Controller, Americas

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Connecticut.

📋 Description

• Oversee the monthly, quarterly, and annual closing processes for all entities in the Americas, ensuring precision and punctuality.

• Enhance and maintain internal controls to guarantee the accuracy, completeness, and integrity of financial information.

• Lead and nurture the accounting team by providing guidance, training, and mentorship.

• Ensure that account reconciliations, journal entries, and variance analyses are completed accurately and on time.

• Manage external audit processes, including the preparation of documentation and coordination with auditors.

• Optimize month-end closing procedures to enhance accuracy and decrease cycle time.

• Collaborate closely with the FP&A team to assist with variance analysis, supplying accounting insights and timely responses to inquiries.

• Offer accounting guidance to business partners regarding accounting policies and related interpretations.

• Direct the monthly, quarterly, and annual global consolidation process for all subsidiaries and entities.

• Prepare and review consolidated financial statements and reports in accordance with US GAAP.

• Ensure the accuracy and completeness of intercompany eliminations and adjustments for foreign currency translations.

• Collaborate with regional accounting teams and global shared services teams to guarantee timely submission of subsidiary financial statements.

• Create management, debt, and board-level financial reporting packages on a monthly and quarterly basis.

• Contribute to system implementations, upgrades, and integrations related to global processes for consistency worldwide.

• Serve as a strategic partner to global and regional business leaders.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field; CPA or MBA is preferred.

• Over 10 years of experience in controllership, consolidations, and financial analytics, preferably within professional services or market research.

• Strong understanding of US GAAP accounting standards.

• Experience with global ERP and consolidation platforms.

• Exceptional analytical, communication, and leadership abilities.

• Demonstrated capacity to thrive in a global, multi-entity environment with complex structures.

🏝️ Benefits

• Discretionary incentive program

• Comprehensive range of medical benefits