Controller, Accounting, Financial Compliance

Under the direction of the Director of Finance, the Controller leads the organization’s day-to-day accounting operations and is responsible for maintaining the integrity of its financial records, internal controls, reporting, and regulatory compliance. The Controller oversees the general ledger, AP, AR, and billing, monthly and annual close processes, financial statement preparation, and audit coordination. The position ensures compliance with GAAP, federal grant requirements, WIOA, and applicable federal, state, and local regulations.

The Controller supervises accounting staff and partners with the Director of Finance to ensure reliable accounting information and effective financial operations. This hands‑on leadership role offers a significant opportunity to strengthen and modernize accounting operations. The Controller will help stabilize processes, improve financial systems and data integrity, resolve legacy issues, and build a disciplined and sustainable accounting function.

• Serve as the organization’s senior technical accounting authority, exercising independent judgment to research and resolve complex accounting issues, determine appropriate accounting treatment, correct current and historical errors, and clearly communicate the financial impact, root cause, and resolution to the Director of Finance and other stakeholders.
• Lead the monthly and annual close, account reconciliations, balance‑sheet substantiation, and financial statement review, ensuring issues are identified, investigated, and fully resolved on a timely basis.
• Lead accounting preparation for the Federal Single Audit, DCEO fiscal monitoring, and Form 990 filings. Responsibilities include reconciling the Schedule of Expenditures of Federal Awards and net assets with donor restrictions, preparing supporting schedules, and coordinating auditor and monitor requests.
• Lead the organization’s grant and fund accounting, ensuring revenues, expenditures, receivables, restricted funds, cost allocations, and related balances are accurately recorded, reconciled, supported, and reported in accordance with award terms, fund restrictions, GAAP, and applicable federal requirements.
• Ensure the timely and accurate preparation of financial statements and related reports, including statements of financial position, activities, and cash flows, as well as other reports required by management, auditors, and funding partners.
• Investigate accounting errors and unusual transactions, determine their root causes and full financial impact, implement necessary corrections, and establish or strengthen controls, procedures, training, and review processes to prevent recurrence.
• Lead accounting stabilization and continuous improvement initiatives, including resolving legacy issues, reconciling financial data across systems, strengthening close and reporting processes, and developing sustainable accounting procedures and controls.
• Partner with the Director of Finance to improve financial systems and reporting, including general-ledger integration, data validation, process redesign, documentation, and reduction of manual or duplicative activities.
• Collaborate with the WIOA Fiscal Manager to ensure WIOA‑related activity is accurately reflected in the general ledger, financial statements, and federal expenditure reporting, and address accounting issues that affect organizational financial records.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

• Diversity— Demonstrates knowledge of EEO policy; respects and values cultural differences; promotes an inclusive, respectful, and harassment‑free workplace; and supports a diverse workforce.
• Technical Accounting— Demonstrates expert knowledge of nonprofit accounting, grant and fund…