Assistant Controller
Petrotech Inc
New Orleans, LA
Accounting / Auditing, Finance / Banking / Insurance
Department: Finance / Accounting
Reports To: Controller
Location: New Orleans, LA
FLSA Status: Exempt
Date: March 2026
Position Summary
We are seeking a detail-oriented and results-driven Assistant Controller to lead billing operations and
accounts receivable management for Petrotech Inc.’s New Orleans office. This role ensures accurate
project billing, timely collections, and compliance with contract terms, while supporting financial
reporting and optimizing cash flow.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage project and contract billing (progress, milestone, and time & materials)
- Review contracts and change orders to ensure billing accuracy and compliance
- Monitor accounts receivable aging and drive timely collections
- Resolve billing discrepancies, deductions, and short payments
- Prepare and distribute AR aging reports to project stakeholders
- Support month-end close, including journal entries and account reconciliations
- Maintain ERP billing and job cost systems to ensure data integrity
- Assist with sales and use tax reporting and compliance
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance
- Minimum of 3 years of progressive accounting experience
- Experience in construction billing including job cost accounting, AIA billing, retainage
- Strong knowledge of general ledger accounting and reconciliations
- Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, lookups, data analysis)
- Experience with ERP/accounting systems
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy
- Excellent organizational and time-management skills
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Proactive approach to collections and problem-solving
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively
- CPA designation or progress toward CPA certification
- Experience with lien waivers, retainage tracking, or project-based accounting
- Ability to sit for extended periods and use standard office equipment
- Primarily office-based, with occasional extended hours during close periods
- Salary: Commensurate with experience
- Comprehensive benefits package including:
- 401(k) matching
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Life insurance and disability coverage
- Paid time off and holidays
- Professional development opportunities
- Full-time, Monday–Friday, standard business hours, with flexibility during reporting cycles
- New Orleans, LA Office
Petrotech Inc. is a leading provider of automation, control, and instrumentation solutions supporting
power generation and industrial process applications. We are committed to engineering excellence,
operational reliability and delivering high-performance solutions to our customers worldwide.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Petrotech Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to
creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate based on race, color,
religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any
other protected characteristic under applicable law.
About the company
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With over 5 years of experience and thousands of installations worldwide, Petrotech provides customized control solutions in a full turnkey package, from engineering concept to installation and commissioning.
Petrotech provides an extensive range of products and engineering services for rotating machinery and plant control system upgrades, mechanical retrofits, standalone control products and new equipment solutions for turbomachinery industry OEMs.
Petrotech’s products include integrated control systems for gas, hydro and steam turbines, generators, reciprocating/diesel engines, compressors, centrifugal and axial compressors, pumps and all associated ancillary systems. Our turnkey services include engineering design (software and hardware), project management, control panel fabrication, system integration, site I&E services, commissioning, training, customer service and startup.
Petrotech has remained committed to providing its customers with advanced controls that improve the performance and mechanical reliability of turbo and rotating machinery. This commitment is demonstrated by continued focus and improvement of its core competencies and turnkey solutions.
Advances in the company’s control software development have allowed Petrotech to develop its fully open architecture so that it continues to be transportable to all major commercially available control platforms. These Petrotech control algorithms are based on application knowledge of the company’s founding members and extensive field experience. The advanced functionality continues to evolve with the development of additional capabilities that serve the customer’s ever-changing needs.
In our peer group of turbomachinery control system companies, Petrotech provides the most innovative solutions for unusual and difficult control challenges.
Our corporate office is located in New Orleans, Louisiana, with full-service offices in Houston, Texas and Bury St. Edmunds, Surrey, in the UK.