FBG Services Controller

About the role

FBG Services (FBGS) is the shared services company for Flagg Bicycle Group, supporting its operating businesses, Board of Directors, and select entities connected to the Flagg-Henrickson legacy plan.

The Controller is a key leader within FBGS, responsible for accounting, finance, and tax operations across the holding company and designated operating businesses. This role is part of the senior leadership team and oversees the accounting function. The Controller combines strategic leadership with hands-on execution, preparing and reviewing critical reporting for the Board, shareholders, and family office while managing the work of the accounting team. The Controller works closely with operating business leaders, external audit and tax advisers, Board committee leadership, and designated family-office representatives. The Controller may also support acquisitions, dispositions, and post-close integration as opportunities arise.

Accountability levels define the Controller's ownership across activities:

• Own / Prepare: The Controller is accountable for the outcome and personally performs or finalizes the work.
• Oversee / Manage: The Controller is accountable for the outcome; the team or outside providers perform the work under the Controller's direction and review.
• Coordinate: The Controller runs the process and timeline; others (advisers, operating leaders) are accountable for parts of the output.
• Support / Partner: The Controller contributes expertise; another leader or body owns the outcome.

Responsibilities

Financial Reporting, Consolidation, and Board Reporting (≈35%)

• Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual close and consolidation process, including close calendars, account reconciliations, intercompany activity, eliminations, journal-entry controls, and timely delivery of accurate US GAAP financial statements.
• Establish reporting standards, deadlines, and review procedures that produce consistent, useful reporting across participating businesses.
• Provide financial oversight and analysis across the portfolio to support decisions by executive leadership and the Flagg Bicycle Group, LLC Board of Directors.
• Prepare financial reports and analysis for shareholder reports and meetings.
• Serve as management liaison to the Flagg Bicycle Group, LLC Audit, Risk, and Compliance Committee, subject to the Committee charter, and provide timely reporting on material accounting, tax, compliance, audit, liquidity, and internal-control matters.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen financial performance, reporting, controls, and risk management, and provide clear recommendations to executive leadership and the appropriate Board committee.
• Promptly escalate material accounting, tax, compliance, control, liquidity, or financial-reporting risks to the Executive Vice President and, when appropriate, to designated Board committee leadership.
• Oversee timely monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting for participating operating businesses. Not all businesses owned by the holding company use FBGS for their core accounting function.
• Oversee general accounting and centralized payroll within the scope of the FBGS charter.
• Partner with operating business leaders to promote consistent application of US GAAP and approved accounting policies while respecting defined governance, service scope, and accountability.

Accounting Policy and Internal Controls (≈15%)

• Design, document, implement, and monitor an effective system of internal controls over financial reporting, including segregation of duties, approval authorities, financial policies, and remediation of identified control deficiencies.
• Maintain accounting policies, process documentation, and records-retention practices appropriate to the organization's size, risk profile, and multi-entity structure.
• Monitor compliance with delegated authorities and approval limits, and support fraud-risk prevention and response processes.
• Maintain confidentiality, access controls, and information boundaries among the holding company, operating businesses, real estate entities, trusts, shareholders, and other supported organizations.

Treasury and Cash Management (≈10%)

• Oversee treasury and cash management within the approved scope of FBGS, including liquidity reporting, banking controls, debt and covenant reporting, intercompany funding, and coordination with financial institutions.
• Establish controls for cash movement, payment approvals, bank-account access, and authorized signers.
• Coordinate short- and intermediate-term cash forecasting and communicate material liquidity needs or constraints.

Tax, Audit, and Regulatory Compliance (≈15%)

• Oversee the tax-compliance calendar for the holding company, operating businesses, and other FBGS stakeholders, including limited international obligations.
• Coordinate the income tax provision (ASC 740), return preparation, supporting schedules, estimated payments, extensions, and responses to tax notices.
• Evaluate tax positions and planning opportunities with external advisers, including R&D tax credits, UNICAP, and other applicable matters; monitor material tax exposures and communicate significant risks and recommendations to executive leadership.
• Manage external audit and tax-advisory relationships, including scope, deliverables, fees