Corporate Controller

B A L • Richardson, TX

23d

About The Position

The Corporate Controller owns BAL’s financial controls environment, audit governance, and lender/covenant reporting posture. This is a controls, compliance, and governance-ownership role — it carries the executive presence for Finance with auditors, lenders, and firm leadership. BAL is undergoing significant technological and organizational change. This role requires genuine learning agility and technical aptitude — not just tolerance for change. Serves as an influential voice in technology and process deployment decisions — a participant in shaping system changes, not just an end user. Evaluates, questions, and champions system/process changes through a controls and financial-integrity lens; asks the right questions whenever new technology touches financial data or workflows. Prior experience navigating systems transformation, ERP change, or major process redesign. Hands-on: willing and able to dig into transaction-level detail when something doesn’t tie out, not manage exclusively from a dashboard. Comfortable being the “no” or “not yet” voice when controls or compliance require it. This is a governance role, not a cheerleading role. Curious and adaptable enough to stay credible as the firm’s technology and processes evolve. Operates through influence and control authority rather than line management.

Requirements

• Track record owning internal controls design and execution — risk assessment, control testing, remediation.
• Experience in a high-transaction-volume environment (high invoice/payment throughput, complex AR/AP flows).
• Professional services industry background — law firm, consulting, or similar partner/client-billing model — with working understanding of WIP, billing cycles, and PS-specific revenue recognition.
• Has led or directly managed external audits and owned the process.
• Experience preparing or managing compliance reporting under a credit facility, revolver, or debt covenant structure.
• Strong GAAP technical knowledge with proven practical application.
• Direct, credible communicator who can explain financial risk and control gaps clearly to non-finance executives.
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance required.
• 10+ years of progressive controls/audit/compliance leadership experience required.

Nice To Haves

• Candidates should have built or significantly matured a controls environment before, not only maintained one.
• SOX exposure is a good indicator but not required.
• CPA strongly preferred, not required.

Responsibilities

• Own the design, execution, and maturity of the internal controls framework — risk assessment, control testing, and remediation.
• Maintain continuous audit readiness as an operating posture, not an annual event.
• Own the audit relationship process directly.
• Prepare and manage lender/covenant reporting under a credit facility, revolver, or similar debt structure.
• Serve as the primary point of authority for auditors and lenders, and represent the firm’s control posture in executive-level financial reporting.
• Identify and flag control gaps or financial-integrity risk to the CFO and Finance leadership.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior