Controller in Manchester, New Hampshire at Riverstone Resources

Summary

The Controller reports to the Chief Corporate Operations Officer & Chief Financial Officer and leads RiverStone’s Finance department. The role is fully accountable for accounting and controllership, IFRS and Statutory reporting, financial planning and budgeting, capital and liquidity management, treasury and investment accounting, reinsurance accounting, expense management, and the financial evaluation and financing of acquisitions.

Essential Functions

Leadership & Strategy

• Serves as the CFO’s leader of Finance; acts on the CFO’s behalf as required and contributes to company-wide strategy as a member of the senior leadership team.
• Creates, guides and implements Finance department goals, objectives, policies and operating procedures aligned with overall corporate goals.
• Designs, establishes and maintains an organizational structure, staffing mix and succession bench that enable the department to meet its strategic goals.
• Fosters the development of direct reports and the broader Finance team by providing growth opportunities, stretch assignments and development plans.
• Forecasts resources needed to accomplish business goals; leads and communicates change initiatives.
• Recognizes the onset of potential problems and takes appropriate action to prevent exposure or risk to the company.

Controllership & Financial Reporting

• Directs the preparation of all internal and external financial reports, including IFRS and Statutory reporting, monthly management reporting and Fairfax reporting.
• Owns the month-, quarter- and year-end close, ensuring accurate and timely recording of all transactions across general ledger, investments, treasury and reinsurance accounting.
• Safeguards company assets by maintaining a strong internal control environment; develops, improves and implements policies and procedures for the recording, documentation and tracking of financial matters.
• Ensures compliance with local, state and federal financial, statutory and regulatory reporting requirements.
• Oversees the coordination of financial audits and regulatory examinations and provides recommendations for procedural improvements.
• Partners with Actuarial, Claims and Reinsurance colleagues on the financial reporting of loss reserves, reinsurance recoverable and related balances.
• Leads finance systems and process improvement, including AI, ERP and reporting tools, to improve accuracy, efficiency and timeliness.

Managing Vision and Purpose: Communicates a compelling and inspired vision or sense of core purpose; talks beyond today; talks about possibilities; is optimistic; creates mileposts and symbols to rally support behind the vision; makes the vision sharable by everyone; can inspire and motivate entire units or organizations.

Integrity and Trust: Is widely trusted; is seen as a direct, truthful individual; can present the unvarnished truth in an appropriate and helpful manner; keeps confidences; admits mistakes; doesn't misrepresent him/herself for personal gain.

Developing Direct Reports and Others: Provides challenging and stretching tasks and assignments; holds frequent development discussions; is aware of each person’s career goals; constructs compelling development plans and executes them; pushes people to accept developmental moves; will take on those who need help and further development; cooperates with the developmental system in the organization; is a people builder.

Building Effective Teams: Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong morale and spirit in his/her team; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.

Conflict Management: Steps up to conflicts, seeing them as opportunities; reads situations quickly, good at focused listening; can hammer out tough agreements and settle disputes equitably; can find common ground and get cooperation with minimum noise.

Organizational Agility: Knowledgeable about how organizations work; knows how to get things done both through formal channels and the informal network; understands the origin and reasoning behind key policies, practices, and procedures; understands the cultures of organizations.

Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn't upset when things are up in the air; doesn't have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.

Innovation Management: Is good at bringing the creative ideas of others to market; has good judgment about which creative ideas and suggestions will work; has a sense about managing the creative process of others; can facilitate effective brainstorming; can project how potential ideas may play out in the marketplace.