SVP, Global Controller

LevelBlue LLC

4d•$275,000 - $350,000•Hybrid

About The Position

LevelBlue is seeking a senior finance executive to lead the global controllership function, stabilize and scale accounting operations, build a public-company-ready control environment, and create the financial reporting foundation required for accelerated growth, investor transparency, and future capital markets readiness. The Senior Vice President, Global Controller will serve as the Company’s chief accounting officer equivalent and will be responsible for all global accounting operations, financial reporting, consolidation, technical accounting, accounting policy, internal controls, statutory reporting, audit readiness, and IPO readiness from a controllership perspective. This leader will report directly to the Chief Financial Officer and will partner closely with FP&A, Treasury, Tax, Legal, IT, Sales Operations, HR, Procurement, and business leadership. The role requires a hands-on transformation-oriented executive who can both operate the current environment and build the scalable processes, systems, policies, and controls needed for a global public-company finance function. The successful candidate will bring deep technical accounting expertise, proven public company and IPO readiness experience, global controllership leadership, and the ability to lead through ambiguity in a fast-moving private equity-backed environment.

Requirements

CPA required.
15+ years of progressive accounting and finance leadership experience, including senior controllership leadership in a complex global company.
Public company experience required; IPO readiness, SEC reporting, SOX implementation, or capital markets preparation experience strongly preferred.
Deep knowledge of U.S. GAAP, technical accounting, financial reporting, consolidation, internal controls, and audit requirements.
Experience leading global accounting teams across multiple geographies, legal entities, currencies, and business models.
Demonstrated experience transforming, scaling, or stabilizing accounting functions in high-growth, acquisitive, carve-out, or private equity-backed environments.
Proven ability to lead close acceleration, accounting process standardization, control remediation, and finance systems transformation.
Experience partnering with external auditors, audit committees, boards, executive teams, and external advisors.
Strong understanding of ERP systems, consolidation tools, account reconciliation tools, close management tools, and finance data architecture.
Ability to operate at both strategic and detailed levels, including willingness to dive into complex accounting, systems, process, and organizational issues when needed.

