Controller Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• 5+ years of accounting or controller experience.
• Strong QuickBooks Online experience is required.
• Experience managing multiple entities, tax IDs, or locations.
• Strong understanding of accrual accounting principles.
• Strong Excel and/or Google Sheets skills.
• Experience with financial reporting, reconciliations, AP oversight, operational accounting, and internal controls.
• Ability to work directly with ownership and senior leadership.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-moving, evolving company environment.
• Must be local to Northern New Jersey, Manhattan, or surrounding areas.
• Must be willing to work hybrid from Englewood, NJ.

Nice To Haves

• Multi-location company experience.
• Retail, franchise, service business, hospitality, construction, logistics, or other operationally complex environments.
• Experience building reporting infrastructure.
• Experience improving accounting systems and financial controls.
• Experience creating location-level financial reporting.
• Experience supervising accounting support staff.

Responsibilities

• Manage accounting operations across multiple companies, locations, and tax IDs.
• Maintain intercompany reconciliations and entity-level accuracy.
• Standardize accounting procedures across entities.
• Ensure consistency in coding, reporting, and financial processes.
• Manage and improve QuickBooks Online structure, including chart of accounts, classes, locations, vendor setup, and reporting categories.
• Improve financial visibility across departments and locations.
• Identify and correct accounting inconsistencies and reporting gaps.
• Produce monthly financial reporting packages.
• Develop entity-level and location-level P&Ls.
• Prepare consolidated financial reporting for leadership.
• Track and analyze revenue, labor, occupancy costs, vendor spend, operating expenses, contribution margin, and profitability trends.
• Build reporting that helps leadership identify operational issues quickly.
• Improve AP workflows and approval processes.
• Monitor vendor balances, payment timing, and aging reports.
• Prevent duplicate payments and unauthorized spending.
• Ensure bills are properly coded, approved, and documented.
• Improve vendor accountability and payment organization.
• Enforce receipt submission and expense coding requirements.
• Monitor recurring subscriptions, unusual spending patterns, and policy violations.
• Improve visibility into company-wide spending.
• Assist with implementation of stronger expense controls and approval workflows.
• Oversee reconciliations for bank accounts, credit cards, payroll accounts, liabilities, clearing accounts, and loans.
• Review balance sheet activity regularly and resolve unsupported balances.
• Improve overall accounting accuracy and cleanliness.
• Assist leadership with cash flow visibility and reporting.
• Monitor upcoming obligations including payroll, rent, vendor payments, and major recurring expenses.
• Support better financial planning and operational decision-making.
• Build scalable accounting and reporting processes.
• Create enforceable workflows and documentation.
• Reduce operational inefficiencies and financial surprises.
• Improve accountability across financial operations.
• Help transition the company from reactive accounting to controlled financial management.
• Coordinate with accounting support staff, AP personnel, external vendors, and operational leadership.
• Improve accountability and communication between accounting and operations.
• Assist with training and process implementation where needed.

Benefits

• accountability
• operational thinking
• process discipline
• transparency
• continuous improvement