Controller, Accounting, Financial Reporting

The role involves overseeing the accounting function, ensuring compliance with accounting standards, and leading a team to enhance financial reporting processes. The successful candidate will drive improvements in the monthly close process and maintain strong internal controls.

• Establish and maintain strong accounting policies, effective internal controls, and documented standard operating procedures (SOPs) across the accounting function, including desk-level procedures, review and approval workflows, and version control, with regular audits to confirm the team is operating to the standard.
• Drive the monthly accounting close process, manage an accounting team of 4-5 individuals, and continuously improve the close and reporting cycles using existing systems to reduce manual effort and reliance on standalone spreadsheets.
• Prepare and review monthly journal entries, including stock compensation, equity and debt investment activity, asset purchases and fair value measurements, and other complex transactions.
• Own the accounting for purchased credit-deteriorated (PCD) receivable portfolios under ASC 310-30 / ASC 326, including pool-level yield accretion, amortization, cash flow re-forecasting, putbacks and repurchases, zero-basis recoveries, and impairment and allowance analysis.
• Manage multi-entity consolidation across Hold Co, SPV, and related-party structures, including intercompany eliminations, related-party allocations, and equity method or non-controlling interest treatment.
• Account for debt and equity instruments, including convertible notes, deferred financing costs and debt issuance cost amortization, warrants, member capital accounts, and distributions.
• Prepare credit agreement and lender covenant reporting, including borrowing base reporting, compliance certificates, covenant calculations, and responses to lender and investor information requests.
• Lead treasury management and optimization, including daily cash positioning, bank account administration, short-term and long-term cash forecasting, and debt draw and paydown planning.
• Establish and maintain a cost management program that holds budget owners accountable for their budgets and spend, including budget versus actual reporting by owner, vendor and contract spend oversight, purchase approval thresholds, and clear reporting on trends, exceptions, and variances requiring action.
• Maintain the general ledger and chart of accounts, including administration of Oracle Net Suite and Planning/Smart View, substitution variables, reporting hierarchies, and the period close lock process.
• Own the accounting for internally developed software and internal-use systems under ASC 350-40, including project-level cost tracking, determining which development costs qualify for capitalization, useful life and amortization decisions, and impairment review, working with IT and engineering leadership so accounting treatment stays aligned with the technology roadmap.
• Preparation and reporting of monthly, quarterly and annual financial statements including quarterly statements of cash flow.
• Lead the annual GAAP audit with external auditors and ensure timely completion; run point on annual field testing, lender and investor diligence, and other compliance-related reporting requests, including preparation of supporting schedules and coordination of responses across the organization.
• Ensure company remains current in applying existing and new accounting pronouncements and is in compliance with U.S. GAAP; prepare memos and technical memorandums for new pronouncements or transactions.
• Proactively work with operations and IT to identify trends and issues and resolve operational accounting and reporting issues.
• Advise and interact with CFO on technical…