Assistant Controller

Job Description

The Assistant Controller will serve as a senior leader within the Accounting organization, responsible for the integrity of the company’s balance sheet, financial statements, and overall control environment. This role will oversee financial close, reporting, tax compliance, audit coordination, and continuous strengthening of accounting operations.

In parallel, the Assistant Controller will play a central role in modernizing and scaling the accounting function - leading the development of a firm-wide controls catalogue and serving as the Accounting & Tax lead in the ERP transformation. This individual will help design future-state processes, implement strong governance frameworks, and build scalable infrastructure to support continued growth.

This position requires a technically strong accounting leader with supervisory experience, a deep understanding of internal controls, and demonstrated experience leading process and system transformations.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Reporting & Close Leadership

• Own the integrity, accuracy, and completeness of the company’s balance sheet and financial statements.
• Lead the monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes, ensuring timely and accurate reporting.
• Review and approve journal entries, reconciliations, and financial statement analyses.
• Ensure compliance with US GAAP (or applicable accounting standards).
• Drive continuous improvement in close cycle efficiency, documentation quality, and accountability.

Balance Sheet & Control Ownership

• Establish and maintain a robust internal control framework over financial reporting.
• Develop and implement a firm-wide controls catalogue, clearly documenting control objectives, ownership, frequency, and evidence standards.
• Oversee balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring timely resolution of reconciling items and clear audit trails.
• Design and standardize reconciliation and review procedures across the organization.
• Strengthen segregation of duties, approval workflows, and system-based controls within the ERP environment.

ERP Transformation & Accounting Modernization

• Serve as Accounting & Tax lead for ERP implementation, ensuring financial reporting, consolidation, tax, and close requirements are fully captured and executed.
• Redesign accounting processes to align with future-state ERP capabilities and automation opportunities.
• Partner with Finance Excellence, IT, and external implementation partners to define system requirements, chart of accounts structure, reporting hierarchies, and control configurations.
• Oversee user acceptance testing (UAT), data migration validation, and post-go-live stabilization for accounting functions.
• Identify and implement automation opportunities to reduce manual journal entries and spreadsheet dependency.

Audit & Compliance

• Serve as primary liaison to external auditors, coordinating annual audits and quarterly reviews.
• Lead preparation of audit schedules, technical accounting memos, and financial disclosures.
• Maintain accounting policies and ensure compliance with regulatory and statutory requirements.
• Proactively identify and remediate control gaps or audit findings.

Tax Oversight

• Oversee income tax, indirect tax, and other regulatory filings in partnership with external advisors.
• Ensure accurate preparation of tax provisions and related disclosures.
• Support tax planning initiatives and ensure tax compliance processes are properly embedded within the ERP and control framework.
• Strengthen documentation and controls around tax-sensitive accounts and processes.

Shared Services & Process Optimization

• Lead the design, implementation, or optimization of shared service center models for transactional accounting (AP, AR, GL).
• Establish SLAs, governance structures, KPIs, and escalation protocols for shared services operations.
• Standardize processes to improve scalability, efficiency, and internal control consistency across locations.
• Drive documentation of end-to-end accounting workflows to reduce key-person risk.

Team Leadership & Development

• Supervise, mentor, and develop accounting team members, fostering a high-performance and accountable culture.
• Ensure cross-training, succession planning, and clear ownership of responsibilities.
• Promote operational discipline, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance; CPA required (or strongly preferred).
• 10+ years of progressive accounting experience, including supervisory responsibilities.
• Deep technical accounting knowledge and strong understanding of US GAAP (or applicable standards).
• Proven experience leading monthly close and financial statement preparation.
• Demonstrated experience building or enhancing internal control frameworks and documentation.
• Experience developing controls catalogues or structured control matrices (SOX experience preferred if applicable).
• Direct experience supporting or leading ERP implementations for accounting functions.
• Experience working with or establishing shared service center models.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and project management skills.
• Ability to lead through transformation while maintaining operational excellence.

Success in this Role Looks Like

• Accurate, timely financial statements with strong balance sheet integrity and minimal audit adjustments.
• A clearly defined and implemented firm-wide controls catalogue with strong ownership and documentation.
• Successful ERP implementation for Accounting & Tax with improved automation and control strength.
• Reduced close timelines and improved reconciliation discipline.
• Clean audits with minimal deficiencies.
• A scalable shared services structure supporting growth and efficiency.
• A strong, well-developed accounting team with clear accountability and ownership.

All offers and/or employment contracts are contingent upon the successful completion of the Firm’s pre-employment screening process. This process may include verifying the candidate’s identity, confirming legal authorization to work in the offered position's location, and conducting a comprehensive background check, where permitted by local regulations.