Chief Accounting Officer

What you’ll do

• Lead the global accounting organization, including regional controllers and accounting leaders across multiple entities and geographies.
• Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes, ensuring accuracy, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Drive accounting transformation initiatives, systems improvements, process automation, and organizational design enhancements.
• Lead complex financial cleanup and remediation efforts, building scalable infrastructure in an evolving, high-growth environment.
• Strengthen internal controls, accounting policies, governance frameworks, and financial reporting processes.
• Partner closely with Finance, Tax, Treasury, FP&A, Legal, and operational leaders across the company.
• Support audit readiness, technical accounting matters, and long-term IPO preparedness initiatives.
• Evaluate and optimize processes, technology, and team structures to increase efficiency, leverage, and business partnership.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to the CFO and executive leadership team on accounting, controllership, and finance transformation priorities.
• Help establish the systems, processes, and organizational foundations required to support the company's future growth and public-company aspirations.

What we’re looking for

• 15+ years of progressive accounting leadership experience.
• CPA, with roots in Big Four public accounting required.
• Experience leading large, global, multi-entity accounting organizations.
• Proven success scaling high-growth businesses and navigating complexity.
• Experience with IPO readiness, public company environments, SOX, or large transformation efforts is desirable.
• Strong systems orientation with a track record of driving automation and process improvements.
• Able to balance immediate execution against long-term strategic outcomes.
• High sense of ownership and urgency.
• Exceptional communication skills and ability to influence across all levels of the organization.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
• Operated at a high-rigor public company and "knows what good looks like" — energized by building just that.