Corporate Controller
Position Summary
The Corporate Controller owns BAL’s financial controls environment, audit governance, and lender/covenant reporting posture. This is a controls, compliance, and governance-ownership role — it carries the executive presence for Finance with auditors, lenders, and firm leadership.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
Own the design, execution, and maturity of the internal controls framework — risk assessment, control testing, and remediation. Candidates should have built or significantly matured a controls environment before, not just maintained one.
Maintain continuous audit readiness as an operating posture, not an annual event. Own the audit relationship process directly.
Prepare and manage lender/covenant reporting under a credit facility, revolver, or similar debt structure. Serve as the primary point of authority for auditors and lenders, and represent the firm’s control posture in executive-level financial reporting — this person carries weight in the room, not just prepares the materials.
Partner with the Accounting teams on GAAP application and reporting integrity, without owning execution of close. Identify and flag control gaps or financial-integrity risk to the CFO and Finance leadership.
Technology & Change Leadership: BAL is undergoing significant technological and organizational change. This role requires genuine learning agility and technical aptitude — not just tolerance for change. Serves as an influential voice in technology and process deployment decisions — a participant in shaping system changes, not just an end user. Evaluates, questions, and champions system/process changes through a controls and financial-integrity lens; asks the right questions whenever new technology touches financial data or workflows.
Prior experience navigating systems transformation, ERP change, or major process redesign.
Working Style
Hands-on: willing and able to dig into transaction-level detail when something doesn’t tie out, not manage exclusively from a dashboard.
Comfortable being the “no” or “not yet” voice when controls or compliance require it. This is a governance role, not a cheerleading role.
Curious and adaptable enough to stay credible as the firm’s technology and processes evolve.
Operates through influence and control authority rather than line management.
Required Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities
Track record owning internal controls design and execution — risk assessment, control testing, remediation. SOX exposure is a good indicator but not required.
Experience in a high-transaction-volume environment (high invoice/payment throughput, complex AR/AP flows).
Professional services industry background — law firm, consulting, or similar partner/client-billing model — with working understanding of WIP, billing cycles, and PS-specific revenue recognition.
Has led or directly managed external audits and owned the process.
Experience preparing or managing compliance reporting under a credit facility, revolver, or debt covenant structure.
Strong GAAP technical knowledge with proven practical application.
Direct, credible communicator who can explain financial risk and control gaps clearly to non-finance executives.
Education and Experience
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance required.
CPA strongly preferred, not required.
10+ years of progressive controls/audit/compliance leadership experience required.