Controller

Amplified Marketing; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus eligibility

Healthcare contribution

Cell phone stipend

401k with company match

Paid maternity/paternity leave

Generous PTO

14 holidays

Winter holiday closure

Summer Fridays

Job summary

Amplified Marketing in New York, NY, seeks a Controller to own the financial health of the business and build systems for sustainable growth. The role translates numbers into strategic guidance for the CEO, COO, and leadership team.

You will implement project-level P&L tracking, time and cost reconciliation, and robust budgeting across accounts. The hybrid team works on-site 3 days weekly, with a base salary range of $130,000 to $145,000 plus comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 5-10 years in finance, accounting, or agency finance environments.
• Proven ability to build and implement financial systems and controls.
• Ability to communicate financial insights to non-financial stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build and enforce a project-level P&L system with real-time margin visibility.
• Design time-tracking across teams to capture true labor costs against budgets.
• Own agency P&L tracking, reporting, and cost management across accounts.
• Partner with CEO/COO on budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning.

Skills

Financial modeling

Forecasting

Analytical skills

Budgeting

Communication

Tools

QuickBooks

NetSuite

Gusto

Job description

Amplified Marketing is a boutique, award winning experiential agency that builds brand experiences through lifestyle, entertainment, fashion, beauty, sports and hospitality programs. We are currently seeking a Controller to join the growing team.

Purpose

• Own the financial health, visibility, and sustainability of the business.
• Proactively identify risks and opportunities for Amplified’s financial success.
• The Controller ensures Amplified operates with accurate financial visibility, strong fiscal discipline, and the systems needed to support sustainable growth.
• Beyond maintaining the books, this role builds, implements, and enforces the financial processes AMP needs to protect margin, including project-level P&L tracking, budget baselines, and time/cost reconciliation that do not exist today.

Your Profile

• Hands-on controller with experience in agency, experiential, or project-based businesses.
• A builder, not just a maintainer. Someone who has built financial systems and processes from the ground up, not just run existing ones.
• Strong operator who can move between high-level financial strategy and detailed day-to-day oversight.
• Clear communicator who translates financial data into actionable insights for non-financial leaders.
• Comfortable holding cross-functional teams accountable to budget and process, including teams that don’t directly report to them.
• Detail-oriented and highly accountable, with strong financial discipline and integrity.
• Collaborative partner to the CEO, COO, and leadership team.
• Proactive in identifying risks, inefficiencies, and opportunities for growth.
• Comfortable building systems, not just managing outputs.

Your Responsibilities

50% FINANCIAL PLANNING & BUSINESS PERFORMANCE | Guide Business Decisions & Profitability

Key Responsibilities

• Build and enforce a project-level P&L system. Establish budget baselines at project kickoff and reconcile actuals against them at close, so margin is visible in real time rather than surfaced after the fact.
• Design and implement time-tracking across teams to capture true labor cost against project budgets, a core margin input not currently tracked.
• Establish the process for how estimates are reviewed and how projects are locked in (revenue, line-item cost, expected gross profit) with visibility to the deal team and leadership.
• Own agency P&L tracking and reporting, including revenue, profitability, project margin, and cost management across accounts and departments.
• Own financial planning, forecasting, and budgeting across the agency.
• Work closely with the CEO and COO to align financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting with company goals and growth targets.
• Provide clear visibility into revenue, profitability, and cost drivers across accounts and projects; facilitate cross-team communication and collaboration.
• Oversee financial review of pricing, scoping, margin tracking, and profitability across new and existing business.
• Partner with Client Services and Production to ensure projects are scoped, priced, and managed profitably.
• Identify financial risks and opportunities across accounts and proactively recommend solutions.
• Maintain accurate financial reporting and provide regular business performance updates to leadership.
• Work closely with accountants and owners to maintain clean financial records, tax planning, payments, and visibility.

Measured By

• Accuracy and reliability of forecasts and financial planning.
• Improved profitability and margin performance across projects and accounts.
• Reduction in financial surprises, scope overages, and margin erosion.
• Accuracy, consistency, and usefulness of financial reporting for leadership decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

• Create and enforce the change-order and reconciliation processes that catch scope and cost changes when they happen, not at project end.
• Implement expense coding at the point of entry so costs are allocated to projects at the source, eliminating uncategorized spend that can’t be reconciled.
• Manage relationships with external accounting, payroll, insurance, tax, and benefits partners.
• Oversee all financial operations, including accounting, reporting, taxes, and cash flow management.
• Ensure accurate and timely financial reporting (monthly, quarterly, annual).
• Maintain strong financial controls, compliance, and risk management practices.
• Oversee invoicing, collections, and vendor payments to ensure healthy cash flow.
• Establish and maintain clean, organized financial systems and documentation.
• Continuously improve and automate financial processes to support scalability and efficiency.

Measured By

• Project budgets, profitability, and margin tracking are accurate and consistently maintained.
• Healthy cash flow and working capital management.
• Compliance with financial and regulatory requirements.
• Operational efficiency and reliability of finance systems and processes.

20% LEADERSHIP & BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP | Strengthen Decision-Making Across the Business

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary finance lead supporting the CEO, COO, CXO, and the leadership team.
• Oversee financial components of hiring, compensation, onboarding, offboarding, payroll, and benefits administration.
• Partner with leadership and People & Culture on compensation planning, including offer development and salary benchmarking.
• Provide visibility into the total headcount cost to support hiring and resourcing decisions.
• Oversee financial aspects of employee benefits, insurance, and related programs to ensure cost alignment and sustainability.
• Build financial literacy across leadership and key team members.
• Drive alignment between finance, operations, and client teams.
• Contribute to a culture of accountability, ownership, and informed decision-making.

Measured By

• Leadership confidence in financial visibility and decision-making.
• Alignment across teams on financial priorities and constraints.
• Improved financial discipline across projects and departments.
• Effective integration of finance into day-to-day business decisions.
• Accurate, consistent compensation structures and offers.
• Alignment between headcount planning, budget, and actual spend.

Qualifications

Experience

• 5-10 years in finance, accounting, business operations, or agency finance environments.
• Proven track record of building and implementing financial systems and controls, not only maintaining them, ideally in an agency, experiential, or project-based environment.

Skills

• Strong financial modeling, forecasting, and analytical skills.
• Experience with budgeting, revenue forecasting, and margin management.
• Knowledge of accounting principles, financial controls, and compliance.
• Ability to communicate financial insights clearly to non-financial stakeholders.
• Experience with financial systems and tools (e.g., QuickBooks, NetSuite, Gusto, etc.).

Success Looks Like

• Time tracking, budget baselines, and project-level P&L are live and used consistently across teams.
• Cost and margin divergences are caught in real time, not reconciled manually months later.
• Financial reporting is accurate, timely, and trusted.
• Leadership has clear visibility into business performance and cash flow.
• Payroll, benefits, invoicing, and vendor payments operate reliably and on schedule.
• Decisions are made with financial awareness, not guesswork.
• Projects are profitable, scoped correctly, and predictable.
• Hiring and compensation decisions are aligned with financial reality.
• The business scales without financial friction or surprises.

The Amplified team is a hybrid in-office (10am - 6pm) / remote team and requires team members are in-office 3-days per week.

Compensation package includes competitive base, annual bonus eligibility, healthcare contribution and cell phone stipend. Exact compensation may vary based on skills and experience with a base salary range of $130,000 - $145,000 / year. Featured benefits include employer contribution to medical, vision, dental and life insurance package, 401k (with company match), paid maternity leave, paid paternity leave, generous PTO, 14 holidays, winter holiday closure and Summer Fridays.

Amplified Marketing is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.