Controller

About the Role

This is an internal Controller role for someone who is already strong in accounting operations and wants a broader seat across faster close, cleaner reporting, FP&A support, acquisition integration, automation, and direct partnership with senior finance and executive leadership. This is not a narrow bookkeeping seat, and it is not a hands-off VP Finance role. It is ideal for a highly capable Controller who wants to stay close to the GL, own the accounting operating cadence, and build toward broader FP&A and strategic finance exposure over time.

Responsibilities

Accounting Operations

• Own day-to-day accounting operations across payroll, accounts receivable, accounts payable, reconciliations, month-end close, and reporting workflows.
• Lead the close process with a focus on speed, accuracy, reviewability, and repeatability.
• Maintain clean financial records that support leadership reporting, board reporting, audit readiness, and future lender-related data requests.
• Oversee and develop one direct report in a senior accountant or accounting specialist capacity.
• Support required registrations, compliance-related finance administration, and other operational finance needs as they arise.

Reporting, FP&A, and Leadership Support

• Build and improve financial reporting packages so leadership can review results earlier, identify insights faster, and make better decisions.
• Support monthly variance analysis, fluctuation analysis, forecasting, budgeting, and longer-term planning exercises.
• Help prepare operational finance inputs for board reporting, annual budgeting, sponsor-backed reporting, audit readiness, and valuation-related needs.
• Partner with the finance leader on lender-facing data preparation if and when the company moves into lender relationships.
• Translate accurate accounting outputs into useful finance insights for a scaling professional services business.

Systems, Automation, and Process Modernization

• Assess the current finance and accounting technology stack and help determine what should be automated, upgraded, or replaced over time.
• Improve capacity in the Controller function through better processes and tools rather than simply adding headcount.
• Identify opportunities to automate month-end close, reconciliations, AP workflows, reporting packages, and recurring data pulls.
• Support future ERP, accounting system, forecasting tool, or related finance systems implementation work.

Acquisition Integration

• Help integrate accounting operations for a recently acquired business line currently relying on informal or part-time bookkeeping support.
• Create a more scalable accounting process for the acquired business, including fixed-price services revenue and related reporting.
• Support acquisition-related accounting integration work such as GL alignment, reporting consistency, data cleanup, and operating cadence.
• Bring practical judgment to a business where acquisition activity and integration work are expected to remain part of the finance environment.

Qualifications

• You have strong Controller-level experience owning accounting operations in a smaller or mid-sized business where finance and accounting responsibilities are not overly siloed.
• You are comfortable being accountable for the GL, close, reporting accuracy, and accounting process discipline.
• You have meaningful exposure to FP&A, forecasting, variance analysis, budgeting, or board reporting, even if your core strength is still accounting.
• You have worked in a sponsor-backed, PE-backed, VC-backed, or similarly high-accountability environment where speed, reporting quality, and leadership visibility matter.
• You have experience with professional services, project-based accounting, fixed-price services revenue, or other operationally complex revenue models.
• You can support a business with a mix of services and subscription-style revenue, even if project-based accounting has been the more complex part of your background.
• You have either participated in acquisition integration work before or have strong adjacent experience organizing new entities, business lines, systems, and reporting flows.
• You are comfortable working directly with senior finance leadership and being a reliable leverage point for better reporting, analysis, and operating cadence.
• You are hands-on, fast, precise, and willing to improve the process while still doing the underlying accounting work well.

Preferred Experience

• ERP implementation, accounting system implementation, forecasting tool implementation, or finance systems modernization experience.
• Automation experience across close, reconciliations, AP, reporting, or recurring finance workflows.
• Experience preparing data for lenders, debt reporting, covenant tracking, or quarterly lender packages.
• Familiarity with government contracting, federal contractor environments, regulated services businesses, or compliance-heavy operating models.
• Experience in a multi-service-line business with project-based, fixed-price, managed services, and subscription-style revenue.
• Audit support experience in a sponsor-backed or acquisition-oriented environment.

The First 90 Days

First 30 Days

• Learn the current accounting operations, reporting cadence, systems, team structure, and business model.
• Identify the biggest opportunities to streamline month-end close and reporting package preparation.
• Begin improving reporting workflows so leadership can review results earlier and with more confidence.

First 60 Days

• Take meaningful ownership of integrating accounting operations for the recently acquired business line.
• Move acquired-business accounting away from informal or part-time support toward a scalable internal process.
• Continue tightening the monthly close and recurring reporting cadence.

First 90 Days

• Establish a clearer operating rhythm across close, reporting, finance inputs, and leadership review.
• Help prepare for upcoming budgeting, audit, valuation, and sponsor-backed reporting needs.
• Build a practical roadmap for finance technology improvements and automation opportunities.

Who This Role Is Best For

This role is a strong fit if you are already a highly capable Controller and want your next role to stretch beyond traditional accounting operations. You may be earlier in your career than a VP Finance, but you have the judgment, technical accounting foundation, and operating pace to become a broader finance leader over time. You will likely enjoy this role if you are energized by:

• A scaling, sponsor-backed company environment.
• Direct exposure to finance leadership and executive decision-making.
• Building structure without needing a fully built playbook.
• Making accounting faster, cleaner, and more useful to the business.
• Owning the details while gaining more FP&A and strategic finance exposure.

Location and Work Model

Remote role. This is an internal corporate finance role, not a client-facing consulting delivery role.

Pay

Base salary range: $160,000–$175,000.