Controller

True-Classic

Calabasas (CA)

Hybrid

USD 180,000 - 225,000

Full time

12 days ago

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Job summary

True Classic is seeking a Controller to own the global controllership across accounting, treasury, tax and compliance. You will ensure integrity of financial statements, drive the close, and build systems, controls and a team to scale with growth.

You will report to the CFO and lead an accounting organization including an Assistant Controller, payables, payroll, staff accountants and offshore partners, with a hybrid in-office arrangement based in Calabasas.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance, CPA preferred.
10+ years of progressive accounting and controllership experience.
Deep inventory and cost accounting expertise with standard vs. actual analysis.
Duties and trade accounting including duty deferral and refund exposure.
Order to cash ownership across marketplaces and wholesale.
Strong US GAAP technical accounting knowledge.
Hands on NetSuite expertise and systems collaboration.
Experience leading treasury, payables, receivables and payroll at scale.
Use of AI in accounting workflows with accuracy controls.
Hybrid team building across onshore and offshore resources.

Responsibilities

Own the integrity, accuracy and timeliness of financial statements across entities.
Close monthly, quarterly and annual cycles with clear owners.
Ensure US GAAP compliance and local statutory requirements.
Produce detailed channel P&L including product cost and overhead.
Own inventory costing, reserves and cycle counts.
Manage revenue recognition across channels (ASC 606).
Oversee treasury, cash management and funding relationships.
Lead payables, receivables, payroll and equity accounting.
Oversee tax, audit, compliance and statutory filings.
Drive system controls, automation and AI integration.

Skills

Leadership

Financial accounting

US GAAP knowledge

Treasury & cash management

Inventory & cost accounting

Revenue recognition (ASC 606)

NetSuite expertise

Automation & AI in accounting

Hybrid team leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance

CPA strongly preferred

Tools

NetSuite ERP

Job description

True Classic is hiring a Controller to own our global controllership function across accounting, treasury, tax and compliance. You will own the integrity of our financial statements, close the books accurately and on time, and build the systems, controls and team that let a fast growing omnichannel business scale without losing command of its numbers.

All of True Classic’s roles are global and omni-channel, leading designated areas of accountability across all product categories, countries, and sales and marketing channels. This role will have impact across DTC, retail, wholesale, marketplaces, and emerging channels, ensuring strategic alignment and executional rigor across the enterprise.

You will report to the CFO and lead the accounting organization, including an Assistant Controller, the payables and payroll functions, staff accountants and our offshore accounting partners.

Areas of Accountability

Financial Close and Reporting

Own the integrity, accuracy and timeliness of financial statements across all entities and channels.
Run the monthly, quarterly and annual close on a published calendar with a named owner for every task, and compress the close cycle over time.
Maintain full compliance with US GAAP and local statutory requirements in every jurisdiction we operate in.
Produce channel level profit and loss at real detail, down through product cost, duties, fulfillment and capitalized overhead.
Partner with financial planning and analysis so actuals and forecast run off one set of numbers.

Inventory and Cost Accounting

Own what our product costs and what our inventory is worth. Weighted average costing in NetSuite, landed cost across freight, duty and brokerage, and standard versus actual variance analysis.
Set and defend reserve policy for obsolescence, shrink and markdown exposure.
Own the accounting through a shift from FOB plus inbound freight to delivered duty paid terms, including the period where both bases run at once.
Reconcile perpetual inventory to physical counts and warehouse systems to the general ledger across our distribution centers, third party logistics partners, marketplace fulfillment centers, retail stores and international partners.
Set cycle count cadence and the monthly inventory close checklist with the operations and warehousing teams.

Revenue Accounting and Order to Cash

Ensure revenue is recognized correctly across every channel under ASC 606.
Tie every processor and marketplace settlement back to the bank at the transaction level, on a repeatable monthly process.
Own the policies behind wholesale allowances, markdown participation, spoils, chargebacks, returns reserves, gift cards and loyalty.
Own consignment arrangements and variable consideration with our wholesale and club partners.
Own the reconciliation between ecommerce platforms, point of sale, marketplace settlement files, merchant of record arrangements for international, and the general ledger.

Treasury and Cash Management

Own global cash management: daily positioning, liquidity, intercompany funding and banking relationships.
Own the weekly cash forecast and the analysis behind it.
Own the borrowing base certificate and the lender reporting package, delivered accurately and on schedule.
Own merchant accounts, payment platforms and card programs.
Drive working capital and capital efficiency alongside the CFO.

Payables, Receivables and Payroll

Own procure to pay end to end: vendor master data, terms, approval workflow and exception based review, run from a single platform.
Own receivables, credit control, aging and proactive collections across wholesale and retail.
Own payroll accounting, equity accounting and employee expense reimbursement, and keep payroll tax registration and remittance current in every state we operate in.
Keep data integrity between the human resources platform, the ERP and payroll.

Tax, Audit and Compliance

Own sales tax, income tax and international tax filings, accurate and on time.
Own duties and tariffs on everything we import, including deferral, drawback and refund exposure.
Run the annual audit and statutory filings, and manage the relationships with auditors, tax advisors and consultants.
Keep every legal entity registered, filed and in good standing.
Own cap table accounting: equity grant issuance, vesting reconciliation, 83(b) filings and board resolution documentation.

Systems, Controls and Automation

Serve as the accounting owner of NetSuite and every integration feeding it.
Establish internal controls, reconciliations and audit ready documentation, and prove they work.
Drive automation and standardization across the accounting stack rather than adding headcount to manual work.
Deploy AI inside the accounting workflow and own the accuracy controls around it.

Team Leadership

Lead, mentor and up-level the accounting team.
Structure the function for the next stage of the business across full time, hybrid and offshore resources.
Build a culture of ownership, accuracy and continuous improvement, where the team understands the numbers rather than producing them.
Partner across supply chain, commercial, technology and people so accounting shapes how the operation runs, not just how it is reported.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance. CPA strongly preferred.
10+ years of progressive accounting and controllership experience, with recent experience running a full function in consumer products, retail or ecommerce.
Deep inventory and cost accounting expertise. Weighted average costing, landed cost across freight, duty and brokerage, reserves, shrink and cycle counts.
Working command of duties and trade accounting, including duty deferral, drawback and refund exposure, and the difference between delivered duty paid and FOB plus inbound freight. Foreign trade zones or bonded inventory experience is a strong advantage.
Proven order to cash ownership across marketplaces and wholesale, including settlement reconciliation and EDI customers.
Deep technical accounting under US GAAP: revenue recognition, consolidations, intercompany and multi entity reporting.
Hands on NetSuite expertise. You have implemented, rebuilt or materially improved it, and you can hold your own with a systems team.
Proven experience leading treasury, payables, receivables, payroll and general ledger at scale.
Demonstrated use of AI in accounting workflows, with a clear method for maintaining accuracy.
Experience building and managing hybrid teams across onshore and offshore resources.

Preferred Qualifications

Public accounting foundation combined with an operating record in industry.
Systems thinker with a bias toward automation, standardisation and scale.
Deep understanding of omnichannel dynamics across ecommerce, marketplace, retail and wholesale.
Comfortable in a high growth environment where the process is still being built, and energized by fixing it.
Strong communicator who can bridge accounting to the rest of the business.

Workplace Arrangement

This role is hybrid (3x week in office) based in Calabasas, CA.

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