Financial Controller Job Grand Rapids area,Michigan USA,Accounting

Are you a hands‑on accounting leader who likes ownership, clean processes, and making things run the right way?

ITPartners+ is looking for an Accounting Lead to own day‑to‑day accounting operations and bring consistency, discipline, and clarity to our close, billing, and accounting workflows. This is a hands‑on operational role where you will prepare work, review work, and improve how accounting gets done.

If you enjoy being close to the details, building reliable processes, and serving as the steady owner of accounting execution, this role is for you.

Who We Are

ITPartners+ is a rapidly growing Managed Services Provider and a multi‑year Best and Brightest Companies to Work For. Our core values, Do Great Work, Think Big, and Make IT Fun,guide how we operate, grow, and support our team.

We believe strong financial discipline enables smart growth. This role plays a critical part in helping our leadership team make confident, informed decisions.

Who You Are

You take ownership and follow through. You are comfortable rolling up your sleeves while also reviewing and guiding others. You care about accuracy, organization, and building repeatable processes that work.

You do not just close the books. You make the close better every month.

What You’ll Do (Key Responsibilities)

Own the Monthly Close:
Lead the month‑end close from start to finish, including journal entries, reconciliations, accruals, payroll entries, and supporting schedules — ensuring accuracy, completeness, and on‑time delivery.

Ensure Strong Accounting Review & Controls:
Act as the hands‑on reviewer for accounting work, maintaining clean support, organized work papers, and practical review points while escalating judgment items when needed.

Protect Revenue & Support Billing and AR Integrity:
Serve as an accounting watchdog over billing, AR, credits, cash application, and recurring revenue — actively identifying exceptions, gaps, and leakage risk.

Improve Accounting Operations Through Leadership & Automation:
Lead & hold accountable a team of 3 accounting and billing specialists. Coordinate accounting workflows, assign ownership, and introduce practical automation or AI‑enabled tools that improve follow‑up and reliability without weakening controls.

Merger + Acquisition Accounting Ownership:
Support full cycle accounting for acquired businesses, ensuring opening balances, revenue, payables, payroll, and related are accurate, supported, and properly coded. Actively participates in all stages including initial prospect review, due diligence, deal close, and post‑merger integration.

What Success Looks Like

The monthly close runs through clear calendars and checklists
Accounting schedules are organized, supported, and repeatable
Revenue and spend risks are identified early, not after the fact
Leadership and/or fractional CFO receives reviewed outputs and clear exceptions
Accounting operations scale smoothly as the business grows

Required Qualifications

7+ years of accounting experience
Prior Controller, Assistant Controller, or Accounting Manager experience
Strong month‑end close ownership and review experience
Solid knowledge of AP, AR, payroll accounting, accruals, and reconciliations
Strong Excel skills and comfort working with accounting extracts and schedules

Preferred Experience

MSP, IT services, or professional services environments
Quick Books Online and related finance systems
Recurring revenue, WIP, or project‑based accounting
Acquisition‑active or multi‑entity environments
Experience using automation or workflow tools in accounting operations

Benefits of Working at ITPartners+

99% fully paid healthcare coverage for employees
Equity participation and profit‑sharing bonuses
Health premiums subsidized for family
Optional subsidized dental and vision insurance
Life insurance, AD&D, and long‑term disability
Maternity and paternity leave (including foster and adoption)
Virtually unlimited paid time off
Strong focus on personal growth
A fun, people‑first work environment with company events

Equal Opportunity Employer

ITPartners+ is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability, or age.

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