VP of Accounting, Corporate Controller

About the role

The Vice President of Accounting / Corporate Controller will report to the Chief Financial Officer and will be based in Brea, California, with local or California-based candidates strongly preferred, with relocation considered for the right individual.

Responsibilities

• Own the month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close and the external audit across all brands and entities, delivering accurate, timely financial statements under U.S. GAAP while driving the cycle toward greater efficiency without sacrificing accuracy.

• Serve as a trusted extension of the CFO, absorbing a substantial share of the CFO’s current responsibilities and providing a reliable, insight-oriented accounting partner to FP&A, IT, and operating leadership.

• Own the reporting output, moving beyond a correct package to interpreting what the numbers reveal, flagging the issues that matter, and, as the platform scales, quickly assessing which brands are on track and why.

• Deliver timely, credible reporting to the private-equity sponsor, board, lenders, and investors, including covenant and compliance-certificate reporting, ensuring the integrity of the information that underpins value-creation and capital decisions.

• Oversee a complex, high-volume payroll function spanning multiple pay codes and brands (the organization’s single largest accrual), ensuring accuracy, control, and continuity in partnership with a strong payroll leader while improving cycle times and efficiency.

• Direct a high-transaction accounts-payable operation, standardizing processes and controls across brands, addressing retention challenges in the function, and improving cycle times and efficiency.

• Own banking relationships, cash management, and cash forecasting across entities, bringing in specialist treasury support where depth is warranted.

• Streamline transactional accounting workflows across the shared-services organization, applying automation and, where appropriate, AI-enabled tooling, and evaluating selective outsourcing where it strengthens the function.

• Design and implement the internal-control framework required to move the organization toward Sarbanes-Oxley-level rigor and audit-ready, public-company-grade reporting, without requiring prior public-company execution experience.

• Own the external-audit relationship end to end, working directly with the auditors and resolving findings and remediation before results reach the CFO and audit committee, and coordinate tax and regulatory compliance across jurisdictions.

• Consolidate all accounting (accounts payable, payroll, and core accounting) into a single, consistent home-office standard across brands, enabling field finance leaders to focus on operational partnership.

• Own the accounting, consolidation, and reporting systems environment, including the general ledger (Sage Intacct), field-service platform (ServiceTitan), expense management (Concur), payroll (ADP), and planning and business-intelligence tools (Workday Adaptive, Domo), leading enhancements, integrations, and standardization across a multi-entity, multi-brand landscape.

• Own the accounting integration of acquired brands, harmonizing charts of accounts, establishing opening balance sheets, and onboarding each business’s accounting, accounts payable, payroll, and banking onto the platform’s close and controls model.

• Partner with Corporate Development and the sponsor on financial diligence and purchase accounting (ASC 805), providing the accounting perspective required to close and integrate transactions.

• Build and refine a systematic integration checklist and playbook capable of absorbing multiple tuck-in acquisitions per year cleanly and at pace, replacing ad hoc integration with a standard, teachable process.

• Build accounting infrastructure (people, process, and systems) that scales with an accelerating acquisition program and a growing multi-state footprint.

• Lead, not just manage, the function, developing the directors of accounting and payroll, building depth and bench beneath them, and making thoughtful structural changes as the platform scales.

• Partner effectively with FP&A, IT, and Human Resources, and earn the trust of the operating brands and division presidents, serving the field as an internal customer rather than dictating to it.

• Model and instill a culture of accuracy, accountability, efficiency, and continuous improvement consistent with the company’s people-first, field-led operating philosophy.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field required; CPA and/or an advanced degree preferred but not required, with capability weighted over credentials.

• Fifteen or more years of progressive accounting leadership experience, culminating in a Corporate Controller, VP of Accounting, or equivalent senior role.

• Direct experience leading accounting for a branch-based, multi-site services business managing multiple operating entities, the single most important qualification for this role.

• Experience gained inside genuine multi-site complexity, which is the gate for this search: site, branch, and entity count weigh more heavily than revenue, so a thirty-location, multi-state platform qualifies where a larger single-site operator does not.

Qualifications

• Company scale preferably in excess of $500 million in revenue, and ideally $1 billion or more, though revenue alone will not exclude a candidate whose multi-site complexity is