Senior Director, Controller

Mile Marker; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Mile Marker seeks a Senior Director, Controller to lead financial reporting, close processes, and internal controls in a fast-paced agency. This role partners with the CFO and lenders, driving accurate accounting and scalable processes to support growth and potential M&A activity.

You will manage GAAP compliance (ASC 606), treasury and PE reporting while building a high-performing team and ensuring timely, transparent financial narratives for the board and investors.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive accounting experience, including leadership roles.
• Deep GAAP knowledge with ASC 606 and project-based accounting.
• Experience in private-equity-backed environments, covenant reporting, and PE/portfolio reporting.
• M&A diligence, purchase accounting, and post-close integration experience.
• Strong treasury and cash management, including forecasting and working capital optimization.
• Proven ability to lead accounting teams and develop staff; strong systems acumen.

Responsibilities

• Own the month-end close process with fast, clean, well-documented reconciliations.
• Oversee GL accounting, journal entries, accruals, and balance sheet reconciliations; manage revenue recognition (ASC 606).
• Lead controls, audit, and compliance including SOX-lite; coordinate external audits.
• Own treasury, cash controls, 13-week cash forecasting, and banking relationships.
• Manage working capital across AR, AP, and WIP; covenant reporting and lender communications.
• Drive M&A diligence, data room prep, PPA, and opening balance sheet setup; integration planning.
• Develop and maintain the finance systems environment (ERP, WorkBook, Ramp); mentor accounting team.

Skills

Financial reporting leadership

GAAP knowledge

Team leadership

Internal controls

M&A experience

ERP systems

Treasury management

Tools

WorkBook

Ramp

Excel

Job description

We are a modern omnichannel agency uniquely connecting data, creative and media to accelerate results for growth marketers. Mile Marker is an agency where content fuels performance, media drives outcomes, and data underpins an engine that eliminates the gaps that slow down enterprise growth marketers. This unified growth engine feeds a learning system within Relay, our open-powered marketing stack, ensuring every impression, message and experience is built for a business outcome. Mile Marker’s client roster includes FreshPet, DoorDash, Spectrum, Webster Bank, TrueGreen, HelloFresh and Harry’s, among others.

We are a team of strategists, media experts, creatives, innovators and analysts. Over 100 Milers (our humans) strong with hybrid-offices in New York City and San Francisco.

For more information, go to www.milemarkeragency.com.

About the role

As Senior Director, Controller you will own the integrity of Mile Marker's financial reporting, accounting operations, and control environment. You will excel in this role if you can run a tight, timely, and accurate close, strengthen internal controls, and serve as a trusted partner to the CFO, our lenders, and our private equity sponsor. This is a hands-on leadership role in a fast-paced, project-based agency environment: you will be accountable for day-to-day accounting excellence while building a high-performing team and the scalable processes that support Mile Marker's continued growth and M&A activity.

Key Responsibilities

Accounting Operations & Financial Close

• Own the month-end close process, driving toward a faster, cleaner, and more predictable close with well-documented reconciliations.
• Own GL accounting and journal entries, standard accruals, and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Own revenue recognition (ASC 606) in a project- and services-based environment, including WIP, prebill, and interco netting.
• Manage payroll accounting and accruals, and lead capex planning, depreciation, and the fixed-asset subledger.

Controls, Audit & Compliance

• Lead the annual GAAP financial audit, including PBC planning and tie-outs, as the primary point of contact for external auditors.
• Design, implement, and maintain internal financial controls (SOX-lite), including control walkthroughs and remediation.
• Own expense management policy and compliance, including credit card and expense report review and enforcement.

Treasury, Cash & Working Capital

• Own treasury oversight, including cash controls, wires, and banking administration.
• Own short-term (13-week) and long-term/indirect cash flow forecasting.
• Manage working capital across AR, AP, and WIP, including AR aging follow-up, AP lookahead, and reserve reviews.
• Own debt covenant reporting and forward covenant forecasting.
• Prepare the quarterly lender compliance pack, including compilation and narrative tailoring.
• Lead PE reporting and analysis, including covenant and addback reviews and lender/PE briefings.
• Own the financial commentary and KPI trends within board reporting, and maintain executive scorecard tracking.

M&A & Integration

• Lead initial financial diligence, data room preparation, purchase price accounting (PPA), and opening balance sheet setup.
• Drive ERP and financial systems integration, chart of accounts harmonization, and integration of the financial reporting cadence.
• Develop and track earnout models, accruals, and true-ups.

Systems, Team & Partnership

• Own the finance systems environment (ERP and planning tools such as WorkBook and Ramp), including releases and UAT.
• Lead, mentor, and develop the accounting team, establishing clear task ownership, delegation, and cross-training with FP&A.
• Partner with FP&A on budgeting, forecasting, business-unit P&L, variance analysis, KPI dashboarding, and the cost-to-serve model.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive accounting experience, including several years in a Controller or Assistant Controller capacity.
• Deep technical GAAP knowledge, including ASC 606 revenue recognition; project-based, percentage-of-completion, or agency/professional-services accounting experience strongly preferred.
• Experience in a private-equity-backed or leveraged environment, including covenant compliance, lender reporting, and PE/portfolio reporting.
• M&A experience spanning diligence, purchase accounting, and post-close integration.
• Strong treasury and cash management skills, including 13-week cash forecasting and working capital optimization.
• Proven leader of accounting teams with a track record of delegating effectively, developing staff, and improving processes and systems.
• Strong systems acumen, including ERP implementation or optimization; advanced Excel; experience with tools such as WorkBook and Ramp a plus.
• High EQ and exceptional communication skills, with the ability to present clearly to executive leadership, the board, lenders, and PE sponsors.