Interim Controller - Remote

About the role

The Interim Controller will partner directly with ownership to bring discipline, structure, and reliable reporting to a finance function being built alongside the company's growth.

Responsibilities

• Own a disciplined, GAAP-compliant monthly close and consolidation across multiple legal entities, supported by a clear close calendar and best-practice reconciliations and accruals.
• Produce accurate financial statements, close packages, and variance analysis with clear narratives on trends, risks, and operational drivers.
• Deliver reporting packages to ownership and lenders on a disciplined cadence, including covenant compliance and cash-flow visibility, and prepare for institutional investor reporting as the platform's capital structure evolves.
• Ensure ASC 606-compliant revenue recognition and appropriate treatment of contract and recurring-revenue billing across the services portfolio.
• Establish and enforce internal controls and accounting policies across accounts payable, accounts receivable, the general ledger, and payroll-related accounting.
• Design and document scalable workflows and a chart of accounts that support the platform as it grows across markets.
• Manage the bill-to-pay working-capital cycle of weekly labor payroll against client payment terms, monitoring liquidity and cash position.
• Support audit coordination, quality-of-earnings requests, and diligence in partnership with the owner/CFO.
• Serve as functional owner of the ERP environment, optimizing existing functionality to enable a faster close, stronger controls, and scalable reporting.
• Configure the general ledger and chart of accounts and maximize native reporting tools to improve accuracy and efficiency.
• Ensure data integrity and disciplined system controls across the accounting environment.
• Streamline manual workflows & build scalable, repeatable reporting reducing close-cycle effort over time.
• Own multi-state and multi-jurisdiction payroll, sales/use tax, income/franchise tax, and business-license compliance as the platform operates across many states, with the heaviest complexity concentrated in roughly five high-activity states (including California, Texas, New York, Nevada, and Florida).
• Manage high-volume 1099 contractor reporting across a distributed workforce (including off-duty officer programs), and keep federal and state filings on a disciplined, on-time cadence.
• Oversee business licensing, registrations, and new-entity setup as the operating footprint expands.
• Apply working knowledge of acquisition integration, including a common chart of accounts, opening balance sheets, and net-working-capital true-ups, recognizing this interim engagement is reporting- and controls-led rather than integration-led.
• Ensure compliance with applicable state and federal financial reporting requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or related field is required.
• Master’s degree, MBA, or equivalent experience is a plus.
• 10 – 15+ years of progressive accounting leadership experience, and a strong track record of career progression.
• Ideal 6+ years of people leadership experience, overseeing and directing the work of an accounting function.
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Charted Accountant (CA) or other accounting related certifications are a plus.
• Experience working for a PE-backed professional services, staffing, or labor-intensive, multi-site platform.
• Demonstrated ownership of multi-entity consolidation and GAAP financial statements within a PE-backed environment.
• Strong GAAP foundation, including the monthly close, reconciliations, accruals, and ASC 606 revenue recognition.
• Multi-state operational finance experience, including multi-state payroll, sales/use and income/franchise tax filings, business licensing, new-entity setup, and high-volume 1099 contractor reporting; experience across 10+ states, with several high-complexity states, strongly preferred.
• Experience producing board, investor, and lender reporting and supporting covenant compliance, audit, and diligence.
• Proven ability to improve accounting processes and controls while operating hands-on alongside the team.
• Functional ownership of a mid-market ERP (e.g., QuickBooks, NetSuite, or Sage), including general-ledger and chart-of-accounts configuration and native reporting; comfort operating in and consolidating mixed or transitioning systems environments.
• Familiarity with the economics of labor-intensive, field-based services, including bill rates versus pay rates, overtime and coverage, and recurring-revenue billing.
• Working knowledge of buy-and-build acquisition integration (ASC 805, opening balance sheets, net-working-capital true-ups) is a plus but not required.
• Ability to earn the trust of owners, sponsors, lenders, and acquired-company leadership.

Benefits

The Interim Controller will have the opportunity to deliver immediate, foundational impact in a finance function being built alongside the company's growth.

Pay

A competitive hourly / contract rate is offered.

Schedule

The engagement is approximately three (3) months, extendable based on business needs and mutual fit.