Controller​/VP, Finance, CFO Advisory Services

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Full Time Dallas, TX, Dallas, TX, US

GA Group is a leading provider of advisory, valuation, field exam, liquidation, asset-based lending, investment banking, restructuring advisory, and real estate services. With more than 50 years of experience and a global footprint, we partner with leading financial institutions and corporations to navigate complex transactions, optimize operations, and drive value. Our collaborative, results-driven culture is powered by a deep bench of industry experts dedicated to solving our clients’ most critical challenges.

We offer competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package, including a 401(k) profit‑sharing retirement plan, paid holidays, vacation and sick leave, voluntary medical, dental, vision coverage, and company‑paid life and disability insurance.

GA Group is majority‑owned by funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management, L.P.

GA Group is seeking experienced finance leaders to join its CFO Advisory Practice in Dallas or Houston, Texas. This is an evergreen opportunity designed to build a bench of high‑caliber professionals who can serve in interim, project‑based, and advisory leadership roles for middle‑market and private equity‑backed companies.

Depending on experience and client need, professionals may be deployed as a Vice President of Finance/Controller or in a comparable senior finance leadership capacity. Engagements may involve stabilizing a finance organization during leadership transitions, supporting a newly acquired portfolio company, preparing for an audit or transaction, improving reporting and forecasting, strengthening accounting processes and controls, or leading finance transformation initiatives.

The successful candidate brings both public accounting experience and meaningful in‑house corporate finance or accounting leadership experience. They are comfortable operating hands‑on in fast‑paced, high‑accountability environments and can quickly build credibility with management teams, private equity sponsors, lenders, auditors, and other stakeholders.

GA Group’s CFO Advisory Practice serves as a strategic finance partner and trusted advisor to middle‑market and private equity‑backed companies. The team provides specialized financial advisory services across the business lifecycle, including interim finance leadership, office of the CFO support, finance transformation, financial reporting and modeling, technical accounting, audit readiness, deal and M&A advisory, and PE portfolio company advisory.

Responsibilities will vary by engagement, level, and client need, but may include:

• Serve as interim VP of Finance,Controlleror senior finance leader for client organizations.
• Lead and improve monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes, including financial statement preparation, account reconciliations, accruals, consolidation, and management reporting.
• Develop timely,accurate, and decision‑useful reporting packages for executive leadership, boards of directors, lenders, and private equity sponsors.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, cash‑flow management, working‑capital analysis, and financial modeling.
• Assess finance and accounting functions,identifyprocessand control gaps, and implement practical improvements across people, processes, systems, and reporting.
• Strengthen internal controls, accounting policies, documentation, and governance practices.
• Manage external audit preparation and execution, including audit schedules, PBC coordination, financial statement support, and issue resolution.
• Advise clients on U.S. GAAP, technical accounting matters, financial reporting requirements, and accounting policy implementation.
• Support transaction‑related work, including pre‑transaction accounting cleanup, quality‑of‑ earnings readiness, diligence coordination, carve‑out support, and post‑close integration.
• Partner with private equity operating teams and portfolio company leadership to establish reporting disciplines, improve…