VP, Controller

Job Description

The Vice President, Controller for Care Quest Institute for Oral Health is a highly visible role that regularly interacts with the executive team and other senior leaders and serves as the main point of contact with key business partners. This role ensures robust processes and controls are in place to maintain the integrity of financial statements and leverages the latest tools and technology to support all financial operations across all three organizations (Care Quest Institute, Care Quest Innovation Partners, and Delta Dental of MA).

The VP, Controller will develop, implement, and enforce financial policies and procedures to ensure accuracy and compliance as well as provide cross‑functional support across all three organizations in order to ensure operational excellence. This position works closely with outsourced accounting and tax personnel as well as the investment custodian, Critical to this role is ensuring the annual audit complies with GAAP and has timely issuance of consolidated audited financial statements from start to completion;

coordinating with Delta Dental of Massachusetts on statutory audits and other required regulatory filings.

Prefer candidates located within the New England area who are able to be in the Boston office as needed by the CFO.

• Implements and monitors internal controls to ensure financial statement accuracy & integrity
• Owns the enterprise‑wide consolidation and roll‑up of business segments and of all legal entities
• Manages all aspects of the monthly, quarterly and annual financial close and consolidation process and ensures seamless alignment with FP&A and the management and BOD reporting process
• Works closely with all subsidiary parties to validate and ensure accuracy of all aspects of the monthly and annual financial close and reporting process
• Creates and distributes the monthly entity and consolidated financial results to senior executives
• In coordination with FP&A, monitors the company’s financial results and manages expenses within approved budgets
• Ensures Tax, GAAP & Regulatory Compliance
• Maintains and enhances chart of accounts and overall financial reporting to facilitate management decision‑making, GAAP compliance and stat reporting for regulated entities
• Responsible for managing tax processes, including federal and state income tax payments, tax compliance, and tax strategy

• Manages end‑to‑end external audit processes, ensuring compliance with GAAP and timely issuance
• Manages all tax, regulatory, and other financial compliance; establishes strong partnerships with associated auditors

• Optimizes financial tools and technologies to improve efficiency
• Implements the latest technology to drive efficiencies and ensure accuracy of results
• Skilled at developing and implementing financial accounting and reporting systems and process improvement

• Strong technical skills in accounting and financial reporting
• Applies advanced technical accounting principles to ensure compliance and accuracy
• Manages complex accounting transactions and financial consolidations
• Applies benchmarking to evaluate and improve organizational financial performance

• Works closely with CFO and FP&A team to provide strategic insights and analyses via business reports, financial forecasts and financial statements and reports results to executive leadership on the financial state of the organization
• Participates in the development of business strategy and monitors and directs implementation of strategic business plans and financial reporting of KPIs
• Keeps up with current and possible future policies, practices, and trends in the organization, the competition, and the marketplace. Uses knowledge of business drivers and how market strategies and tactics play out to guide actions. Asks the right questions to analyze situations accurately. Acquires data from multiple and diverse sources when solving problems. Uncovers root causes of complex problems. Evaluates the…