Corporate Controller

About the role

This is a build role, not a maintain role. There is no close checklist to inherit, no policy manual to update, no reconciliation binder to refresh. The right person has done the unglamorous version of this work — written the memo, designed the control, run the cutover, sat through the first audit — and wants to do it again with more scope.

Responsibilities

• Build the accounting organization, establishing a disciplined close calendar and a documented control environment.
• Oversee the consolidation of SHD Composite Materials Ltd’s results into Cambium’s U.S. GAAP financials.
• Design and implement SOX controls, ensuring compliance with U.S. GAAP and Sarbanes-Oxley Act requirements.
• Assess and design a new control environment for a small team, including segregation of duties.
• Own the auditor relationship, providing direct support during the first-year audit.
• Lead the transition of Cambium’s accounting processes from an outsourced provider to an in-house team, including the implementation of an ERP system.
• Manage multi-entity, multi-currency consolidation, including foreign currency translation, remeasurement, intercompany eliminations, and CTA.
• Guide the acquisition and integration of additional operating companies, including purchase accounting, opening balance sheets, and post-close work.
• Assess and improve the existing control environment, ensuring it meets the needs of a growing company.
• Provide technical guidance on complex accounting issues such as revenue recognition, business combinations, leases, and stock compensation.
• Communicate effectively with various stakeholders, including the executive team, board, investors, auditors, and customers.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with key partners and vendors, including the independent audit firm and ERP vendors.
• Ensure compliance with relevant laws and regulations, including DCAA oversight for government contracts.
• Collaborate with the CFO and other senior leaders to develop and implement accounting policies and procedures.
• Lead the team in the execution of the close process, including month-end and year-end closing activities.
• Monitor and analyze financial performance, identifying trends and variances that require further investigation.
• Prepare and present financial reports to the executive team, board, and investors.
• Stay current with changes in accounting standards and regulations, and ensure that Cambium’s accounting practices comply with these changes.
• Support the development of financial models and forecasts to inform strategic decision-making.

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive accounting experience, including public accounting and time as a Controller, Assistant Controller, or Accounting Director in an operating company, ideally including prior ownership of a multi-entity international close.
• CPA required. Active license strongly preferred.
• Public company and SOX experience strongly desired — whether as an auditor of public company clients, in a public company accounting or SEC reporting role, or having taken a private company through IPO readiness.
• Demonstrated experience building an accounting function rather than inheriting one — standing up a close, hiring the team, writing the policies, and transitioning work in-house from an outsourced provider.
• Experience with the selection and implementation of an ERP is strongly desired — participating in the evaluation, owning accounting design decisions, working with the vendor and integrator, and living through the cutover.
• Multi-entity, multi-currency consolidation experience is required — foreign currency translation, remeasurement, intercompany eliminations, and CTA, in an environment with real international operations rather than a single foreign subsidiary.
• M&A integration experience is highly desired. Acquiring operating companies is central to our growth plan, so we place real weight on candidates who have done purchase accounting, opening balance sheets, and the post-close work of bringing an acquired business onto a common close calendar, account structure, and reporting standard.
• Comfort owning the auditor relationship directly. First-year audit experience is welcome but not required.
• Technical accounting strength in the areas that matter here: revenue recognition (ASC 606), business combinations (ASC 805), leases (ASC 842), and stock compensation (ASC 718) — and the ability to write the memo yourself.
• Venture-backed or high-growth company experience; comfort with board-level and investor-level scrutiny of the accounting.
• Advanced Excel — we are a Microsoft 365 shop.
• Hands-on ERP experience (NetSuite, Sage Intacct, Microsoft Dynamics, Infor, Epicor, or similar); we run Intuit Enterprise Suite, Ramp, ADP, and TriNet today.
• Power BI and SQL welcome.
• Experience with consolidation, close management, and planning tools — Hyperion, FloQast, Adaptive, BlackLine, or similar — is highly desirable.
• Experience in manufacturing, aerospace, defense, industrial, or advanced materials is preferred. Depth in standard costing and manufacturing cost accounting is welcome but not required.
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance. Master’s in accounting or taxation welcome, not required.
• Excellent written and verbal communication. You can explain a technical position to an auditor, a control requirement to an engineer, and a variance to the board — and you write clearly enough that your memos hold up when you are not in the room.
• Willingness to be hands-on in the ledger while also building the function, and the judgment to know which one the week actually calls for.
• Comfort with ambiguity, limited existing process, and shifting priorities; low ego, high ownership, and a strong bias toward building.
• Absolute integrity — this seat does not bend.
• Willingness to travel periodically to all Cambium sites, particularly El Segundo, Mooresville, and Europe.