Are you a strategic financial leader ready to make a meaningful impact? RRM Design Group is seeking a Controller.

The Controller will report directly to the COO. This role offers the opportunity to manage all accounting activities while leading and mentoring a talented accounting team. As Controller, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping our company’s culture and driving long-term strategic growth. This is truly a career-defining opportunity.

At RRM Design Group, we’re more than just a design firm; we’re a purpose-driven, employee-owned company that values collaboration, innovation, and people. Join us in building environments people enjoy, while helping build the financial foundation that supports our future.

Why RRM?

• We’re an employee-owned firm with a collaborative, respectful, and innovative culture
• You’ll work directly with the COO and leadership team to influence company-wide strategy
• We offer flexibility, professional development, and a supportive environment

Your role looks like:

• Oversee and manage audits including 401k, worker’s compensation, ICR Indirect Cost Rate Audit (FAR), accounting processes, and internal controls.
• Collaborate with workgroup principals, market sector leaders, fellow managers, and associates in updating and fulfilling the Strategic Plan goals.
• Review Acquisitions Regulation (FAR) billing rates, and financial statements.
• Maintain and develop annual budgets and Business Plan structure.
• Prepare Month-End and Year-End Close reporting financials in a timely manner.
• Cash Flow analysis and management.
• Continuous research, development, and improvement related to software, processes, efficiency, strategic planning, and trends and practices.
• Oversight of accounting department that includes A/P and, A/R, Collections, and Payroll.
• Provide leadership development and mentorship within the accounting department.

What you’ll bring to the table:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance required.
• 10 + years working as a Controller.
• A passion for mentoring and building high-performing teams.
• Strong leadership, analytical, and communication skills.

Above & Beyond:

• CPA – not required but is a plus!
• Experience in ESOP, AEC, FAR, or prevailing wage environments is a big plus.
• Experience using Unanet.
• Some work experience in architecture, engineering, surveying, landscape architecture, or planning firm

We’re eager to learn more about your qualifications and interest in joining our team!

*Psst…at RRM, we recognize that factors such as imposter syndrome or the confidence gap may deter some applicants from applying. However, we encourage you to apply anyways, as we recognize these restraints do not reflect an applicant’s abilities, and we don’t want them to get in the way of us meeting potential RRMers!

ABOUT US:

Ensuring the health and happiness of our RRMers is paramount to how we run our business. RRM Design Group is a 100% employee-owned multidiscipline design firm with a full spectrum of services including architecture, landscape architecture, planning, civil and structural engineering, and surveying. Our offices are located along the California coast from Orange County to the Bay Area. Over one-third of our workforce has been with us for a decade or more and we work on engaging projects in several diverse markets throughout the state.

We value the diversity of intersecting identities and strive to maintain an environment that is equitable, respectful, and inclusive. We expect our work environments to be places of diverse engagement and informed discourse. Ultimately, we acknowledge that our standards of excellence as a multidiscipline design firm are not separate from the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion.