Finance Controller

Xplora Search Group; Cherry Hill Township (NJ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Xplora Search Group is seeking a Finance Controller, FP&A to join its leadership team in a newly created role. This hands-on finance position covers financial reporting, FP&A, budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis, and business partnership.

Reporting to the CFO, you will collaborate with senior leadership and PE ownership, lead month-end close, build budgets and long-range plans, perform variance analysis, develop strategic financial models, and drive improvements in close, reporting,

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive finance and/or accounting experience.
• Strong background across both accounting and FP&A; finance generalist role.
• Experience in middle-market, entrepreneurial, or less-siloed environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead financial reporting and management reporting, including month-end and year-end close with Accounting.
• Develop and oversee annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, and long-range financial plans.
• Perform detailed variance analysis identifying key business drivers, risks, trends, opportunities.
• Develop financial models to support strategic initiatives, investments, capital planning, and decisions.
• Prepare executive-level reporting packages, dashboards, and presentations for senior leadership and ownership.
• Partner with Operations, Accounting, and other leaders to improve financial performance and decision-making.

Skills

Finance generalist

FP&A

Financial reporting

Business partnership

Strategic analysis

Leadership

Job description

A growing, private equity-backed business is seeking a Finance Controller, FP&A to join its leadership team in a newly created role. This is a broad, hands-on position for a finance professional who can operate across financial reporting, FP&A, budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis, and business partnership.

This is not a traditional, accounting-heavy Controller role. The ideal candidate will bring a strong accounting foundation along with meaningful FP&A experience and the ability to move comfortably between financial reporting, strategic analysis, and operational decision support.

Reporting directly to the CFO, this person will have significant exposure to senior leadership and private equity ownership and will play an important role in strengthening the company's finance function.

Why Consider This Opportunity?

• Newly created position with the opportunity to make a meaningful impact.
• Direct exposure to and partnership with the CFO and senior leadership team.
• Significant visibility with private equity ownership.
• Opportunity to build and improve the company's budgeting and forecasting capabilities.
• Broad role spanning financial reporting, FP&A, business partnership, and strategic analysis.
• Opportunity to drive continued improvements to the company's close and reporting processes.
• Ideal environment for someone who wants more ownership, visibility, and influence than they may have in a highly siloed corporate finance organization.
• Organization is in an exciting period of growth and transformation following a recent private equity investment.

What You'll Do

• Lead financial reporting and management reporting, including month-end and year-end close activities in partnership with Accounting.
• Develop and oversee annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, and long-range financial plans.
• Perform detailed variance analysis, identifying key business drivers, risks, trends, and opportunities.
• Develop financial models and analyses to support strategic initiatives, investments, capital planning, and business decisions.
• Prepare executive-level reporting packages, dashboards, and presentations for senior leadership and private equity ownership.
• Partner with Operations, Accounting, and other business leaders to improve financial performance and support decision-making.
• Monitor KPIs, profitability, cash flow, working capital, and other key financial metrics.
• Help strengthen and improve the company's close, reporting, budgeting, and forecasting processes.
• Identify opportunities to improve financial systems, reporting tools, and analytical processes.

  What We're Looking For

  • 10+ years of progressive finance and/or accounting experience.
  • Strong background across both accounting and FP&A; this is a finance generalist role rather than a highly specialized position.

  Experience with:

  • Financial statements and reporting
  • Budgeting and forecasting
  • Financial analysis and modeling
  • Variance analysis
  • Management reporting
  • Ad hoc analysis and strategic projects
  • Strong accounting foundation with the ability to understand and work across the financial statements.
  • Experience working in a middle-market, entrepreneurial, or less-siloed environment.
  • Comfortable operating in a private equity-backed organization and responding to ownership-level requests.
  • Strong business acumen with the ability to partner directly with senior leadership.
  • Hands-on, adaptable approach with a willingness to jump in and solve problems.