Controller

SolomonEdwards; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K

Medical benefits

Profit sharing

Cash balance plans

Job summary

CFO’s Domain, a SolomonEdwards Company, is seeking a skilled Controller to join our interim consulting practice in Los Angeles. You will lead monthly, quarterly, and year-end closes, ensure US GAAP compliance, and drive accurate financial reporting for diverse clients.

In this role you will partner with FP&A, manage journal entries, reconciliations, and internal controls, and support audits while optimizing close processes and reporting quality to deliver actionable insights for executive

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance or related field.
• 8+ years progressive accounting, audit, or controllership experience.
• Strong understanding of US GAAP and monthly close processes.
• Experience with revenue accounting and contract terms preferred.
• ERP/financial systems experience required; advanced Excel skills.
• Ability to partner with FP&A, Tax, IT and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead monthly, quarterly, and year-end close activities in US GAAP.
• Oversee journal entries, accruals, reconciliations, and variance analysis.
• Review financial results for accuracy and proper classification.
• Support management reporting packages and executive-level analysis.
• Partner with FP&A to align actuals, forecasts, and reporting outputs.
• Support revenue accounting activities including billing and deferrals.
• Ensure proper recording of revenue/expense per policies and contracts.
• Oversee or support AP/AR, billing, collections, and vendor activity.
• Help with audit readiness, PBC schedules, and documentation.
• Strengthen policies, close procedures, controls, and approvals.
• Identify opportunities to improve close efficiency and data integrity.
• Collaborate with Finance, Revenue Ops, Sales Ops, Legal, Tax, IT, and business teams.
• Support process improvement, systems clean-up, and data-quality initiatives.
• Assist with ad hoc projects related to financial reporting and controls.
• Provide clear updates to leadership on close status and risks.

Skills

US GAAP knowledge

Monthly close process

Financial reporting

Internal controls

Excel proficiency

Analytical skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance/Business

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

CFO’s Domain, a SolomonEdwards Company, is a national accounting & finance consulting and recruiting organization serving CFOs and their stakeholders. Our consultants are among the best practitioners in the marketplace, serving clients across a diverse range of industries and stages of growth. Our consultants serve clients with mission critical deliverables when they are experiencing capacity or capability constraints. Our consultants receive benefits, competitive compensation, gain access to the full breadth of our recruiting capabilities and are introduced to roles that are accretive to their personal and professional growth.

We are searching for a highly skilled Controller to be a part of our interim consulting practice. Benefits of working for CFO’s Domain include:

• Diverse project experience in across industry sector, company size, and geography
• Supercharge your personal and professional growth
• Rapidly expand your network
• Avoid company politics while focusing on solving interesting problems
• Action oriented role focused on business impact
• 401K, medical benefits
• Profit Sharing and Cash Balance Plans

Please find a sampling of the type of work we do below:

CONTROLLER RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead monthly, quarterly, and year-end close activities, ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting in accordance with U.S. GAAP.
• Oversee journal entries, accruals, account reconciliations, balance sheet reviews, variance analysis, and supporting schedules.
• Review financial results for completeness, accuracy, proper classification, and alignment with underlying business activity.
• Support preparation of management reporting packages, financial statement schedules, internal reporting deliverables, and executive-level analysis.
• Partner with FP&A to align actual results, forecasts, variance commentary, reporting outputs, and business performance explanations.
• Support revenue accounting activities, including customer arrangements, billing activity, deferred revenue, reserves, contract review, commissions, and related reporting.
• Help ensure revenue and expense activity is properly recorded, supported, and aligned with contract terms, accounting policies, and applicable guidance.
• Oversee or support accounts payable, accounts receivable, billing, collections, vendor activity, customer activity, and other operational accounting workflows as needed.
• Support audit readiness, including PBC schedules, auditor requests, reconciliations, account analyses, control evidence, and documentation of accounting conclusions.
• Strengthen accounting policies, close procedures, review processes, internal controls, approval workflows, and documentation standards.
• Identify opportunities to improve close efficiency, reporting accuracy, reconciliation quality, data integrity, and process ownership.
• Partner cross-functionally with Finance, Revenue Operations, Sales Operations, Legal, Tax, IT, and business teams to resolve accounting and reporting issues.
• Support process improvement, systems clean-up, reporting enhancements, and accounting data-quality initiatives.
• Assist with ad hoc projects related to financial reporting, technical accounting, operational accounting, audit support, controls, and close transformation.
• Provide clear updates to leadership on close status, accounting risks, audit readiness, reporting issues, and recommended next steps.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field required.
• 8+ years of progressive accounting, audit, financial reporting, or controllership experience.
• Prior experience at the Controller, Assistant Controller, Senior Accounting Manager, or equivalent accounting leadership level preferred.
• Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP, monthly close, accrual accounting, reconciliations, financial reporting, and internal controls.
• Experience in a public company, complex private company, technology-enabled business, information services company, analytics business, recurring revenue environment, or similarly complex commercial organization preferred.
• Experience with revenue accounting, billing, deferred revenue, reserves, customer arrangements, commissions, AR, or other operational accounting workflows preferred.
• Experience supporting audits, preparing PBC schedules, responding to auditor requests, and maintaining audit-ready documentation.
• Strong understanding of balance sheet integrity, variance analysis, close management, process documentation, and accounting controls.
• Experience improving accounting processes, close timelines, reporting packages, reconciliations, controls, or systems workflows.
• ERP and financial systems experience required; strong Excel skills required.
• Ability to partner effectively with FP&A, revenue operations, billing, collections, tax, legal, IT, and business stakeholders.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills with the ability to quickly assess priorities, identify issues, and drive practical solutions.