Controller, Accounting, Financial Reporting

CFO’s Domain is a Consulting & Recruiting firm serving CFOs and their stakeholders. Our search practice recruits and works with the most relevantly skilled and pedigreed professionals looking to excel in their careers.

Our client is a PE-backed high growth executive services organization with potential M&A activity on the horizon. The company is seeking to scale its accounting operations and build a world‑class accounting function by adding a Controller to lead the function and partner closely with the Chief Financial Officer.

The ideal candidate brings strong controllership experience, technical accounting depth, a hands‑on leadership style, and a track record of improving accounting operations in a growth‑oriented business with evolving processes, systems, and reporting requirements.

• Lead the full-cycle general ledger close process and ensure accurate, timely monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting in accordance with U.S. GAAP.
• Oversee the preparation of management reporting packages, financial statements, business-level reporting, supporting schedules, reconciliations, and tie-outs to underlying detail.
• Partner with the CFO and finance leadership to prepare reporting materials for executive leadership, internal stakeholders, external advisors, lenders, and other key constituents as needed.
• Establish, document, and maintain accounting policies across key areas such as revenue recognition, reserves, capitalized costs, impairment considerations, lease accounting, equity-related accounting, and other technical accounting matters.
• Prepare technical accounting documentation, whitepapers, and policy memos to support accounting conclusions and consistent policy application.
• Lead revenue close activities, including review of commercial arrangements, customer contracts, billing activity, revenue schedules, deferred revenue, variable consideration, commission-related items, and ASC 606 revenue recognition.
• Partner cross-functionally with finance, operations, sales, and business leaders to ensure accurate revenue reporting across multiple offerings, customer arrangements, billing structures, and reporting dimensions.
• Develop and maintain operational and financial KPI reporting related to contract activity, revenue performance, billing and collections trends, working capital, cash conversion, and other key business metrics.
• Design, document, and improve internal controls, including segregation of duties, system access controls, accounting policies, procedures, reconciliations, and close review processes.
• Manage equity-related accounting, including stock-based compensation calculations, equity roll-forward schedules, and related reporting requirements.
• Lead, mentor, and develop the accounting team, with a focus on accountability, process discipline, technical accuracy, and continuous improvement.
• Review monthly financial results and period-over-period variances for reasonableness, accuracy, completeness, and alignment with business performance.
• Lead accounting system initiatives, including ERP migration or optimization, module enhancements, finance-system integrations, opening balance validation, process redesign, data validation, controls, training, and post-implementation improvements.
• Improve the speed, quality, and reliability of the monthly close process, with a focus on reducing close timelines and strengthening reporting discipline.
• Streamline contract-to-cash and order-to-cash processes, accounts receivable tracking, collections visibility, DSO performance, and cash conversion reporting.
• Lead external audit activities and coordinate statutory, tax, valuation, transfer pricing, and other third-party advisory relationships.
• Partner with the CFO to evaluate accounting and finance team structure, role clarity, resource allocation, process ownership, and opportunities to improve efficiency and risk management.
• Serve as a key accounting partner to the CFO on new business initiatives, transaction-related matters, evolving commercial strategies, and other strategic finance topics.
• Support treasury, liquidity management, transaction support, integration planning, and ad hoc financial…