Controller

Primary Responsibilities

• Own the monthly and quarterly close across the firm’s multiple legal entities and business lines, including general ledger management, journal entries, accruals, adjustments, and account reconciliations.
• Lead, develop, and hold accountable the accounting team — including two internal accountants and a dedicated offshore accounting team — setting priorities, reviewing work, and ensuring deadlines are consistently met.
• Own the firm’s internal control environment and coordinate quarterly SOX control reporting and documentation.
• Partner closely with the broker-dealer subsidiary’s Chief Compliance Officer and the outside FINOP on the entity’s standalone audit, serving as the accounting lead within that team — compiling and managing audit sample requests, and reviewing the financial statements and footnote language to ensure everything is sound from a GAAP perspective.
• Coordinate the firm’s 401(k) plan audit, preparing schedules and interfacing with auditors in partnership with the CFO.
• Serve as a key liaison to Ancora’s parent company on applicable tax preparation, cash-flow management, and consolidated financial statement support.
• Help lead the firm’s accounting systems transformation, including the upcoming migration to Workday, and continually identify opportunities to improve efficiency, strengthen controls, and reduce manual work across recurring accounting processes.
• Deliver accurate, well-organized, and timely financial data across all entities to support CFO and leadership reporting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a related field; CPA strongly preferred.
• 8+ years of progressive accounting experience, with demonstrated ownership of close, reporting, and audit processes.
• Public accounting experience expected; prior external audit experience is a strong advantage given the role’s audit support and GAAP review responsibilities.
• Direct people-management experience, including the ability to lead and develop a distributed team.
• Experience in financial services, wealth management, RIA, broker-dealer, or asset management is a plus, though not required; a strong generalist will get up to speed quickly.
• Demonstrated ability to manage breadth and complexity across multiple legal entities and business lines — success in this role depends as much on organization, process discipline, and follow-through as on technical accounting expertise.
• Experience with accounting ERP systems (e.g., Acumatica, Workday, NetSuite, or Sage Intacct); ERP implementation or system-conversion experience strongly preferred given the firm’s upcoming migration to Workday.
• Advanced Excel skills required; experience with Power BI or comparable BI/reporting tools a plus.
• Familiarity with billing, expense, and payables platforms (e.g., SS&C/Advent products, Concur, AvidXchange) a plus.
• Strong knowledge of GAAP, internal controls, and process documentation.