The company is a fast-growing, profitable, $300MM, professional services business.
With an established and growing customer base, strong services offerings, and recent growth capital through one of the largest and well-regarded, middle market, private equity funds. The business is well positioned to continue to scale quickly and looking to bring on board a strong, hands-on Corporate Controller to report to the CFO.
This role will have high visibility and will be responsible for leading the accounting function, including development of the team, as well as continuous improvement of the organization’s accounting initiatives, principles, practices, and procedures. There is a robust team in place with two senior direct reports. This is a unique opportunity to have significant impact on a growing organization. . The ideal candidate will bring a strong blend of technical and operational accounting expertise in a similar size, commercial services or related organization.
Responsibilities:
- Consolidation of financial information, including continual improvement and increased efficiency of the close process.
- Oversee the operational accounting of the company to ensure control and SLA’s are maintained across a wide range of customers.
- Technical accounting guidance. Help the business understand the accounting implications of potential business decisions and the impact of evolving accounting standards.
- Financial Systems and Controls. Evaluate current financial systems and develop a plan to improve their effectiveness and efficiency. Lead implementation of that plan and achievement of targeted results.
- Lead and manage monthly accounting close procedures and deliverables (journal entries, reconciliations, reports) in compliance with GAAP.
- Lead the yearly audit and tax compliance ensuring timelines are met.
- Assist the CFO with financial analysis to identify operating improvements, deep dive into cost structures, and analyze opportunities/investments (ROI/NPV).
- Lead cash management and reporting. This includes collaboration with the business to develop accurate weekly cash projections. It also includes timely filing of financial and compliance reports with lenders and responses to their inquiries.
- Ensure compliance with debt covenants. Create awareness and vigilance to ensure that the business can invest to achieve its growth potential while remaining compliant with debt covenants.
Experience:
- Experience as a Controller of a B2B services or similar commercial organization of comparable size.
- Experience developing and / or running a metrics driven organization with a robust management cadence (monthly dashboards, periodic business reviews, defined annual goals and budgeting process, etc.).
- Ideally, private equity experience with an acquisitive platform; used to high paced environment with multiple locations; ideally experience with integration and standardization of reporting.
- Experience managing a diverse set of customers and products with proven ability to manage complexity.
- Low-ego leader with “fix-it” mentality and willingness to “roll up sleeves” to get the job done.
- Proven ability to build, upgrade and manage a team with clear accountability and delegation of responsibilities.
- Demonstrated experience executing on operational improvement initiatives, optimizing use of company resources and reducing inefficiencies in the business in order to boost profitability and drive growth.
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or business administration
- CPA certification preferred
- 10+ years of experience in public and industry accounting
- Excellent technical knowledge of accounting, GAAP, and audit processes
- Microsoft Office proficiency, including advanced Excel skills
- Experience leading transformations of financial systems and processes to gain efficiencies.
- A self-starter with excellent time management skills (meets deadlines)
- Collaborative, results oriented team player
- NetSuite experience is a plus
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Industry 1: Financial Services
Industry 2: Management Consulting
Industry 3: Market Research
Job ID: 45900787507
Category: Accounting & Finance
Location: Peabody, MA