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Corporate Controller
Mansfield, Texas, United States
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The main opportunity is a Corporate Controller role with Sentrimax Centrifuges in Mansfield, TX, and it is considerably broader than a traditional accounting Controller position.

At a high level

  • Company: Sentrimax Centrifuges — industrial services/MRO company specializing in centrifuge repair, maintenance, rentals, parts and sales.
  • Ownership: Private-equity backed. Sentrimax was acquired in March 2025 by Strive Equity Partners, with Fruition Capital involved.
  • Operations: 3 locations — Mansfield, TX; Edmonton, Alberta; and Kitchener, Ontario.
  • Role: Corporate Controller / senior accounting leader.
  • Location: Primarily on-site in Mansfield, with some potential for partial remote work after the person is fully integrated. Travel to the Canadian locations and PE/board meetings is expected.
  • Reporting to: CEO and the PE sponsor's finance lead.
  • Future potential: The position could evolve into a CFO role as the company grows.

What they really want this person to do

This is a hands-on operational Controller, not simply someone overseeing the accounting department.

The person will own:

  • Financial reportingMonthly/quarterly/year-end close
  • Consolidated U.S. GAAP reporting
  • Canadian accounting considerations
  • Intercompany eliminations and multi-currency accounting
  • Management reporting and KPI dashboards
  • Epicor Kinetic / ERPBecome the functional owner of Epicor Kinetic Financials.
  • Oversee multi-site/multi-company accounting.
  • Manage project accounting, job costing, WIP, revenue recognition and project margins.
  • Improve systems, processes and data integrity.
  • Budgeting & forecastingAnnual budgets for each location and consolidated company
  • Rolling P&L, balance sheet and cash-flow forecasts
  • Analyze project/site profitability
  • Support pricing and bid decisions
  • Working capital & cashAR/collections and AP
  • DSO/DPO
  • Cash forecasting
  • Bank/credit-line activity
  • Inventory and WIP
  • FX exposure between the U.S. and Canada
  • Private-equity supportPE reporting packages
  • Lender reporting
  • Board materials
  • Value-creation initiatives
  • Potential add-on acquisitions and integration work.

Ideal candidate

They're looking for someone with:

  • 8+ years accounting/finance experience
  • 3–5 years as a Controller or similar leader
  • Multi-site experience
  • Industrial services, field services, construction or project-based manufacturing experience
  • PE-backed/highly leveraged company experience is a big plus
  • Epicor Kinetic/Epicor ERP experience is strongly preferred
  • Strong U.S. GAAP knowledge
  • Advanced Excel/modeling skills
  • Bachelor's in Accounting, Finance or related field
  • CPA strongly preferred

The personality they're after

Probably just as important as the technical requirements:

Hands-on, entrepreneurial, process-oriented and comfortable getting into the weeds.

They need someone who can both lead the accounting team and personally perform individual-contributor work. They want someone who can tighten the close, improve systems/data, work directly with operations and communicate financial information to non-financial executives.


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