Controller
Our client, a growing digital media agency based in New York, is recruiting for an experience Controller to join their team.
As Controller, you’ll work with a special, kind, and humble group of people to impact the world by creating and delivering premium content designed to elevate human potential. If you are passionate about finance, have a strong aptitude in tax and accounting, take pride in delivering excellence, and are motivated by leadership, ownership, and personal growth, we want you to join us.
The role reports directly into the CEO with day-to-day oversight from a fractional CFO.
Responsibilities
- Oversee all day-to-day financial operations including A/P, billing, A/R, collections, employee expense management, month-end close, financial reporting, cash management, and payroll.
- Oversee a consistently timely and high-quality monthly financial close process and prepare significant portions of internal and external reporting, including deliverables essential to support investor reporting and fundraising initiatives.
- Prepare periodic consolidated financial statements in accordance with GAAP and manage the delivery of consolidated financial statements to external parties, as required.
- Responsible for overall cash management and budgeting. Develop and update forecasts to project company performance and cash position.
- Provide support to the financial planning and analysis function to contribute to accurate, high-quality budgeting, forecasting, and performance reporting capabilities.
- Maintain capitalization table management platform.
- Ensure compliance with financial, tax, and payroll regulations in a timely way; advise management on needed actions when necessary.
- Communicate effectively with executive leadership team. Present highlighted financial information and flags areas where the team may want to seek outside input and guidance.
- Lead and manage an external accounting team through all major reporting and administrative activities.
- Establish, review, update, and ensure full compliance with the fiscal management policies, procedures, and internal controls.
- Manage audits of annual financials.
- Partner with Talent and Operations on a variety of payroll and benefits administration activities, with accountability for certain employee benefits reporting and censuses.
- Analyze historical results of operations including budget to actual and year-over-year analyses.
- Support budgeting and forecasting activities. Produce medium-complexity models to understand the potential impacts of various capital allocation decisions on future performance.
- Maintain bank and vendor relationships in keeping with the company’s culture of openness, generosity, and collaboration.
- Proactively seek ways to continuously improve processes and practices that will result in easier, higher-fidelity financial reporting.
- Engage capably with financial models and private company valuation exercises to help management visualize the implications of raising capital at different junctures.
- Perform additional duties and special projects as necessary.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of progressive accounting experience with at least 1 year in a supervisory role.
- CPA, though relevant experience may be considered equivalently.
- Strong working knowledge of U.S. GAAP and internal controls.
- Proven experience with bolstering accounting systems, policies and procedures, and internal controls.
- Ability to build strong relationships with team members and executive leadership.
- Strong analytical and financial modelling skills and proven problem-solving capabilities; demonstrated ability to improve and streamline processes.
- High proficiency in Excel, with an accompanying ability to explain models concisely.
- Strong organizational skills including ability to multi-task or manage multiple priorities.
- Willingness to adjust schedule during peak periods.
- Excellent interpersonal and written and verbal communication skills.
- Complete adherence to confidentiality in respect to personal and proprietary information.
If this sounds like you then please send us your CV now!
Due to the high volume of applications, only successful candidates will be contacted.