Controller, Accounting, Financial Compliance

Controller

Denver, Colorado

Bryant Park Consulting is a leading Oracle | Net Suite consulting firm dedicated to helping businesses achieve their goals through successful ERP implementations and optimizations. We are a team of experienced consultants passionate about delivering exceptional client service and driving digital transformation. At Bryant Park Consulting, we foster a collaborative and supportive environment where our employees can thrive and grow professionally.

The Controller serves as a critical leadership role within the Finance & Accounting team at Bryant Park Consulting. This position will be responsible to own the general ledger and full close of a multi-entity group with foreign subsidiaries, build and document accounting processes and policies and scale the accounting team and processes to transaction readiness. The ideal candidate is a leader with hands-on experience and high communication skills.

Responsibilities:

• Own the full close and consolidation (monthly, quarterly, and annual) across all three US entities and the international sub-entities in Net Suite. Build the processes to make that close fast, accurate, and repeatable; establish and hold a published close calendar with a target of a 5–7 business-day close.
• Own the general ledger, chart of accounts, revenue recognition, project costing and the Net Suite segmentation architecture (subsidiary, department, class, location, and custom segments) that makes practice, project, and client-level profitability reporting possible.
• Build accounting policies, written processes, and internal controls. Revenue recognition for a services business under ASC 606 time and materials, fixed fee, milestone, and retainer including WIP, unbilled revenue, and the integrity of the path from a consultant's time entry to recognized revenue.
• Run the external audit as the company-side owner, with a clear goal of a cleaner and faster audit each year. Manage international accounting and compliance: local-to-US GAAP conversion, statutory calendars, intercompany, transfer pricing execution, and multi-currency reporting.
• Support treasury and cash: daily cash, banking, the 13-week forecast, debt covenant compliance, and working capital including unbilled and WIP aging.
• Be the underlying source of truth for our operating metrics utilization, realization, effective rate, leverage, and project margin, work in partnership with FP&A, who owns the budget, forecast, and long-range model.
• Lead accounting diligence and integration on acquisitions: opening balance sheets, purchase price allocation, Net Suite subsidiary and chart of accounts conversion, ASC 805 setup, and folding new entities into the close.
• Lead, assess, develop and grow an accounting team from transactional work into technical accounting.

Qualifications:

• Professional services, consulting, or field services industry experience. Our P&L and rev rec are structured around the billable hour. This is a hard requirement.
• Fluency in billable-hour economics:
  Utilization, realization, bill rate, leverage, WIP and unbilled revenue, and project-level profitability. You should be able to tell us what moves each of these and why.
• Strong hands-on Net Suite experience, ideally with multiple subsidiaries and currencies. Be prepared to walk us through configuration and reporting you built yourself.
• 10+ years of progressive accounting experience, including 3+ years as a Controller, Assistant Controller, or Accounting Director in an organization with international exposure and consolidations.
• CPA or CMA highly preferred
• You have consolidated a multi-entity group with foreign subsidiaries intercompany, eliminations, and currency translation are familiar territory.
• You have owned an audit from the company side and can describe how you made the next one easier.
• You have experience building structures, writing policies, documenting procedures, reconciliation discipline, and controls that hold.
• You operate with strong US GAAP depth, including ASC 606 as applied to services revenue, and ASC 805 for consolidations.
• You have led a team and raised its capability, not just supervised it.

Desirable:

• Public accounting foundation, ideally…