Controller, Accounting, Financial Reporting

Confidential, retained search on behalf of a high growth bakery brand

Location

Utah

About the role

We are conducting a confidential search for a Controller for a growing bakery brand. This is a key accounting and finance role for someone who can live comfortably in the details while also helping ownership understand the bigger financial picture.

You will serve as the Controller across a dozen-plus related entities, including AP, AR, reconciliations, month-end close, reporting, cash visibility, and financial analysis. This is a great fit for someone who is organized, detail-oriented, practical, and comfortable managing a high volume of accounting activity across multiple entities.

What you will own

Multi entity accounting

• Support accounting activity across a dozen plus related entities
• Maintain clean books, schedules, and records by entity
• Track intercompany activity and help keep entity level reporting accurate
• Support entity level reconciliations, allocations, and month end close
• Help create consistent accounting processes across the organization

AP and AR

• Own accounts payable and accounts receivable workflows
• Review, code, and process vendor invoices
• Maintain vendor records, payment schedules, and supporting documentation
• Track customer payments, deposits, receivables, and outstanding balances
• Follow up on missing documentation, payment questions, and invoice discrepancies
• Support weekly payment runs and cash planning

Core accounting

• Manage reconciliations, journal entries, accruals, and account schedules
• Keep financial records clean, accurate, and current
• Support banking, credit card, balance sheet, and general ledger reconciliations
• Identify gaps, errors, trends, and areas of financial risk
• Create repeatable accounting processes that improve consistency and accuracy

Month end close and reporting

• Support and improve the monthly close process
• Prepare financial statements, account reconciliations, and management reports
• Track key business metrics and help ownership understand what the numbers are saying
• Create reporting that is clear, useful, and tied to business decisions
• Maintain accurate entity level reporting across locations, concepts, and related entities

Cash flow and expense management

• Monitor cash activity and support cash flow visibility
• Review vendor payments, expenses, purchasing activity, and credit card transactions
• Help tighten controls around spend, approvals, and documentation
• Support banking, credit card, and balance sheet reconciliations
• Help ownership understand upcoming cash needs, payment timing, and financial priorities

Financial analysis and business support

• Analyze sales, labor, food cost, waste, inventory, margins, and entity level performance
• Partner with operations to identify opportunities to improve profitability
• Support budgeting, forecasting, cash flow planning, and variance analysis
• Build simple financial models, reports, and dashboards as needed
• Translate financial information into practical insights for ownership and operators

Payroll, vendors, and outside partners

• Coordinate with tax partners, and outside accounting resources
• Support payroll review, labor reporting, and related reconciliations
• Maintain vendor records, payment schedules, and required documentation
• Help organize information for tax, audit, lending, or investor needs
• Follow up quickly and professionally with vendors, partners, and internal stakeholders

Growth readiness

• Build accounting and finance rhythms that can scale with the brand
• Improve visibility into cash, profitability, labor, inventory, and cost trends
• Support system improvements, reporting enhancements, and financial process upgrades
• Help create simple dashboards, scorecards, and tools that leaders can actually use
• Bring discipline to the numbers without over complicating the business

What success looks like in the first 90 days

• You understand the current financial picture and identify the biggest accounting and reporting priorities
• You strengthen the close process, reconciliations, reporting cadence, and financial controls
• You create clearer visibility into cash, payables, receivables, payroll, sales, labor, food cost, and entity level performance
• You bring better organization to AP, AR, vendor records, account schedules, and entity level reporting
• You build trust with ownership by being accurate, responsive, and practical
• You help the business make better decisions with cleaner numbers and clearer financial insight

Must have

• Strong accounting experience in a growing business environment
• Experience working with multiple entities, locations, departments, or business units
• Ability to own AP, AR, reconciliations, journal entries, accruals, and month end close
• Comfort managing high volume accounting details without losing accuracy
• Strong understanding of P and L, balance sheet, cash flow, and basic financial controls
• Ability to support both transactional accounting and higher level financial analysis
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to keep multiple entities clean and current
• Practical, business minded…