Role Description
You are a hands-on accounting leader who has built a strong foundation across the accounting function and is ready to take the next significant step in your career. You have developed broad accounting experience within a small to mid-sized, multi-entity organization, where you have been close to the details and understand what it takes to successfully manage the day-to-day accounting needs of a growing business while leading others to deliver results.
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Combine strong technical accounting knowledge with a practical, roll-up-your-sleeves leadership approach.
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Comfortable setting direction and stepping into the work—moving between financial reporting, revenue recognition, cash forecasting, treasury, accounting operations, systems, and process improvement.
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Take ownership, mobilize the right people, develop solutions, and drive them through to completion.
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Establish clear expectations, hold others accountable, develop talent, and execute through a team.
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Responsive, resourceful, curious, and motivated by the opportunity to build, improve, and lead from the front.
Qualifications
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Bachelor's degree in Accounting required.
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7+ years of progressive accounting experience, with broad, hands-on exposure across the accounting function.
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Must reside in the Eastern Time Zone.
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Current or recent experience as an Accounting Manager, Senior Accounting Manager, Assistant Controller, early-career Controller, or comparable accounting leadership role.
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Experience within a small to mid-sized organization where you have worked across multiple areas of accounting and remained close to day-to-day financial operations.
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Demonstrated experience working within a multi-entity accounting environment.
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Experience supporting global or international accounting operations, including working across multiple countries, entities, or geographically dispersed teams.
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Strong understanding of the full accounting cycle with demonstrated experience leading or playing a significant role in month-end and year-end close.
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Strong working knowledge of U.S. GAAP.
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Hands-on ASC 606 revenue recognition experience.
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Experience reviewing contracts and transactions and determining appropriate accounting treatment.
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Strong financial and management reporting experience, including revenue, margins, operating expenses, profitability, balance sheet, and cash flow.
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Experience with cash forecasting, treasury, cash management, and banking activities.
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Experience leading, supervising, coaching, and developing accounting staff.
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Demonstrated experience building or significantly improving accounting processes, controls, or reporting infrastructure.
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Experience with accounting automation, ERP optimization, systems implementation, or process improvement initiatives.
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Advanced Excel skills and strong overall financial systems aptitude.
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Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and Xero strongly preferred; experience with comparable ERP and accounting platforms will also be considered.
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CPA preferred, but not required.
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Experience within SaaS, professional services, or a similarly dynamic accounting environment preferred.
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Strong analytical, critical-thinking, and problem-solving skills.
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Strong leadership capabilities with the confidence to establish expectations, drive accountability, and make decisions.
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Exceptional responsiveness, communication, ownership, and follow-through.
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Proactive and capable of working independently, managing competing priorities, and delivering under tight deadlines.
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Demonstrated adaptability and flexibility in response to the evolving needs of the business.
Requirements
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Build and improve scalable accounting processes, controls, and reporting structures across a global, multi-entity organization.
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Lead the monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close process, partnering with the Assistant Controller and accounting team to ensure accurate and timely completion of accounting deliverables.
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Prepare and oversee financial and management reporting, including revenue, margins, operating expenses, profitability, cash flow, and key business drivers.
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Serve as a technical accounting resource with strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP and ASC 606 revenue recognition.
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Review contracts and complex transactions and determine appropriate accounting treatment.
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Own the company's cash forecasting process, including 13-week and rolling 12-month forecasts, forecast-to-actual analysis, and liquidity planning.
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Manage treasury activities, banking administration, cash positioning, and related financial controls.
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Provide leadership and oversight to the Accounts Payable function through the AP Supervisor.
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Lead and develop accounting staff while establishing clear expectations, accountability, responsiveness, and follow-through.
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Maintain and strengthen balance sheet reconciliations, accounting controls, policies, and supporting documentation.
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Lead accounting and Finance automation, systems optimization, and process improvement initiatives.
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Serve as a Finance systems subject-matter expert across Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Xero, banking platforms, and related systems.
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Identify opportunities to reduce manual processes, improve system integrations, strengthen controls, and increase reporting efficiency and accuracy.
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Partner with Finance leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to understand financial results, resolve accounting matters, and support informed business decisions.
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Coordinate external audit activities and support tax, compliance, and other financial reporting requirements.
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Continuously evaluate accounting processes and infrastructure to ensure they effectively support the evolving needs and continued growth of the organization.
Benefits
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Base Salary $110,000 + incentive plan.
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Employer contribution toward company sponsored health plans.
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Dental & Vision plans offered.
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Employer paid Short-term Disability & Employer paid Long-term Disability.
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Employer paid Life Insurance Policy ($100,000).
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Employer paid Accidental Death & Dismemberment Policy ($100,000).
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401K participation, with 4% Employer Matching Contribution.
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Paid Time Off and annual holiday closure.
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Parental Leave (Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption Leaves).