🕒 3 days ago
Lead Ossium’s accounting function and team, owning financial close, reporting, audits, controls, and process improvements while partnering across the business to scale accounting systems and operations.
Controller
📅 Sep 22
Operational AccountingFinancial ReportingMonth-end CloseTeam Leadership And Development
📜 Description
- Lead day-to-day accounting operations and ensure accurate, timely financial reporting.
- Own and continuously improve the month-end close process.
- Guide and develop an accounting team of approximately 8–9 professionals.
- Strengthen accounting processes, internal controls, and operational efficiency.
- Identify and implement automation, reporting, and accounting technology improvements, including potential ERP initiatives.
- Partner with the Managing Partner and senior leadership on financial and operational priorities.
🛠️ Requirements
- Strong operational accounting and month-end close expertise
- Experience managing and developing accounting teams
- Proven success improving processes, controls, and accounting workflows
- Strong technology orientation with experience leveraging automation and accounting systems
- Excellent communication skills and executive presence
- Ability to thrive in a fast-growing, evolving organization
- Law firm experience strongly preferred
- CPA preferred
✨ Benefits
- Join a rapidly growing firm that has approximately doubled in size over the past several years
- Report directly to the Managing Partner in a highly visible leadership position
- Opportunity to modernize the accounting function through automation, technology, and process improvement
- Strong culture with significant opportunity to grow alongside the organization
- Potential long-term path to the CFO role
Full job description
GHJ Search and Staffing serves as the recruitment division of GHJ, a prominent national accounting and advisory firm. Our team provides qualified Accounting and Finance professionals on a temporary and permanent basis across a broad range of industries. GHJ’s relationship with our Global Advisory and Accounting Network provides the resources needed to better understand client’s needs, attract a higher caliber of candidates and assess candidate potential.
A rapidly growing professional services firm is seeking a Controller / Director of Finance to take ownership of its day-to-day accounting operations and help build a more scalable, technology-forward finance function. This is a high-visibility leadership opportunity for someone who combines strong operational accounting expertise with an innovative mindset and wants the ability to make a meaningful impact as the organization continues to grow.
Reporting directly to the Managing Partner, this role will lead operational accounting, oversee and improve the month-end close, and provide leadership to an accounting team of approximately 8–9 professionals. The ideal candidate will bring fresh ideas around automation, systems, controls, and process improvement rather than simply maintaining existing practices.
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