Controller, Accounting, Financial Reporting

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Overview:

Our client is consolidating multiple acquired brands onto a unified financial platform. We need an experienced, hands-on Controller who can step in immediately to stabilize monthly close, strengthen controls, and mentor the existing accounting team while we conduct a permanent search. Expect a fast-paced SaaS/technology environment with complex multi-entity, multi-currency operations.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and shorten close cycle to ≤5 business days; prepare consolidated financials across ~20 legal entities.
• Ensure ASC 606 revenue recognition, purchase-price accounting, and software capitalization are recorded accurately under U.S. GAAP.
• Map current workflows, identify gaps, and implement quick-win automation in Net Suite (or similar), Black Line, and BI tools.
• Design/refresh key controls, draft process narratives, and coordinate walkthroughs with external auditors.
• Serve as primary contact for Big 4/Top 10 audit firm; compile PBC lists, address inquiries, and support federal/state tax filings.
• Mentor a 10-person accounting team (GL, A/P, A/R, revenue) and embed best practices that will endure after the contract ends.
• Work closely with FP&A, Treasury, Legal, and M&A integration teams to ensure data integrity and alignment with corporate KPIs.

Ideal Profile:

• CPA (active or inactive) with 10+ years’ progressive accounting leadership; at least 3 years as Controller in a SaaS or multi-entity company.
• Experience operating as a Controller in a PE-Backed firm required
• Deep knowledge of U.S. GAAP, ASC 606, purchase accounting, and SOX/404.
• Proven track record improving close speed and building scalable processes during rapid growth or post-acquisition integration.
• Expert user of Net Suite (or comparable ERP), advanced Excel/Google Sheets; experience with consolidation tools a plus.
• Comfortable working remotely, managing distributed teams, and driving change with limited supervision.
• Strong communication skills—able to translate accounting impacts for non-finance stakeholders.
• Duration:2-3 months (with potential extension or conversion)
• Schedule:
  
  Full-time, 40 hrs/week

• Seniority level
  
  Mid-Senior level

• Employment type
  
  Contract

• Job function
  
  Accounting/Auditing
• Industries Software Development

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