[Hiring] Controller @Rocketship
Mar 29, 2025 - Rocketship is hiring a remote Controller. đź’¸ Salary: commensurate with qualifications and experience. đź“ŤLocation: USA.
Role Description
Reporting directly to the Chief Financial Officer (CFO), the Controller is a senior leadership role at Rocketship responsible for all aspects of financial reporting, compliance, and stewardship. The role has primary oversight of the Rocketship Accounting team - ten professionals who have functional responsibility over accounting, accounts payable and receivable, cash management, internal and external financial reporting, fiscal compliance, grants accounting, and audit management. The Controller will ensure that Rocketship has the accounting and compliance systems, controls, and procedures in place to support effective school operations in a growing network that spans multiple states with their own unique requirements.
The Controller plays a key role throughout our organization by partnering with school and network leaders to develop and implement finance, accounting and compliance procedures, realize a clean annual audit, and to explore and improve support of school programs and operations. In addition, the Controller works closely with the business and audit committees, as well as the Network Executive Team, to provide high quality data, strategic insights and recommendations on improving our business procedures.
Essential Functions
- Lead a high-performing, representative Accounting team and sustain a culture of high performance and service orientation among team members.
- Oversee all accounts, ledgers, and reporting systems ensuring accuracy and full compliance with appropriate GAAP standards and regulatory requirements.
- Maintain internal controls and safeguards over all accounting and cash management functions. Ensure proper implementation and provide training accordingly.
- Oversee the monthly, quarterly and annual closes and collaborate with the finance team accordingly.
- Serve as a key point of review and accountability for financial entries by approving all check runs, payroll, and journal entries.
- Collaborate with the Directors of Finance to prepare and present financial statements, in accordance to GAAP, in a clear, accurate and timely manner and to ensure that charter authorizer deadlines are met.
- Manage a Director of Audit to oversee all required audits, including annual financial statements, retirement plan audits, A-133 federal single audit, and other special audit projects as required.
- Evaluate accounting and payroll related systems and interfaces, and work collaboratively with stakeholders to implement upgrades when needed.
- Manage the implementation and ongoing support for Rocketship’s procurement and accounts payable platform, RAMP.
- Direct the preparation of annual tax returns or reports for government regulatory agencies.
- Report to the Audit Committee of the Board on cyclical audit and compliance agenda items and to the Board on financial statement updates.
- Attract, hire, train, manage and motivate an accounting team of highly skilled and driven individuals.
- Manage cash and investments as well as Rocketship Public School’s external relationships with auditors, lenders, bondholders, insurers and other financial institutions.
- Successfully represent Rocketship’s financial needs, interests and results with internal and external stakeholders.
- Ensure the accounting team is viewed as a positive support to the organization’s mission.
Qualifications
- A belief in the mission and education model of Rocketship Public Schools.
- CPA and/or MBA (preferred).
- A minimum of 8 years of broad accounting experience serving as a senior leader in a non-profit or for-profit entity.
- Non-profit accounting experience preferred, charter school experience a plus.
- Experience with bond accounting, bond covenant calculations and lease accounting.
- Strong understanding and oversight of the accounting function.
- Robust understanding and oversight of all compliance matters.
- Excellent communication skills especially with critical data.
- Strong understanding of Federal and State grant compliance requirements.
- Residence in a Rocketship region (Bay Area, Milwaukee, Nashville, Washington DC) is strongly preferred.
- Experience in an organization experiencing emerging growth.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.
- Regularly required to talk, hear, and communicate with both adults and children.
- Frequently required to use hands or fingers, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls.
- Frequently required to stand; walk; sit; and reach with hands and arms.
- Occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally climb ladders.
- Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus.
- The noise level in the work environment is moderate to high.
Compensation
Commensurate with qualifications and experience, plus excellent health and wellness benefits, 403b retirement plan, flexible spending account (FSA), and generous paid time off.
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Salary
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commensurate with qualifications and experience
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Remote
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USA
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Job Type
full-time
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Posted
Mar 29, 2025
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| đź“Ť | Be aware of the location restriction for this remote position: USA |
| ‼ | Beware of scams! When applying for jobs, you should NEVER have to pay anything. Learn more. |
