Sparano + Mooney Architecture is hiring an experienced, motivated, creative and dedicated Financial Controller to join our Salt Lake City, Utah team. As the Controller, you will bring professionalism, integrity, financial rigor and a collaborative approach to the position, and will be a vital part of our leadership team. You will work closely with our firm’s Partners to guide our financial strategy, support our project teams, clients and consultants, and evolve our best practices in accounting and finance. This role involves both big-picture financial strategy and hands-on accounting/bookkeeping work.

If you’re an experienced financial professional who enjoys partnering with a creative team we would love to hear from you, or for you to share this call-out with someone who might be a great fit!

Reporting to the firm’s Partners, the responsibilities of this position include:

• Providing fiscal leadership, vision and guidance for the firm’s Partners and staff. You will lead the financial aspects of the office and be an integral part of the leadership team.
• Maintaining and development of fiscal control systems that respond to the evolving needs of our projects, our clients and the firm’s business operations.
• Payroll and benefits, project accounting processes, billing activities, accounts receivable, collections and accounts payable.
• Accurate and timely financial reporting as well as budgeting and other financial forecasting needs of the firm.
• Maintaining effective internal controls and oversight of the firm’s treasury, tax, accounting, fixed assets, employee onboarding and benefit programs (HR), insurance policies and ownership transition processes.
• Maintaining compliance with all applicable federal, state and local laws and tax filings.

Qualifications

• You hold a Bachelor’s degree.
• An Accounting degree is desirable, as is a demonstrated background in business administration and/or an MBA degree.

• You have a minimum of 5+ years of full-time work experience in financial leadership roles with a preference for experience in architecture or engineering or a similar professional-services environment.
• You have a proven track record of multi-tasking and meeting deadlines.
• You communicate effectively in writing and speech, with a talent for simplifying complex technical details.
• You have advanced experience working with QuickBooks and Excel.
• You are able to think strategically and are willing to design, iterate, and refine accounting and financial tasks to best suit the evolving needs of our practice.
• You bring a positive attitude and are reliable, trustworthy, dedicated, detail-oriented and highly organized.

This position will suit a detail-oriented, focused individual who is highly motivated and proactive. The ability to work as part of a team as well as individually in a fast-paced creative studio environment is a must. Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills are essential, as the candidate will need to liaise with clients, suppliers, HR professionals and employees regularly, and will also need to coordinate information with the outside CPA when required.

Commitment

• This position is in-office, flexible work schedules may be accommodated (30-40 hours per week preferred).

Benefits:

• We offer a competitive salary and benefits package.
• Employees may enroll in our 401(k) retirement plan with a company contribution.
• Employees may receive a discretionary profit-sharing contribution.
• Employees accrue PTO and paid holidays.
• Our firm has a continuing education benefit.
• We offer a core culture that supports a work-life balance.

Application Process:

Please submit a Resume, Cover Letter (including salary history) and three (3) References to careers@sparanomooney.com.

A background check will be required prior to confirmation of employment.

Incomplete applications will not be considered. Due to the volume of applications, please understand we will only be able to contact candidates we plan to interview. No phone calls, please.

Firm Profile:

Sparano + Mooney Architecture is an award-winning architectural design firm with offices in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Los Angeles, California. Our team is comprised of multifaceted and dedicated colleagues from many backgrounds, perspectives, and cultures with a shared commitment to excellence and exceeding our clients’ expectations. We offer a collaborative model in which all team members, regardless of their position, are valued for their unique input.

Diversity has consistently been a key value of our inclusive hiring practices. We celebrate and support all members of our creative and administrative team and provide an equal opportunity workplace regardless of race, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability or veteran status.

Thank you in advance for submitting your qualifications and we look forward to meeting you!

Website: https://www.sparanomooney.com/

Instagram: @sparanomooneyarchitecture

About Sparano + Mooney Architecture

Sparano + Mooney Architecture is a community of architects and craftspeople in the American West. Established in 1997 by John Sparano, FAIA, and Anne Mooney, FAIA, NCARB, LEED AP, the practice has been consistently recognized for design excellence, has received over 50 design and honor awards, and has been featured in publications and exhibitions around the world. Sparano + Mooney Architecture was named the 2017 American Institute of Architects Western Mountain Regional Architectural Firm of the Year and the 2013 American Institute of Architects Utah Architectural Firm of the Year. A monograph of the firm’s work titled "Sparano + Mooney Architecture: A Way of Working" has been published by Hatje Cantz (Berlin: 2022). Together with a dedicated team, Sparano + Mooney Architecture is a collective of architects, clients, colleagues, makers and like-minded peers that shares a passion for design and sustainability in all that they do. The practice has grown steadily since its inception through the process of rigorous critical thinking and the completion of a wide range of architectural solutions. Carefully crafted at multiple scales, for various functions and to elicit a multitude ...of emotions, their work catalyzes the idiosyncrasies of each project to create a concept-driven design in the pursuit of architecture true to its time, place and circumstances. From micro off-the-grid projects, adaptive re-use of historic structures, and new-build institutional, commercial, cultural and worship buildings, to residential, civic, recreation and mixed-use projects, as well as master planning and urban design ventures, their portfolio of contemporary design work can be found throughout California, Utah, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico and beyond. The firm’s ethos is one of limitless exploration and an unwavering commitment to the heuristic process in creating architecture rooted firmly in meaning. With each project, the practice examines new ways to harmonize a regulating concept with the existing conditions of a site, program and fundamental building functions. Rather than imposing preconceived notions onto unique sites and environmental conditions, the eccentricities of any given program and site become the point of departure for that foundational idea. While anchoring each work in its specific circumstance, Sparano + Mooney Architecture endeavors to obtain a more meaningful response to one of the essential questions of architecture: Why?

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