:

Analytical Skills - Visualizes, articulates and solves a variety of problems and concepts and makes appropriate decisions based on available information

Attention to Detail - Ensures one's own and other's work and information are complete and accurate

Communication Skills - Listens, writes, and speaks effectively, and positively relates and interacts with co-workers and others

Decision Making - Makes choices or reaches conclusions by establishing objectives, gathering relevant information, identifying alternatives, setting criteria for the decision, and selecting the best option

Employee Development - Effective in the recruitment, selection, development, and retention of competent staff members

Financial Management - Applies critical financial concepts and practices to establish and maintain realistic budgets

Leadership - Maintains a productive climate and confidently motivates, mobilizes, and coaches employees to meet high performance standards and goals

Management - Plans, organizes, directs, monitors, and controls a group of one or more employees or one or more entities to accomplish organizational goals and objectives

Problem Solving - Anticipates and identifies problems, distinguishes between symptoms and causes, and determines alternative solutions involving varied levels of complexity, ambiguity and risk.

Process Improvement – Manages, leads and enables the process of change and transition while helping others to deal with the process.

Reporting - Generates reports that are accurate, objective and complete in a timely manner

Strategic Implementation/Thinking - Formulates effective strategies consistent with the business and competitive strategies, examines policy issues and strategic planning with a long term perspective, determines objectives, sets priorities, and anticipates potential threats or opportunities

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, required
• Ten years of progressively responsible accounting experience
• Five years leading and managing others
• Certified Public Accountant, preferred 

WORKING ENVIRONMENT: The majority of work is performed in a professional office setting with a wide variety of people with differing functions, personalities and abilities

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The work is generally sedentary, requiring routine walking, standing, bending and carrying items weighing less than forty pounds. [Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions].

REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION: It is Doyon’s business philosophy and practice to provide reasonable accommodations, according to applicable state and federal laws, to all qualified individuals with physical or mental disabilities.

PREFERENCE STATEMENT:   Doyon grants preference to qualified Doyon Shareholders first, and second to qualified shareholders of other Alaska Native corporations that grant a similar preference in all phases of employment and training, which include, but are not limited to hiring, promotion, layoff, transfer, and training.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employee(s) will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments.

A review of this position has excluded marginal functions of the position that are incidental to the performance of fundamental job duties. All duties and responsibilities are essential job functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbent(s) will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities.

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