Vice President, Global Controller

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

📋 Description

• Oversee Harbor’s global accounting, financial reporting, and controllership functions across various regions and entities.

• Ensure financial outcomes are precise, timely, well-supported, and valuable for leadership decision-making.

• Manage global close governance, which includes close calendars, reporting deliverables, reconciliations, review standards, and resolution of issues.

• Maintain and enhance accounting policies, reporting practices, and documentation to ensure consistency throughout the global business.

• Provide expertise on intricate accounting issues, such as revenue recognition, accruals, commissions, leases, intercompany transactions, acquisitions, and other notable transactions.

• Continuously strengthen scalable controls across essential accounting and reporting processes.

• Promote a consistent methodology for documentation, approvals, reconciliations, reviews, and audit support.

• Collaborate with external auditors and advisors regarding accounting, reporting, controls, and technical accounting matters.

• Work together with external tax advisors to ensure compliance with relevant federal, state, local, and international tax regulations while identifying opportunities to mitigate tax exposure and enhance tax efficiency.

• Ensure the organization is thoroughly prepared for audit and compliance demands through proactive planning and robust underlying support.

• Balance control discipline with a pragmatic, business-focused approach that encourages efficiency and collaboration.

• Collaborate with Finance leaders and regional teams to ensure accounting activities are effectively coordinated across close, reporting, accounts receivable, accounts payable, billing, payroll accounting, intercompany, and statutory obligations.

• Identify opportunities for process simplification, improved handoffs, reduced manual tasks, and increased consistency across teams and locations.

• Support enhancements in systems, processes, and reporting that make Finance more efficient, trustworthy, and scalable.

• Lead and optimize accounting processes within NetSuite, Harbor’s current ERP system, ensuring effective utilization of system capabilities, data integrity, and scalable reporting processes.

• Mentor, coach, and develop members of the accounting and financial reporting teams across functions and regions.

• Build strong relationships within Finance and the broader business, fostering trust through responsiveness, accuracy, sound judgment, and effective problem-solving.

• Cultivate a supportive, collaborative, and accountable team culture.

• Assist with M&A diligence and integration efforts, including alignment of accounting policies, opening balance sheets, systems integration, close process integration, intercompany setup, and control considerations.

• Support acquisition integration efforts, including alignment of accounting processes, ERP/reporting integration, opening balance sheet review, purchase accounting support, and implementation of Harbor’s financial controls and reporting standards.

• Translate accounting, controls, and reporting issues into clear, actionable recommendations for Finance and business leaders.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience in accounting, financial reporting, and controllership within a global, multi-entity organization.

• Proven experience leading financial reporting, close governance, audits, reconciliations, accounting policy, controls, and accounting operations.

• Strong technical accounting expertise and the ability to assess and document complex accounting situations.

• Demonstrated success in leading, developing, and organizing accounting or financial reporting teams.

• Solid understanding of ERP systems, accounting data flows, close management, reporting processes, and internal controls.

• Exceptional judgment, attention to detail, and the ability to balance technical precision with business requirements.

• Collaborative leadership approach with the capacity to influence through partnership, clarity, and trust.

• Outstanding communication skills with the ability to collaborate with senior Finance leaders, auditors, external advisors, systems teams, and cross-functional stakeholders.

• Professional accounting credentials, such as CPA, CA, ACCA, or equivalent experience.

• Experience in a private equity-backed, acquisitive, SaaS, professional services, or global business setting (preferred).

• Familiarity with M&A diligence and integration processes (preferred).

• Experience with US, Canadian, and UK accounting, statutory reporting, or multi-jurisdictional reporting environments (preferred).

• Proven ability to assist a Finance function in scaling through enhanced processes, systems, controls, and team development (preferred).

• Experience with NetSuite is highly preferred; capability to leverage an existing ERP environment to improve accounting operations, reporting, controls, and scalability (preferred).

🏝️ Benefits

• Options for remote work.