Financial Controller

Platform Accounting Group • Cottonwood Heights, UT

6d • Onsite

About The Position

The Controller is a senior finance leader responsible for the integrity, timeliness, and scalability of the company’s accounting and financial reporting environment. This hands-on leadership role will standardize accounting across a decentralized, multi-entity organization; strengthen the close and control environment; integrate acquisitions; and translate financial information into clear business implications. The successful candidate will bring technical depth, a builder mindset, strong operating discipline, and the ability to lead through complexity and change.

Platform Accounting Group is a rapidly growing professional services firm providing tax, accounting, assurance, IT consulting, and wealth management services to small and medium-sized businesses and their owners. With more than 50 offices across 15+ states, the company offers a dynamic environment, flexible work arrangements, and a commitment to professional development and work-life balance. This position requires on-site work in Holladay, Utah.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or a related field.
• Active CPA license.
• 10+ years of progressive accounting and finance experience, including significant leadership responsibility in a complex, multi-entity environment.
• Strong command of U.S. GAAP, technical accounting, financial reporting, internal controls, close, consolidation, and audit.
• Demonstrated experience with acquisition accounting and post-close finance integration.
• Proven ability to build or transform accounting teams, processes, systems, and controls in a high-growth environment.
• Strong business judgment and ability to lead through ambiguity, competing priorities, and rapid change.
• Executive-level communication and influence skills, including the ability to translate technical matters into practical business implications.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel and modern ERP, consolidation, reporting, and close-management tools.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in a private equity-backed, highly acquisitive, decentralized, or multi-location organization.
• Background spanning public accounting and corporate controllership roles.
• Professional services or another people-based services industry background.
• Experience with NetSuite, Workday Adaptive Planning, systems integration, shared services, lender reporting, or board reporting.

Responsibilities

• Own monthly, quarterly, and annual close and consolidation across a multi-entity organization, including calendars, ownership, review standards, reconciliations, and escalation protocols.
• Oversee the general ledger, intercompany activity, eliminations, accruals, revenue and expense recognition, fixed assets, and balance-sheet integrity.
• Prepare and review financial statements, management reporting, supporting schedules, and variance explanations, ensuring compliance with U.S. GAAP, company policies, and debt-reporting requirements.
• Improve the accuracy, speed, consistency, and transparency of financial reporting.
• Lead finance integration from acquisition diligence and pre-close planning through opening balance sheets, purchase accounting, and steady-state operations.
• Partner with Corporate Development, Legal, Tax, Treasury, FP&A, Operations, and external advisors on transaction accounting, integration risks, and required actions.
• Develop repeatable integration playbooks and incorporate acquired firms into the chart of accounts, close calendar, policies, controls, reporting, and systems while maintaining business continuity.
• Research and document complex accounting matters, including business combinations, revenue recognition, debt and equity, leases, goodwill, intangible assets, and impairments.
• Lead the external audit, maintain year-round audit readiness, and ensure clear accounting policies, position papers, and supporting documentation.
• Design and maintain scalable internal controls, approval authorities, segregation of duties, and remediation plans across the platform and local offices.
• Strengthen controls over cash, revenue, payroll, payments, expenses, journal entries, master data, system access, and financial reporting.
• Standardize and automate accounting processes to reduce manual work, duplication, and key-person dependency.
• Optimize ERP, consolidation, close-management, accounts payable, expense, and reporting tools; improve data quality, interfaces, access controls, and reporting reliability.
• Establish scalable accounting structures and metrics for close performance, reconciliation quality, audit readiness, control remediation, and acquisition integration.
• Serve as a trusted partner to the CFO and leadership team, bringing accounting, control, cash, and risk perspectives to business decisions.
• Translate financial results and technical matters into clear implications and recommended actions; partner with FP&A to align actuals, forecasts, budgets, KPIs, and management reporting.
• Work with operating and acquired-firm leaders to resolve issues, improve accountability, and strengthen financial discipline while balancing partnership with appropriate challenge.
• Lead and develop the accounting organization, establish clear roles and expectations, and build the capacity and operating model required for continued growth.

Benefits

• Opportunity for advancement within a rapidly growing professional services firm.
• Ongoing informal and formal training and development.
• Competitive compensation.
• 401(k) and medical benefits.
• Firm-sponsored continuing education.

What This Job Offers

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