Nice To Haves

Big 4 public accounting foundation preferred.
Cybersecurity, software, SaaS, managed services, technology, telecommunications, or recurring revenue business model experience preferred.
Experience with carve-outs, transition services agreements, acquisition integration, and complex post-merger finance environments preferred.
Experience in private equity-backed companies or companies preparing for IPO preferred.
Experience with NetSuite or multi-ERP consolidation environments preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead the global controllership organization, including corporate accounting, regional accounting, consolidation, technical accounting, revenue accounting, accounts payable, accounts receivable accounting, payroll accounting, statutory accounting, and related shared service activities.
Establish a clear global controllership operating model with defined roles, responsibilities, ownership, escalation paths, and service expectations across corporate, regional, and shared service teams.
Build a scalable accounting organization capable of supporting a global cybersecurity business with multiple business lines, legal entities, geographies, billing models, and acquisition histories.
Serve as a senior finance leader and trusted advisor to the CFO, CEO, executive leadership team, audit committee, board, and external advisors on accounting, reporting, controls, and financial infrastructure matters.
Lead the controllership workstream for IPO readiness, including public-company financial reporting requirements, SEC reporting readiness, quarterly close discipline, SOX readiness, audit committee reporting, technical accounting governance, and control environment maturation.
Develop and execute a roadmap to transition the Company from a private-company accounting environment to a public-company-ready finance function within the targeted IPO preparation timeline.
Partner with Legal, FP&A, Tax, Treasury, HR, and external advisors to prepare for S-1 readiness, public-company disclosure requirements, segment reporting, equity compensation accounting, related-party disclosures, and other capital markets requirements.
Establish the accounting policies, close calendar, disclosure controls, documentation standards, and review protocols required for external reporting rigor.
Own the global monthly, quarterly, and annual close process, including close calendar governance, journal entry review, account reconciliations, intercompany accounting, consolidation, flux analysis, and management reporting support.
Drive meaningful acceleration of the close process while improving accuracy, accountability, transparency, and auditability.
Standardize close processes across legacy businesses, including LevelBlue, Trustwave, Cybereason, Alert Logic, and other acquired or related entities.
Lead global consolidation and reporting across multiple legal entities, currencies, systems, and geographies.
Improve the quality, timeliness, and reliability of financial statements and supporting schedules used by management, the board, lenders, investors, auditors, and external stakeholders.
Own technical accounting conclusions and accounting policy development across the Company.
Lead accounting assessment and documentation for complex areas including revenue recognition, multiple-element arrangements, software and SaaS accounting, commissions, stock-based compensation, debt, leases, business combinations, impairments, intercompany transactions, foreign currency, and restructuring activities.
Develop and maintain a comprehensive global accounting policy manual aligned with U.S. GAAP and scalable for public-company reporting expectations.
Establish a formal technical accounting governance process, including issue identification, research, memo preparation, review, approval, and ongoing policy compliance.
Partner with commercial, legal, deal desk, sales operations, procurement, and FP&A teams to ensure new contracts, products, pricing structures, and transactions are evaluated appropriately from an accounting perspective.
Provide executive oversight of revenue accounting and related controls across complex cybersecurity products, services, managed services, professional services, and recurring revenue arrangements.
Partner with Sales Operations, Billing, IT, FP&A, and business leaders to strengthen contract-to-cash, billing, revenue recognition, customer master data, SKU/product mapping, and revenue reporting processes.
Improve visibility, documentation, and controls over revenue streams that currently involve manual processes, multiple systems, legacy AT&T processes, acquired company systems, and evolving data architecture.
Ensure the revenue accounting function is capable of supporting audit, investor reporting, IPO readiness, and future scale.
Own the relationship with external auditors for accounting, audit, and financial reporting matters.
Lead the annual audit process and drive remediation of audit findings, control gaps, documentation gaps, and process deficiencies.
Build a SOX-ready internal control environment, including process documentation, risk and control matrices, control design, control owner accountability, evidence standards, and remediation tracking.
Partner with Internal Audit, Legal, IT, HR, Procurement, and business process owners to implement scalable controls across finance and key upstream processes.
Create a culture of accountability, documentation, control consciousness, and continuous improvement across the finance organization.
Partner with Finance Transformation, IT, FP&A, and business leadership to define and execute the accounting systems roadmap, including ERP consolidation, consolidation tools, close management tools, account reconciliation tools, billing systems, procurement systems, and data architecture.
Serve as the controllership business owner for finance systems design, chart of accounts governance, legal entity structure, reporting dimensions, close automation, intercompany automation, and financial data integrity.
Lead accounting process standardization and automation across record-to-report, procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, treasury accounting, payroll accounting, and financial reporting.
Ensure system design decisions support public-company reporting, auditability, scalability, control requirements, and management reporting needs.
Support accounting and reporting aspects of acquisitions, integrations, purchase accounting, opening balance sheets, and post-close finance integration.
Lead controllership integration efforts across acquired businesses to standardize accounting policies, close processes, systems, reporting, and controls.
Partner with Tax, Legal, Treasury, and FP&A to rationalize legal entities, intercompany arrangements, statutory reporting requirements, and global compliance obligations.
Ensure legacy businesses are integrated into a common controllership model without sacrificing financial control or reporting quality.
Assess, design, and build the global controllership organization needed for the Company’s next stage of growth.
Recruit, develop, and retain high-caliber accounting, reporting, and technical accounting talent.
Create a high-performance culture characterized by urgency, ownership, collaboration, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
Provide clear leadership, coaching, structure, and prioritization to teams operating through significant change, resource constraints, and integration complexity.
Develop succession plans and deepen organizational bench strength across corporate accounting, regional accounting, shared services, and technical accounting.