Job Description
Global Controller
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Public Technology Company | Greater Boston | Hybrid
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Position Overview
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We are partnering with a global, publicly traded technology company seeking a Global Controller to lead and continue evolving its worldwide accounting organization. This is a highly visible leadership position with responsibility for the integrity, accuracy, and efficiency of the company’s global accounting and financial reporting processes.
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The Global Controller will have broad ownership across general ledger accounting, intercompany accounting, global consolidations, financial reporting, and the month- and quarter-end close.
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Just as importantly, this individual will be expected to look beyond the traditional Controller function and help drive a significant finance transformation and automation agenda, creating more scalable processes, improving controls, reducing manual work, and accelerating the close.
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Key Responsibilities
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- Lead the global month-end and quarter-end close, ensuring timely, accurate, and well-controlled financial results across domestic and international entities.
- Own and continuously improve general ledger accounting, including account reconciliations, journal-entry processes, balance-sheet integrity, and accounting policies and procedures.
- Oversee global intercompany accounting, including transactions, reconciliations, settlements, eliminations, and resolution of differences across legal entities.
- Lead the group consolidation process, ensuring accurate consolidation of global entities and appropriate treatment of intercompany activity, foreign operations, and other complex transactions.
- Oversee the preparation and review of financial reporting, ensuring consistency, accuracy, GAAP compliance, and readiness for public-company reporting requirements.
- Partner closely with FP&A, Tax, Treasury, Legal, Internal Audit, IT, and business leadership to ensure accounting processes effectively support the broader organization.
- Drive finance transformation, identifying opportunities to redesign workflows, standardize global processes, improve the control environment, and create greater scalability.
- Champion automation and technology enablement across accounting, leveraging ERP capabilities, reporting tools, data, and emerging technologies to reduce manual processes and improve speed and accuracy.
- Continue improving the speed and efficiency of the close, establishing clear ownership, accountability, standardized processes, and meaningful performance metrics.
- Maintain and strengthen the company's internal control environment and SOX compliance, partnering with internal and external auditors as appropriate.
- Lead, develop, and mentor a global accounting team while establishing a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, collaboration, and operational excellence.
- Support acquisitions, integrations, system implementations, organizational changes, and other strategic initiatives as the company continues to evolve.
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Ideal Background
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The ideal candidate will bring significant progressive accounting leadership experience within a global, publicly traded company, preferably in technology or another complex, multinational environment. This person should have deep expertise in general ledger accounting, intercompany accounting, consolidations, financial reporting, and global close management, combined with a strong understanding of US GAAP and SOX.
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We are particularly interested in someone who has successfully led accounting transformation, automation, ERP/process improvement, or close-optimization initiatives. The successful candidate will be comfortable challenging legacy processes, introducing new technology and controls, and building a more efficient and scalable global accounting organization.
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A CPA is a must, along with demonstrated experience leading and developing accounting teams and partnering effectively with senior finance and operational leadership.
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What Makes the Opportunity Compelling
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This is not simply a role focused on maintaining the existing accounting organization. The Global Controller will have an opportunity to shape how the global accounting function operates going forward, balancing the rigor required of a public company with a mandate to modernize processes, automate repetitive work, accelerate reporting, and create a more scalable finance organization.
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The ideal person will be both a strong technical accounting leader and a change agent—someone who can own the numbers today while building a better accounting organization for tomorrow.