Director, Assistant Controller

Crowley Maritime Corporation • Jacksonville, FL

12d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Director, Assistant Controller oversees assigned accounting operations and financial reporting activities, ensuring the accuracy, completeness, and integrity of financial information. This role leads accounting teams, maintains effective internal controls, drives process improvements, supports compliance requirements, and partners with business and finance leaders to support organizational objectives. The position provides leadership across accounting processes, financial governance, risk management, and operational excellence while fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive accounting leadership experience in a large, complex, multi-entity organization.
• Controllership leadership spanning both record-to-report and transactional accounting operations (accounts payable, accounts receivable, credit, payroll accounting).
• Demonstrated ownership of internal control design, control evidence standards and external audit support.
• Experience with reserve methodology, including bad debt/CECL, and risk or loss accrual estimation.
• Track record of process standardization, automation and shared-service or outsourced-provider governance.
• Experience leading managers of teams through growth, integration and transformation
• CPA required.
• Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance required
• US GAAP required
• Intermediate proficiency with AI assistants (for example Microsoft Copilot or Claude) applied to automation and efficiency gains across close, reconciliation and transactional operations — identifying use cases, designing repeatable prompts and workflows, quantifying effort and cycle time savings, and driving adoption and safe-use standards across the team.
• Leadership competencies: Operational excellence, continuous improvement mindset, process discipline, strategic thinking, change leadership. Talent development, executive communication, collaboration and influence, accountability, results orientation.
• Technical competencies: Record-to-report operations, close management, general ledger accounting, account reconciliations, balance sheet governance.
• Exceptional knowledge of US GAAP.
• Procure-to-pay and order-to-cash operations, credit risk management, risk/captive insurance accounting, travel and expense management, payroll accounting.
• Reserve estimation (bad debt/CECL, risk and loss accruals), unclaimed property compliance, master data governance.
• Internal control design and evidence standards, process narratives, SLA governance; ERP platforms (Oracle Cloud preferred).

Nice To Haves

• MBA or advanced degree preferred
• technical research and application (preferred but not required)
• Oracle Cloud (preferred) or SAP
• BlackLine or equivalent
• Power BI or Alteryx
• RPA, workflow tooling, Lean/Six Sigma concepts

Responsibilities

• Lead assigned accounting functions and related financial reporting activities.
• Ensure timely and accurate completion of month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities.
• Oversee accounting processes, reconciliations, reporting, and compliance requirements.
• Establish and maintain effective accounting policies, procedures, and internal controls.
• Support preparation and review of financial analyses, reporting packages, and management information.
• Partner with Finance, Tax, Treasury, Human Resources, Operations, and other stakeholders to support business objectives.
• Coordinate internal and external audit activities and support timely resolution of audit findings.
• Identify and implement process improvements, automation opportunities, and operational efficiencies.
• Support acquisitions, integrations, system implementations, and organizational changes as required.
• Develop team capabilities through coaching, training, succession planning, and performance management.
• Owns design and operating effectiveness of internal controls across record-to-report, procure-to pay and order-to-cash; serves as the principal support contact for internal and external audit.
• Owns unclaimed property and escheatment compliance and the associated filings calendar.
• Owns shared-service SLA governance and outsourced-provider performance management.
• Provides accounting operations leadership on acquisitions, divestitures, ERP implementations and shared-service transitions.

Benefits

• Competitive pay with recognition programs
• Comprehensive benefits: medical, dental, and vision insurance, life and disability coverage, and paid vacation and holidays
• Leave and family support: parental leave and sick leave
• Learning and growth: access to training and development for continuous skill development
• Well-being resources: Employee Assistance Program, wellness program, and gym membership discounts

What This Job Offers

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