Controller, Accounting, Financial Reporting

Reports to:

Managing Partner | Direct Reports: 4 |

Location:

Los Angeles / Century City (On-Site)

Adamson Ahdoot LLP is one of Southern California's largest and fastest-growing plaintiff-side personal injury firms, with approximately 130 employees. The firm handles personal injury and plaintiff mass tort matters from its Century City headquarters, and maintains a major active docket in Eaton Fire wildfire litigation involving thousands of claimants.

As a contingency-fee firm, we have no traditional accounts receivable. Revenue is recognized at settlement — paid by insurance carriers, defendants, or QSF distributions. The financial model is high-volume, case-driven, and requires close coordination between settlement receipts, trust accounting, cost recovery, and claimant disbursements. We are a firm that values building strong systems and scalable processes as we continue to grow.

We are hiring a dedicated Controller — an experienced, process-oriented finance leader who will own the accuracy, integrity, and operational efficiency of our accounting function. You will report directly to the Managing Partner, lead a four-person team, and serve as the firm's internal authority on financial controls, reporting, and process design.

We are looking for someone who brings a builder's mindset to this role: a professional who sees process gaps as opportunities, reaches for technology to solve recurring problems, and takes pride in building accounting infrastructure that runs reliably without constant intervention. The firm's stack includes Quick Books Online, Salesforce, a QSF settlement administration platform, and Tableau — comfort operating across all four, and integrating them where beneficial, will be important to success in this role.

In year one, we would expect this person to establish a disciplined monthly close process, tighten internal controls across trust accounting and AP, build out financial reporting that gives leadership clear visibility into firm performance, and take day-to-day financial operations off the Managing Partner's plate entirely.

• A documented, repeatable monthly close process with defined ownership, timelines, and checklists.
• Internal controls across trust accounting, AP, and settlement disbursements that are enforced through process and system design.
• A functioning Salesforce to Quick Books Online reconciliation that accurately tracks case cost advances, gross settlements, and net distributions.
• QSF settlement administration workflow owned end-to-end — from settlement receipt through claimant disbursement — with clear stage gates and exception handling.
• Executive-ready Tableau dashboards providing leadership with real-time visibility into P&L, cash position, cost recovery, and matter-level financials.

• Document, standardize, and continuously improve all accounting workflows — close process, AP cycle, trust reconciliation, settlement accounting, and reporting cadence.
• Own the monthly close end to end: GL accuracy, reconciliations, accruals, and financial statements delivered on a defined, reliable calendar.
• Implement checklists, stage-gate controls, and escalation protocols so processes run predictably.
• Identify manual and email-driven workflows in the accounting function and develop a roadmap to streamline or automate them.

• Own the Salesforce to Quick Books Online integration — designing and maintaining the data flow that keeps case costs, settlement proceeds, and disbursements reconciled across systems.
• Administer Quick Books Online: chart of accounts, class tracking, approval workflows, and reporting structure.
• Build and maintain Tableau dashboards for firm…