Corporate Controller

About Us

Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, TEC has 30+ locations from Seattle to San Diego to the Midwest, serving thousands of customers across Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona, Nebraska, Iowa and South Dakota.

TEC Equipment features Mack and Volvo heavy-duty trucks, Hino and Isuzu medium duty trucks, Stoughton trailers and Cottrell auto transport trailers. We offer a large and desirable inventory of new Mack and Volvo heavy-duty trucks and all makes of used trucks. Our full-service line-up also features quality parts, state-of-the-art service, collision centers and fuel, leasing/rental, financing, and insurance. Our locations are authorized service centers for Mack, Volvo, Cummins, Meritor, Eaton and Fuller warranties. TEC truly offers the convenience of one-stop shopping for all trucking-related needs.

Overview

The Corporate Controller is a senior finance leader at TEC Equipment, reporting to the Chief Financial Officer and based at the Portland Oregon Corporate Headquarters. TEC has grown from $250M to $1B in the past decade and intends to double or triple in scale over the next 10 to 15 years. The Controller owns the day-to-day financial and accounting operations that make that growth possible — while building the discipline, controls, and reporting infrastructure required at 2x-3x scale.

This is not a technical accounting role alone. The Controller is a partner to the CFO and to the operating business, holding financial discipline where it needs to be held, translating operational reality into accurate financial results, and building an accounting function that scales with the enterprise. The right leader will bring deep technical mastery of GAAP, close cycle, controls, and audit — and will be measured equally on their ability to lead a team of 25+, partner across operating and enterprise functions, drive change through systems and process transitions (including the ongoing Proceed ERP implementation), and hold financial discipline in a family-owned business at a generational moment.

The Controller works closely with the Executive Leadership Team, the Thompson family Council, external auditors, and the leaders of all business units across leasing, parts, service, truck sales, trailer sales, and TEC Development. This person is expected to conduct themselves and make decisions in full alignment with TEC's Vision, Mission, Values, and Culture at all times.

Responsibilities

Own the day-to-day accounting operations including General Ledger, Fixed Asset, Inventory, Payroll, and Accounts Payable and Receivable, ensuring accuracy, discipline, and timely delivery across every entity in TEC's consolidated structure.

Lead the monthly, quarterly, and annual close cycles. Deliver accurate financial results on committed timelines. Continuously improve the close cycle to prepare the accounting function for TEC at 2x and 3x current scale.

Deliver high-quality financial and accounting services to internal and external stakeholders, including Thompson family ownership, the Executive Leadership Team, lenders, auditors, and operating leaders across all business units. Partner across the enterprise as an active contributor to business decisions, not as a downstream service provider.

Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual reserve analysis using rigorous techniques to evaluate risk and ensure compliance with US GAAP. Hold the analytical discipline required in a capital-intensive business with active covenant relationships.

Develop and maintain critical accounting policies, procedures, and templates. Build the documentation and process discipline that supports clean audit outcomes and scales with enterprise growth. Determine the accounting treatment for material transactions in partnership with the CFO.

Maintain deep working knowledge of US GAAP and financial reporting standards. Serve as a technical accounting leader alongside the CFO. Be the person the operating business trusts to explain what the accounting treatment is and why it matters.

Lead the Annual External Audit process end to end. Deliver clean, timely audit outcomes. Build and maintain a strong working relationship with the audit firm engagement team.

Own external financial reporting, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and timely delivery. Contribute to the development of reporting formats that translate financial results into clear, decision-oriented information for the Council, the ELT, lenders, and other stakeholders.

Develop and manage internal financial reporting aligned with operational needs. Deliver timely, actionable information to business unit leaders and enterprise partners. Translate operational reality into financial results, and translate financial results back into operational insight.

Analyze financial information and provide recommendations to leadership on opportunities to improve profitability, manage risk, and support the growth thesis. Bring a strategic perspective to the accounting seat — not just what happened, but what it means and what should change.

Own the Corporate Accounting P&L including the accounting function's operating costs, and manage the function's cost discipline as the enterprise scales.

Own quarterly debt covenant compliance reporting and forward-looking covenant forecasting. Partner closely with the CFO on lender-facing reporting and covenant amendment processes. Bring the accounting seat's discipline to a critical, ongoing responsibility.

Partner with the CFO on monthly cash forecasting and prior-month forecast variance analysis. Build the cash discipline required for a capital-intensive business with active lender relationships.

Develop and maintain internal controls to ensure accuracy and compliance with US GAAP and TEC's internal policies. Build the control environment appropriate to a $1B enterprise scaling to 2x-3x, not the environment appropriate to today.

Partner with the CFO to ensure proper controls over disbursements, employee-related transactions, and all matters where financial risk intersects with people risk.

Own the accounting integrity of physical inventory across truck sales, parts, trailer sales, and lease and rental fleets. Lead the periodic inventory validation processes. Hold the accounting discipline required to accurately value inventory, identify aging and impairment concerns, and recommend write-downs when the analysis supports them — in partnership with the CFO and operating leaders, but with the accounting seat's voice fully expressed regardless of operational pressure.

Partner with the CFO and operating leaders to maintain appropriate segregation of duties across all financial transactions. Ensure the accounting function is positioned to identify and escalate issues without conflict of interest.

Serve as the accounting seat's primary point of contact for financial risk matters that require Council-level visibility. Escalate through the CFO to the Finance Committee of the Thompson Family Council when the situation warrants.

Own the accounting function's engagement with the Proceed ERP implementation through go-live (November 17, 2026) and the 90-day post-implementation stabilization period. Partner with the CIO, the finance team, and the operating business to ensure the finance-side workflows are ready, tested, and stable through cutover.

Lead the accounting side of ongoing systems evolution — chart of accounts, close cycle, financial reporting, controls, and integrations. Bring the discipline required to make systems investments produce actual improvement, not just replacement of existing pain with new pain.

Drive process improvement across the accounting function. Identify and eliminate manual workarounds, single-person dependencies, and scale constraints. Build the operating disciplines that support the enterprise TEC is becoming.

Lead change management within the accounting team through systems transitions, workflow changes, and process improvements. Communicate what is changing and why.