Controller

Aprio Talent Solutions; Salt Lake City (UT); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Aprio Talent Solutions partners with a tech SaaS client in Salt Lake City to recruit a hands-on Financial Controller who will own accounting and reporting across three entities in multiple currencies.

The role reports to the CFO, leads the close process, manages intercompany eliminations, and drives policy, controls, and automation while guiding a small accounting team including offshore resources.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting.
• Tech / SaaS industry experience.
• Audit foundation from public accounting or served as main liaison on audits.
• 7+ years of progressive accounting experience, including time as a Controller or Assistant Controller.
• Hands-on experience consolidating a multi-entity, multi-currency group, performed personally rather than overseen.
• Practical command of foreign currency accounting under ASC 830, including functional currency determination, translation, revaluation, and cumulative translation adjustment.
• Strong US GAAP knowledge with applied ASC 606 experience in a software or subscription environment, including deferred revenue schedules and release waterfalls.
• Hands-on transfer pricing experience: applying an intercompany pricing policy, posting recharges and service fees, and maintaining supporting documentation.

Responsibilities

• Lead month-end and year-end close across all three entities and deliver the end-to-end group consolidation.
• Own intercompany reconciliation and elimination, apply group transfer pricing policy, and maintain tax authority documentation.
• Oversee foreign currency accounting under ASC 830 for all entities and reporting currencies.
• Own revenue recognition under ASC 606 for bundled hardware and subscription arrangements; maintain deferred revenue schedules and release waterfalls.
• Capitalize internal software development costs with Engineering; manage fixed assets, leases, inventory, and hardware deployed at customer sites.
• Act as primary contact for external auditors and prepare statutory financial statements; manage US GAAP to local reporting differences.
• Develop and enforce internal controls; drive automation across close and consolidation; oversee tax compliance.
• Manage accounts receivable/payable, collections, DSO, and renewals; lead and develop accounting team including offshore resources.

Skills

Consolidation

US GAAP

Foreign currency accounting

Audit coordination

Leadership

ASC 606

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting

Job description

This role is with a direct client of Aprio Talent Solutions.

Role Title: Controller

Location: Salt Lake City, UT (Must be based here - it will start remote but when offices are ready it will move to a hybrid schedule so only local candidates will be considered)

Employment Type: Full-Time / Permanent

Client Industry: Tech / SaaS

Summary:

Our client is seeking a hands-on Financial Controller to own accounting and financial reporting across a three-entity international group spanning North America, Australia/New Zealand, and the UK. Reporting to the CFO, this role leads the multi-currency consolidation, owns the external audit relationship, and carries the technical accounting for a tech / SaaS business.

Why It's Worth Your Time

• Own the accounting function outright for a global group, reporting directly to the CFO.
• Lead the full consolidation across three entities and three currencies.
• Serve as the day-to-day owner of the external audit, including timetable, PBC list, and query resolution.
• Take on technical depth of a $25M ARR company: revenue recognition on bundled hardware and subscription, foreign currency accounting, transfer pricing, and software cost capitalization.
• Build and automate a consolidation process that is manual and spreadsheet-dependent today.
• Lead a team of three, including offshore resources, inside a growing recurring-revenue business.

What You'll Own

• Help lead the company through it's first time audit.
• Run month-end and year-end close across all three entities and deliver the end-to-end group consolidation from local trial balance through consolidated result.
• Perform intercompany reconciliation and elimination, apply and document the group transfer pricing policy, and maintain contemporaneous support for tax authority review.
• Own foreign currency accounting under ASC 830 across all entities and reporting currencies.
• Own revenue recognition under ASC 606 for bundled hardware and subscription arrangements, and maintain the deferred revenue schedule and release waterfall with monthly reconciliation to the general ledger.
• Own capitalization of internal software development costs in partnership with Engineering, along with fixed assets, leases, inventory, and hardware deployed at customer sites.
• Act as primary contact for external auditors and prepare statutory financial statements for each entity, managing US GAAP to local reporting differences.
• Develop and enforce internal controls, own group accounting policies and procedures, and drive automation across the close and consolidation process.
• Manage US federal, state, and local tax compliance including sales tax nexus, and coordinate regional tax advisors.
• Oversee accounts receivable, collections, DSO performance, accounts payable, and the billing and renewals cycle.
• Lead, coach, and develop the accounting team, including offshore resources

Must-Haves

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting.
• Tech / SaaS industry experience
• Audit foundation from public accounting or served as main liaison on audits
• 7+ years of progressive accounting experience, including time as a Controller or Assistant Controller.
• Hands-on experience consolidating a multi-entity, multi-currency group, performed personally rather than overseen.
• Practical command of foreign currency accounting under ASC 830, including functional currency determination, translation, revaluation, and cumulative translation adjustment.
• Strong US GAAP knowledge with applied ASC 606 experience in a software or subscription environment, including deferred revenue schedules and release waterfalls.
• Hands-on transfer pricing experience: applying an intercompany pricing policy, posting recharges and service fees, and maintaining supporting documentation.

Nice to Have

• Experience scaling with a business through $50M+ ARR.
• Background in a company with both hardware and software revenue streams.
• Experience working with offshore or outsourced finance teams.
• Systems implementation or process automation experience