Controller, Accounting Operations & FP&A
Controller, Accounting Operations & FP&A
Join a remote-first, sponsor-backed professional services business at a stage where the finance function is becoming a true growth lever. This is an internal Controller role for someone who is already strong in accounting operations and wants a broader seat across faster close, cleaner reporting, FP&A support, acquisition integration, automation, and direct partnership with senior finance and executive leadership.
The Opportunity
The company is scaling through a mix of core services growth, new offerings, and acquisition activity. The finance team needs a hands-on Controller who can keep the accounting engine accurate and dependable while helping modernize how the business closes, reports, forecasts, and integrates new lines of business.
This is not a narrow bookkeeping seat, and it is not a hands-off VP Finance role. It is ideal for a highly capable Controller who wants to stay close to the GL, own the accounting operating cadence, and build toward broader FP&A and strategic finance exposure over time.
What You Will Own
Accounting Operations
Own day-to-day accounting operations across payroll, accounts receivable, accounts payable, reconciliations, month-end close, and reporting workflows.
Lead the close process with a focus on speed, accuracy, reviewability, and repeatability.
Maintain clean financial records that support leadership reporting, board reporting, audit readiness, and future lender-related data requests.
Oversee and develop one direct report in a senior accountant / accounting specialist capacity.
Support required registrations, compliance-related finance administration, and other operational finance needs as they arise.
Reporting, FP&A, and Leadership Support
Build and improve financial reporting packages so leadership can review results earlier, identify insights faster, and make better decisions.
Support monthly variance analysis, fluctuation analysis, forecasting, budgeting, and longer-term planning exercises.
Help prepare operational finance inputs for board reporting, annual budgeting, sponsor-backed reporting, audit readiness, and valuation-related needs.
Partner with the finance leader on lender-facing data preparation if and when the company moves into lender relationships.
Translate accurate accounting outputs into useful finance insights for a scaling professional services business.
Systems, Automation, and Process Modernization
Assess the current finance and accounting tech stack and help determine what should be automated, upgraded, or replaced over time.
Improve capacity in the controller function through better processes and tools rather than simply adding headcount.
Identify opportunities to automate month-end close, reconciliations, AP workflows, reporting packages, and recurring data pulls.
Support future ERP, accounting system, forecasting tool, or related finance systems implementation work.
Acquisition Integration
Help integrate accounting operations for a recently acquired business line currently relying on informal or part-time bookkeeping support.
Create a more scalable accounting process for the acquired business, including fixed-price services revenue and related reporting.
Support acquisition-related accounting integration work such as GL alignment, reporting consistency, data cleanup, and operating cadence.
Bring practical judgment to a business where acquisition activity and integration work are expected to remain part of the finance environment.
What Makes You a Strong Fit
You have strong Controller-level experience owning accounting operations in a smaller or mid-sized business where finance and accounting responsibilities are not overly siloed.
You are comfortable being accountable for the GL, close, reporting accuracy, and accounting process discipline.
You have meaningful exposure to FP&A, forecasting, variance analysis, budgeting, or board reporting, even if your core strength is still accounting.
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