Controller

About the role

The Controller is a key financial leader responsible for the accounting, financial reporting, cash management, and financial control functions across the Space Needle and Chihuly Garden and Glass businesses. Reporting directly to the CFO, this role leads the day-to-day accounting organization while ensuring timely, accurate, and insightful financial reporting. The Controller manages a team of four overseeing payroll, accounts payable, accounts receivable, and general accounting activities. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring strong technical accounting skills, operational understanding, and the ability to move beyond reporting results to clearly explain what is driving them. The successful candidate will be equally comfortable ensuring the integrity of the financial statements, managing core financial processes, developing the accounting team, and working with business leaders to understand financial performance.

Full time, Salaried position

Responsibilities

• Lead the monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close and reporting processes across the combined businesses.
• Ensure timely and accurate preparation of financial statements, management reporting, and supporting schedules.
• Own the monthly analysis of financial results, including clear and actionable explanations of variances to budget, forecast, prior year, and prior periods.
• Identify the underlying business drivers of significant revenue, expense, labor, margin, and EBITDA variances rather than simply reporting numerical differences.
• Partner with operating and functional leaders to understand results, validate explanations, and improve financial accountability.
• Identify emerging trends, risks, and opportunities within financial results and proactively elevate them to the CFO and business leaders.
• Support preparation of financial reporting and analysis for senior leadership, the Finance Committee, Board of Directors, and shareholders as needed.
• Maintain the integrity of the general ledger and ensure transactions are recorded accurately and in accordance with GAAP and company policies.
• Maintain appropriate accounting policies, procedures, internal controls, reconciliations, and documentation