Remote Sr. Controller

AccountingDepartment.com

104d•Remote

About The Position

Awarded Inc. Magazine's Best Workplaces for the fourth year in a row! AccountingDepartment.com is the leader in outsourced virtual accounting services for businesses - and our family is growing! Perhaps your next career adventure awaits! AccountingDepartment.com never settles with status quo. We strive to make sure our staff have plenty of opportunities that broaden skill sets and ultimately enhance career satisfaction while working here. If you're someone who wants to make a difference, is a confident communicator, loves a good challenge, and happily embraces change, then we sound like a perfect match! It's been an exciting 21 years at AccountingDepartment.com! We hope you will join us as we continue this exciting revolutionary journey we are on. Your Role: The Senior Controller is a leadership position accountable for managing an assigned team while also being a strong individual contributor; providing exceptional outsourced controllership, advisory services and strategic direction to various clients. This vital role relieves entrepreneurs from the pains and chaos of maintaining their financials and provides our clients actionable solutions. Controllership services include timely review of monthly financial reports for accuracy and implementing perfected internal process and controls to eliminate risk. Advisory services help clients achieve the visions for their business by using historical data and future projections to develop actionable plans. The individual is responsible for budgets, forecasts, analytics, and developing KPIs, while providing insight, making recommendations to clients and driving strategic decision making. The ideal candidate will be a innately organized person and comfortable managing up to 15 clients while simultaneously leading a team of 6 to 10. The nature of the work requires quick decision-making, based on knowledge of pertinent information and an intention to reduce risk factors as much as possible. An active, positive response to a variety of challenges and time pressures is also required. The Senior Controller must be self-motivated, responsive and be able to deliver best in class strategic advisory and financial operations to clients while effectively empowering a team, in a virtual environment to create an unparalleled experience for all. This position is an integral part of the leadership team and will report to an Assistant Director.

Requirements

The Senior Controller candidate will have outsourced accounting experience with transferable knowledge in accounting and financial analysis for businesses in the $5M to $25M market, and possesses 10 years supervisory experience.
Adaptive leadership style with a passion for mentoring staff. Exceptional ability to work with all levels of within the organization while fostering a culture of teamwork and collaboration.
Proven expertise in actively managing accounting functions for small to medium-sized enterprises
Comfortable with change and easily pivots when priorities change
Technical, analytical focus, handles complex issues and finds creative solutions, even in challenging situations
Excellent written and oral communication skills with ability to express oneself confidently
Exceptional organizational skills and ability to multi-task daily, weekly and monthly priorities
Strong experience with QuickBooks, NetSuite and/or other accounting software packages and passion for learning new technologies
Thrives in a fast paced environment, with a sense of urgency to achieve timely, quality results
Ability to make quick decisions based on knowledge and experience
Effectively operates within established standards and guidelines
Ability to acclimate to various client environments
High degree of computer literacy, including extensive knowledge in Microsoft Office, and specifically Outlook and Excel
Ability to travel when necessary
Bachelor’s in Accounting or Finance

Nice To Haves

CPA license, CMA or MBA preferred

Responsibilities

Leading and mentoring accounting team for assigned clients. Motivates team to provide best in class service. Provides coaching, delivers timely feedback and conducts reviews to ensure staff are set up for success.
Develops an understanding and awareness of each client’s unique business and accounting needs and requirements. Provides strategic leadership into the scalable accounting operations of each client’s business, ensuring their internal control systems, policies and procedures are consistently followed.
Manage the month-end closing and issuance of financial reports to all clients, every month.
Partner with client’s leadership on operational and strategic decisions to enhance their performance. Collaborate with clients to address accounting requests and questions – follow up with appropriate action steps, scope, prioritization and delegation.
Develop client’s annual budget and maintain cash forecasting tools as needed to support long term planning and investment decisions
Monitor budget performance and provide insights for budget adjustments, as needed
Develop and review financial and operating metrics through use of dashboards, including KPIS
Identify variances from the budget and report significant variances to client
Analyze financial and operational data to provide real-time, meaningful recommendations and implementing actions based on findings. Identifies trends, risks, and growth opportunities
Provide actionable insights to senior leadership to drive strategic decision-making
Execute client conference calls on a regular basis to review strategy, current and future needs, as well as operational changes affecting financial results
Assist in gathering pertinent tax related information for external tax return preparation
Coordinate the provision of information to external audits for the annual audit or review
Comply with local, state, and federal government reporting requirements
Review and approve monthly and quarterly tax filings - use/sales tax, property tax returns, payroll tax returns prepared by accounting specialists
Complete special projects as requested by client