Assistant Controller
Clifton Park, NYJob$80–100K/yrSeen 6 days agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago
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The Assistant Controller supports the accounting cycle and partners with District Managers across operations, sales, and customer service. The role involves learning the business through collaboration with other departments and may include riding along with drivers and sales staff. Responsibilities span financial statements, budgets, audits, system implementations, and operational metrics. The position requires a bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance and intermediate to advanced Excel and accounting-system skills.
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Being an Assistant Controller at Waste Connections means being involved in not only the accounting cycle but all aspects of the business. It also means not sitting at a cubicle all day! Waste Connections is a large, publicly-traded solid waste services company that provides non-hazardous waste collection, transfer, disposal and recycling services in mostly exclusive and secondary markets in the U.S. and Canada. If you are looking for a career and not just a job, then Waste Connections might be the company for you.
Why join us?
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Tremendous opportunities for internal growth within the company
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Work hard, play harder culture
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Ability to work with incredibly smart, talented, hard-working, and fun people
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Compensation: Salary DOE & market + 10% bonus potential and company paid relocation package
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Hear what our current controllers have to say: https://vimeo.com/395284791
Outside of typical accounting duties, Assistant Controllers at Waste Connections are involved in Operations, Sales, Customer Service, and more. Working with the other departments might include riding along with drivers and our sales team, or getting familiar with our billing system by sitting with a Customer Service Representative. As an Assistant Controller at Waste Connections, your success is dependent on your ability to understand the many facets of the business to be able to provide the necessary support of being a true business partner to the District Managers.
Salary: $80,000 - $100,000 with bonus potential
Requirements:
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Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
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Relocation for advancement or promotional opportunities
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Assist in the preparation of monthly financial statements, annual budgets, audits and system implantations.
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Support operations personnel with daily, weekly and monthly metric calculations
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Must be a self-starter with the initiative to learn and a great work ethic
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Intermediate to advanced skills in MS Excel and related accounting business systems
We offer excellent benefits including medical, dental, vision, flexible spending account, short term and long term disability, life insurance, 401(k) retirement and unlimited opportunities to 'Connect with Your Future'.
Waste Connections is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability or protected veteran status.
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How this job compares
Set against the 4,827 open Accounting jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$80–100K/yr
- New York median$90–127K/yr276 salary ranges
- US median$94–135K/yr2,364 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $90K, is 20% below the New York median midpoint ($113K) — in the middle half of Accounting salary ranges in New York.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 479 open Accounting jobs in New York and 4,827 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New York
- Robert Half Finance & Accounting28 open
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- Experience
- Accounting postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 7 years (3,544 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 2,402 of the 4,827 open Accounting jobs (50%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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