Manager, Controller Consultant

Overview

Full-time role providing Controller-level expertise to lead and support client-facing accounting and financial advisory engagements.

Depending on the engagement, the Manager may lead work directly or serve as a key member of a broader project team. Responsibilities span planning through completion and include delivering accurate, high-quality work on time and within budget.

Responsibilities

• Lead Controller and financial advisory engagements from planning through completion, accountable for deliverables, deadlines, quality, and client satisfaction.
• Provide Controller-level support across financial reporting, general ledger oversight, close processes, reconciliations, budgeting, forecasting, cash management, and audit preparation.
• Assess complex accounting and financial issues, develop practical solutions, and drive issues through resolution.
• Build and manage project plans: set expectations and deadlines, assign responsibilities, and follow up to keep work on track.
• Coordinate client personnel and internal consulting teams to gather information, resolve issues, and complete deliverables.
• Manage multiple engagements and competing priorities while maintaining responsiveness and meeting commitments.
• Delegate work to Consultants and Senior Consultants while remaining accountable for the quality and timeliness of engagement deliverables.
• Review financial information and team work product; identify issues and communicate findings and actionable recommendations.
• Anticipate roadblocks, escalate issues when appropriate, and take ownership of moving engagements to completion.
• Build productive client relationships and communicate directly about expectations, deadlines, responsibilities, and outstanding needs.
• Identify opportunities to improve clients’ accounting processes, financial reporting, internal controls, and finance operations.
• Prepare clear, polished, client-ready reports, analyses, and presentations.
• Support the development of team members and contribute to the growth of financial advisory services.

Requirements (Required Qualifications)

• Progressive accounting experience, including demonstrated responsibilities at the Controller level.
• Strong technical accounting knowledge and judgment to address complex or unfamiliar accounting issues.
• Experience with financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, reconciliations, and audit preparation.
• Demonstrated project management skills, including organizing complex work, managing dependencies, and keeping multiple stakeholders accountable to deadlines.
• Experience managing client relationships, establishing expectations, and communicating effectively with client leadership.
• Ability to lead internal project teams and coordinate client teams toward shared deliverables and outcomes.
• Ability to manage multiple engagements, shifting priorities, and tight deadlines while maintaining quality and follow-through.
• Strong analytical, critical-thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and confidence working with complex financial data.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in healthcare, nonprofit organizations, or Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs).
• Experience in consulting or outsourced accounting.

Location

Nationwide client engagements (work supported across a national client base).