Controller (#7f07)

NextDeavor; Santa Barbara (CA); Hybrid; USD 250,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

NextDeavor seeks an experienced accounting leader to own the close, cash forecasting, and financial reporting, partnering with the CFO to influence strategy. You will manage a small accounting leadership team, working onsite or hybrid, with openness to remote.

This role drives audit readiness, internal controls, and ASC 606 guidance, while extending NetSuite through automation and AI to support growing transaction volume across multi-channel operations.

Qualifications

• Experience at scale in DTC or retail accounting.
• Fast, clean month-end close with documented processes.
• Experience leading a small accounting team.
• Experience owning cash forecasting and cash management.
• Familiarity with ASC 606, inventory and COGS accounting.

Responsibilities

• Own the close. Run month-end end to end with documented processes.
• Own cash forecasting and management for liquidity planning.
• Prepare monthly financial statements, disclosures, variance analysis.
• Design and implement a SOX-style internal control framework.
• Lead audit readiness and manage PBC across all areas.
• Own revenue recognition and tax nexus considerations.
• Scale NetSuite with automation and AI for growing volume.
• Lead and develop the accounting team.

Skills

DTC accounting

Financial reporting

Cash forecasting

Automation in finance

Data analysis

Big 4 experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance

CPA certification

Tools

NetSuite

Excel

ERP systems

Financial consolidation tools

Job description

You will own the integrity of the organization's financial records, reporting, and cash management to enable scalable growth and new sales channels. You will partner closely with the CFO and lead a small accounting leadership team, working Onsite or Hybrid (open to Remote). This role influences board reporting, audit readiness, and financial strategy.

What You’ll Do

• Own the close. Run month-end end to end, including consolidation, with documented, repeatable processes and clear owner and reviewer assignments.
• Own cash forecasting and management. Build and maintain a reliable cash forecast that accounts for inventory and retail payment terms, giving the CFO a trusted forward view of liquidity for planning and board discussions.
• Own financial reporting. Prepare monthly financial statements, disclosures, variance analysis, and board and management reporting, and mature the reporting process to an institutional standard.
• Build the control environment. Design and implement a SOX-style internal control framework covering reconciliations, review controls and segregation of duties.
• Lead audit readiness. Serve as the primary audit relationship and PBC owner across all areas, with clean, well-supported workpapers.
• Own technical accounting. Set and document defensible positions on revenue recognition (ASC 606), inventory and COGS, and sales and use tax nexus.
• Scale through technology. Extend our NetSuite environment with automation and AI to handle growing transaction volume.
• Lead and develop the team. Assess the current structure, define the roles beneath this seat, and develop the accounting team.

What You Bring

• You've run accounting at a meaningful scale in a DTC or retail business, with the Big 4 technical foundation to own the hard positions. You close quickly and cleanly, you're fluent with large transaction datasets, and you treat automation and AI as a working practice, not a buzzword.
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Mathematics or Economics
• 10+ years of accounting/finance experience, including 5+ years in accounting or controllership at a consumer products company with physical inventory and multi-channel distribution, such as apparel, beauty, CPG, food and beverage, or consumer hardware
• Hands-on experience preparing financial statements and disclosures while leading a small team
• Experience owning cash forecasting and cash management

Strongly Preferred

• 5 to 8 years in Big 4 audit
• CPA
• Direct operating experience at a company with $250M+ in revenue, or a clear trajectory toward that scale
• Demonstrated use of AI and automation in NetSuite or a comparable ERP, and comfort managing large datasets
• Experience scaling a company through a growth inflection such as a first audit, financing or exit
• ERP implementation or migration experience
• Multi-entity, multi-channel or international exposure
• Experience working with a growth investor or private equity board

Pay Range

$250k - $270k OTE