Controller

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

📋 Description

• Oversee hands-on accounting and finance operations for the law firm and its associated management-services entity (MSO).

• Ensure the integrity of the general ledger, manage monthly closings, reconciliations, financial statements, cash forecasting, and daily finance activities.

• Develop, document, implement, and test internal accounting controls.

• Manage the annual budgeting process, departmental input schedules, rolling forecasts, and budget-to-actual reporting.

• Maintain accounting records that are ready for compliance and collaborate with payroll, tax, audit, and other advisors.

• Conduct and review monthly reconciliations for significant balance-sheet accounts and address any reconciling items.

• Prepare monthly financial statements and partner-ready reports that include variance explanations, assumptions, balances, and risks.

• Create and maintain 13-week cash forecasts along with longer-term liquidity projections.

• Maintain accounting records at the entity level and ensure consolidated management reporting, including intercompany balances and allocations.

• Account for legal-service revenue, reimbursable costs, government filing fees, pass-through client charges, and trust/IOLTA balances.

• Manage AR aging, collections reporting, AP aging, payment controls, billing-to-cash reconciliations, and reviews of outstanding payments.

• Supervise the monthly close calendar, assign responsibilities for preparers and reviewers, complete reconciliations and adjusting entries, and ensure timely delivery of statements.

• Establish, monitor, and enforce financial policies and procedures.

• Provide financial information support to management, attorneys, and managing partners.

• Generate reports that assist senior leadership and attorneys in understanding the company’s financial position.

• Maintain documented procedures and a register of deliverables, owners, due dates, dependencies, and unresolved issues.

• Manage the accounting workstream for financial systems implementations, including workflow design, master-data validation, integrations, testing, reconciliation, training, issue logs, and post-go-live controls.

• Oversee the general ledger, journal entries, accruals, account classifications, period-end adjustments, and ensure the accuracy and completeness of accounting records.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, or a related field.

• Minimum of 7 years of progressive accounting experience.

• At least 3 recent years in a hands-on Controller or Accounting Manager position with direct responsibility for close, general ledger, reconciliations, financial statements, and staff oversight.

• Advanced proficiency in Excel, including multi-sheet financial models, linked schedules, lookup functions, pivot tables, formula auditing, and reconciling model outputs to source systems.

• Proven ownership of accounting process improvements and accounting system implementation/testing.

• Demonstrated hands-on proficiency with QuickBooks Online, including bank reconciliations, journal entries, account mapping, AR/AP, close processes, and reporting.

• Required recent experience in professional-services accounting.

• Strong preference for law firm accounting experience, including time and billing, WIP, realization, revenue recognition, reimbursable versus pass-through amounts, and government filing fees.

• Familiarity with trust/IOLTA accounting and multi-entity/MSO structures is highly preferred.

• Understanding of relevant laws and regulations.

• Knowledge of economic principles, financial markets, and banking.

• Proficiency in financial data analysis and reporting.

• Proven ability to perform and supervise payroll, accounts payable, accounts receivable, bank and credit card reconciliations, account analyses, and cash forecasting.

• Capability to adhere to a documented close calendar, prioritize competing deliverables, clearly communicate incomplete work or unverified assumptions, and escalate deadline or accuracy risks proactively.

• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional accounting and systems projects with detailed workplans, assigned owners, milestones, testing evidence, and documented handoffs.

• Must be able to translate financial information into clear business language for individuals at all levels.

• Strong technical accounting judgment, attention to detail, reconciliation discipline, and the ability to explain the distinctions between net income, cash flow, and available liquidity.

• Must have access to a quiet and confidential workspace.

• Availability for at least 6 hours in US CT time between 8 AM and 5 PM CT is required.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote, global position.

• Flexible work hours.

• Occasional after-hours and weekend work may be necessary.

• Provision of personal computing equipment, telephone, multi-functioning printer, and calculator.

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to assist individuals with disabilities in performing essential job functions.