Overview
This role strengthens the US close process by independently managing close readiness, reporting, analytics, and quality routines that make performance and issues visible.
You will combine strong accounting judgment with data, visualization, automation, and emerging AI capabilities to improve how the Controller team understands, controls, and communicates financial outcomes.
This is a remote-first opportunity for US-based employees, with the option to work in-person out of the Manhattan office.
Responsibilities
- Independently manage key close-management and close-readiness routines, including:
- calendar discipline
- dependency tracking
- issue escalation
- completion visibility
- follow-up actions
- Build and continuously improve the US Controller close reporting package, synthesizing:
- balance-sheet and P&L movements
- significant variances
- unusual activity
- open items
- accounting judgments
- control matters
- Develop repeatable analytics and visualizations to improve understanding of financial results and close quality, including identification of:
- trends and anomalies
- breaks
- aged items
- recurring adjustments
- areas requiring management attention
- Own one or more recurring accounting areas end-to-end, including:
- journal entries
- reconciliations
- substantiation
- supporting schedules
- review-ready documentation
- timely resolution of issues
- serving as flexible close capacity when priorities shift
- Strengthen close quality and accountability by designing, operating, and improving practical review routines such as:
- checklists
- evidence standards
- certifications
- issue logs
- other mechanisms that make ownership, status, and exceptions transparent
- Perform and support analytical review of account balances and financial statement movements by investigating root causes and partnering to resolve data, process, or accounting issues before they recur
- Partner with Finance Systems, Data, and business stakeholders to improve:
- source-data quality
- reporting logic
- reconciliations
- data lineage
- and to clearly define accounting/reporting requirements and validate changes meet Controller needs
- Partner with Treasury to monitor:
- debt portfolio performance
- covenant compliance
- key financing metrics
- and develop scalable analytics and reporting for timely visibility into trends, emerging risks, and potential compliance issues
- Apply automation, AI, and agentic tools directly in recurring close work to improve analysis, documentation, reconciliations, control evidence, and issue identification—while applying appropriate accounting judgment, review, governance, and auditability
- Act as a subject-matter partner for close-related automation and AI use cases by helping define requirements, validate outputs, and support adoption
- Continuously improve the close calendar, checklists, reporting package, and related close-management routines to reduce manual work and unnecessary handoffs while preserving ownership, auditability, and effective controls
- Coordinate cross-functional workstreams to resolve close issues, remediate root causes, establish clear ownership/dependencies/follow-up actions, and drive issues through sustainable resolution
Requirements
- 5+ years of progressive Accounting or Finance experience, including meaningful hands-on responsibility for month-end close, balance-sheet reconciliations, financial reporting, and analysis (experience in a scaled or rapidly evolving environment preferred)
- Strong accounting foundation and working knowledge of US GAAP, including the judgment to understand how operational activity, journal entries, account movements, and accounting decisions flow through the financial statements
- Proven ability to operate as a senior individual contributor, independently owning important workstreams, navigating ambiguity, setting an approach, coordinating dependencies, and driving work through completion with limited day-to-day oversight
- Strong analytical orientation with demonstrated ability to turn detailed accounting and financial data into useful insights, identify anomalies and root causes, and communicate the story behind financial movements
- Advanced Excel (or equivalent analytical skills), plus hands-on experience with data visualization or business-intelligence tools; comfort with larger datasets, structured data, and reporting logic strongly preferred
- Practical experience using automation and emerging AI tools to improve finance or accounting work; comfort experimenting with agentic workflows while understanding the need for human review, data controls, governance, and auditability strongly preferred
- Demonstrated controls mindset, including experience with reconciliations, review evidence, process documentation, SOX, or audit support, and experience designing or improving repeatable quality-control routines
- Ability to communicate clearly with both accounting and non-accounting audiences, including building concise reporting packages, visual summaries, and issue narratives to enable efficient review and decision-making
- Strong systems aptitude and curiosity about how accounting data is created, transformed, and consumed across ERP, reconciliation, reporting, workflow, and data environments; hands-on NetSuite experience strongly preferred; SQL or similar data-query experience is a plus
- Comfort working in a fast-moving environment with competing priorities and evolving processes, with a bias toward ownership, practical problem solving, and improvements that raise the effectiveness of the broader team
Preferred Qualifications
- Hands-on NetSuite experience
- SQL or similar data-query experience
Compensation & Benefits
- Annual base pay range: $128,000–$135,000
- Additional premium percentages may apply based on a tiered premium strategy
- Total compensation may also include other elements (including a bonus and/or commission awards, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits), subject to individualized factors
Benefits described include:
- Flexible working culture
- Incentive programs
- Unlimited PTO
- Generous paid parental leave
- Leading family support policies
- Company-sponsored 401k match
- Learning and wellness subscription stipend
- Employer-sponsored insurance for employees and dependents, with several 100% employer-covered choices available
Please note:
- Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
- If hired, employees will be in an “at-will position.”
- The employer reserves the right to modify base salary (and any other discretionary payment or compensation or benefit program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, department/team performance, and market factors.
Location
- Remote-first for US-based employees
- Option to work in-person out of the Manhattan office