Controller

What you will do:

The Controller serves as a critical leadership role within the Finance & Accounting team at Bryant Park Consulting. This position will be responsible to own the general ledger and full close of a multi-entity group with foreign subsidiaries, build and document accounting processes and policies and scale the accounting team and processes to transaction readiness. The ideal candidate is a leader with hands-on experience and high communication skills.

Responsibilities:

• Own the full close and consolidation (monthly, quarterly, and annual)  across all three US entities and the international sub-entities in NetSuite. Build the processes to make that close fast, accurate, and repeatable; establish and hold a published close calendar with a target of a 5–7 business-day close.
• Own the general ledger, chart of accounts, revenue recognition, project costing and the NetSuite segmentation architecture (subsidiary, department, class, location, and custom segments) that makes practice, project, and client-level profitability reporting possible.
• Build accounting policies, written processes, and internal controls. Revenue recognition for a services business under ASC 606 time and materials, fixed fee, milestone, and retainer including WIP, unbilled revenue, and the integrity of the path from a consultant's time entry to recognized revenue.
• Run the external audit as the company-side owner, with a clear goal of a cleaner and faster audit each year.
  Manage international accounting and compliance: local-to-US GAAP conversion, statutory calendars, intercompany, transfer pricing execution, and multi-currency reporting.
• Support treasury and cash: daily cash, banking, the 13-week forecast, debt covenant compliance, and working capital including unbilled and WIP aging.
• Be the underlying source of truth for our operating metrics utilization, realization, effective rate, leverage, and project margin, work in partnership with FP&A, who owns the budget, forecast, and long-range model.
• Lead accounting diligence and integration on acquisitions: opening balance sheets, purchase price allocation, NetSuite subsidiary and chart of accounts conversion, ASC 805 setup, and folding new entities into the close.
• Lead, assess, develop and grow an accounting team from transactional work into technical accounting.

Qualifications:

• Professional services, consulting, or field services industry experience. Our P&L and rev rec are structured around the  billable hour. This is a hard requirement.
• Fluency in billable-hour economics: Utilization, realization, bill rate, leverage, WIP and unbilled revenue, and project-level profitability. You should be able to tell us what moves each of these and why.
• Strong hands-on NetSuite experience, ideally with multiple subsidiaries and currencies. Be prepared to walk us through configuration and reporting you built yourself.
• 10+ years of progressive accounting experience, including 3+ years as a Controller, Assistant Controller, or Accounting Director in an organization with international exposure and consolidations.
• CPA or CMA highly preferred
• You have consolidated a multi-entity group with foreign subsidiaries intercompany, eliminations, and currency translation are familiar territory.
• You have owned an audit from the company side and can describe how you made the next one easier.
• You have experience building structures, writing policies, documenting procedures, reconciliation discipline, and controls that hold.
• You operate with strong US GAAP depth, including ASC 606 as applied to services revenue, and ASC 805 for consolidations.
• You have led a team and raised its capability, not just supervised it.

Desirable:

• Public accounting foundation, ideally audit.
• Experience in an acquisitive company: diligence, purchase accounting, and post-close integration, including onboarding acquired entities into NetSuite.
• Exposure to a transaction, sponsor investment, or sell-side quality of earnings process.
• Multi-state and international tax and compliance coordination.
• NetSuite project management, SuiteProjects, or comparable PSA platform experience.
• Experience through a NetSuite implementation, subsidiary rollout, or major optimization.
   

Salary Range: $180,000 to $210,000
 
In accordance with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the approximate annual base compensation range is listed above. The actual offer, reflecting the total compensation package and benefits, will be determined by a number of factors including the applicant's experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity among our team.