Remote Controller — Finance & Operations Leader

Meltzer Hellrung LLC; United States; À distance; USD 40 000 - 50 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Meltzer Hellrung LLC is seeking a Controller to lead the hands-on accounting and finance operations for the law firm and its MSO. You will own the general ledger, monthly close, reconciliations, financial statements, cash forecasting, and daily finance processes, supervising staff and outside providers.

Reporting to managing partners and a fractional CFO, you will drive budgeting, financial analysis, and system improvements while ensuring accurate, timely operational execution across

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business/Accounting/Finance or a related discipline.
• 7+ years of progressive accounting experience, including at least 3 years in a hands-on Controller or Accounting Manager role with close, GL, reconciliations, financial statements, and staff review; CFO-only oversight without hands-on execution is insufficient.
• Advanced Excel proficiency, including multi-sheet financial models, linked schedules, lookup functions, pivot tables, formula auditing, and reconciling model outputs to source systems.
• Demonstrated hands-on QuickBooks Online proficiency, including bank reconciliations, journal entries, account mapping, AR/AP, close, and reporting; experience with LeanLaw or comparable legal practice management/billing systems strongly preferred.
• Recent professional‑services accounting experience; law firm accounting strongly preferred, including time and billing, WIP, realization, revenue recognition, reimbursable versus pass‑through amounts, and government filing fees.

Responsabilités

• Design, document, execute, and test internal accounting controls, including approvals, segregation of duties, bank and credit-card controls, and close checklists.
• Own the preparation and execution of the annual budget process, departmental input schedules, rolling forecasts, and budget-to-actual reporting, in coordination with the Managing Partners and fractional CFO.
• Maintain compliance-ready accounting records and coordinate with payroll, tax, audit, and other advisers; elevate regulatory, trust-account, and remittance issues promptly to responsible leadership.
• Perform and review monthly reconciliations of every material balance sheet account, including bank and credit-card accounts, accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll liabilities, accrued expenses, and retirement-plan liabilities; investigate and resolve reconciling items.
• Prepare accurate monthly financial statements and partner-ready reporting, including explanations of material variances, key assumptions, unreconciled balances, and risks. Independently validate figures before distribution.
• Prepare and maintain a 13-week cash forecast and longer-range liquidity projections using reconciled starting cash, verified AR collection assumptions, AP, payroll, taxes, distributions, and other committed cash flows; reconcile projected cash changes to underlying drivers.
• Maintain separate entity-level accounting for the law firm and MSO and prepare accurate consolidated management reporting, including intercompany balances and allocations.
• Account correctly for legal-service revenue, reimbursable costs, government filing fees, pass-through client charges, and trust/IOLTA balances, including appropriate segregation and reconciliation of client funds.
• Maintain reliable AR aging and collections reporting, AP aging and payment controls, billing-to-cash reconciliations, and documented review of outstanding payments and uncleared transactions.
• Manage the monthly close calendar, assign preparer/reviewer responsibilities, complete reconciliations and adjusting entries, and deliver financial statements by agreed deadlines; flag delays before deadlines are missed.
• Guiding financial decisions by establishing, monitoring, and enforcing policies and procedures.
• Providing support to management, particularly to attorneys and managing partners.
• Creating reports that help senior leadership/attorneys understand company financials.
• Maintain documented procedures and an up-to-date register of deliverables, owners, due dates, dependencies, and unresolved issues; elevate inaccurate or incomplete information rather than presenting estimates as validated actuals.
• Own the accounting workstream of financial systems implementations, including workflow design, master-data validation, integrations, testing, reconciliation, training, issue logs, and post-go-live controls; coordinate with internal and external implementation leads.
• Own the general ledger, journal entries, accruals, account classifications, period-end adjustments, and accuracy/completeness of the accounting records for each entity and consolidated reporting.

Connaissances

Advanced Excel

Financial reporting

Payroll processing

Accounts payable

Accounts receivable

GAAP knowledge

Cross-functional collaboration

Formation

Bachelor's degree in Business/Accounting/Finance

Outils

LeanLaw

QuickBooks Online

Description du poste

Meltzer Hellrung LLC is seeking a Controller to lead the hands-on accounting and finance operations for the law firm and its MSO. You will own the general ledger, monthly close, reconciliations, financial statements, cash forecasting, and daily finance processes, supervising staff and outside providers.

Reporting to managing partners and a fractional CFO, you will drive budgeting, financial analysis, and system improvements while ensuring accurate, timely operational execution across