Corporate Controller

BAL; Richardson (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

BAL seeks a Corporate Controller to own BAL’s financial controls, audit governance, and lender reporting. This senior role combines governance, integrity, and executive presence with auditors, lenders, and leadership.

Responsibilities include maturing the internal controls framework, maintaining audit readiness, and managing covenant reporting. Strong GAAP knowledge and past external-audit leadership are essential for success in this controls-driven environment.

Qualifications

• Own internal controls design and execution, including risk assessment, testing, and remediation.
• SOX exposure is indicative but not required.
• Experience in high-transaction-volume environments with AR/AP complexity.
• Led external audits and managed audit processes.
• Experience preparing compliance reporting under debt covenants or credit facilities.
• Strong GAAP technical knowledge with practical application.

Responsibilities

• Own design, execution, and maturity of internal controls framework and remediation.
• Maintain continuous audit readiness and manage the audit relationship.
• Prepare and manage lender/covenant reporting under debt facilities.
• Serve as primary authority for auditors and lenders in financial reporting.
• Partner with Accounting on GAAP reporting integrity without owning close.
• Flag control gaps and financial risk to CFO and finance leadership.

Skills

Internal controls design

SOX awareness

Audit readiness

GAAP knowledge

Financial reporting

Communication to executives

Risk assessment

Education

Bachelor’s in Accounting or Finance

CPA (preferred)

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

Position Summary

The Corporate Controller owns BAL’s financial controls environment, audit governance, and lender/covenant reporting posture. This is a controls, compliance, and governance-ownership role — it carries the executive presence for Finance with auditors, lenders, and firm leadership.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Own the design, execution, and maturity of the internal controls framework — risk assessment, control testing, and remediation. Candidates should have built or significantly matured a controls environment before, not only maintained one.
• Maintain continuous audit readiness as an operating posture, not an annual event. Own the audit relationship process directly.
• Prepare and manage lender/covenant reporting under a credit facility, revolver, or similar debt structure.
• Serve as the primary point of authority for auditors and lenders, and represent the firm’s control posture in executive-level financial reporting — this person carries weight in the room, not just prepares the materials.
• Partner with the Accounting teams on GAAP application and reporting integrity, without owning execution of close.
• Identify and flag control gaps or financial-integrity risk to the CFO and Finance leadership.

Technology & Change Leadership

• BAL is undergoing significant technological and organizational change. This role requires genuine learning agility and technical aptitude — not just tolerance for change.
• Serves as an influential voice in technology and process deployment decisions — a participant in shaping system changes, not just an end user.
• Evaluates, questions, and champions system/process changes through a controls and financial-integrity lens; asks the right questions whenever new technology touches financial data or workflows.
• Prior experience navigating systems transformation, ERP change, or major process redesign.

Working Style

• Hands-on: willing and able to dig into transaction-level detail when something doesn’t tie out, not manage exclusively from a dashboard.
• Comfortable being the “no” or “not yet” voice when controls or compliance require it. This is a governance role, not a cheerleading role.
• Curious and adaptable enough to stay credible as the firm’s technology and processes evolve.
• Operates through influence and control authority rather than line management.

Required Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Track record owning internal controls design and execution — risk assessment, control testing, remediation. SOX exposure is a good indicator but not required.
• Experience in a high-transaction-volume environment (high invoice/payment throughput, complex AR/AP flows).
• Professional services industry background — law firm, consulting, or similar partner/client-billing model — with working understanding of WIP, billing cycles, and PS-specific revenue recognition.
• Has led or directly managed external audits and owned the process.
• Experience preparing or managing compliance reporting under a credit facility, revolver, or debt covenant structure.
• Strong GAAP technical knowledge with proven practical application.
• Direct, credible communicator who can explain financial risk and control gaps clearly to non-finance executives.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance required.
• CPA strongly preferred, not required.
• 10+ years of progressive controls/audit/compliance leadership experience required.