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Senior Controller Consultant

At PlusPoint, Our Purpose is to Flourish

Our clients, our team, our community.

 

We know that growing a business is hard work, and reliable and timely financial information about past performance and future expectations is critical to sound decision making. Our experienced team of finance and accounting professionals works collaboratively with our clients to understand their business objectives, assess their financial operations, and identify and implement practical solutions to deliver information and insights needed to grow their business with confidence. We bring our collective experiences to play in providing strategic guidance to hands-on practical implementation to solve problems so that they stay solved. Our ultimate goal of any engagement is to empower our clients with the knowledge and skills to operate without us even when they choose not to.

Our team enjoys working on a variety of intellectually challenging projects that range from the scrappy start-up looking for help managing cash and growth, to established companies seeking to optimize current processes and technology. You will be part of a highly-qualified team that thrives on building strong relationships with our clients and our team and leveraging the team’s experience to solve real-world problems.

Senior Consulting Controller

Summary of Position

As a Sr. Consulting Controller, you will play a crucial role in assisting clients during periods of change, transition, and growth through hands-on accounting and finance services. Partnering with members of the PlusPoint and client teams, you will deliver services in a variety of areas as dictated by client situation and need. Your clients will range from the scrappy start-up looking for help managing cash and growth plans to the established company seeking to optimize current processes and technologies. Areas of focus include:

  • Overseeing client accounting functions and close process
  • Preparing and issuing timely and complete financial reporting packages
  • Developing and reporting key operating metrics
  • Establishing and optimizing business processes and internal controls
  • Assessing client accounting staff and providing recommendations regarding structure, size and team competencies
  • Mentoring and coaching PlusPoint and client staff to improve performance
  • Monitoring and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, debt provisions, etc.
  • Developing and maintaining operating plans, budgets and forecasts
  • Partnering with other team members to identify and deliver appropriate digital systems

Measures of Success

The requirements of every client engagement vary. Your success will be measured by your ability to:

  • Develop and maintain the trust and confidence of clients, team members and other partners while often working from a remote location
  • Work cooperatively and collaboratively with PlusPoint and client team members to achieve desired outcomes
  • Self-start and self-direct activities, including ongoing adjustment of activity priorities, among multiple clients and multiple and varied projects.
  • Effectively communicate with client personnel at multiple levels in the organization, including mobilizing and managing internal resources toward achieving committed outcomes and deadlines.
  • Assess current state of client accounting operations and recommend and deliver improvements for sustained results
  • Identify opportunities to improve controls and business processes, obtain client-side support, and implement recommendations and improvements in a timely and cost-effective manner
  • Deliver high quality results, including financial reports, metrics, operating plans, etc., within established timelines and budgets
  • Effectively manage, mentor and coach client and PlusPoint team members
  • Complete other project-based deliverables as required

Competencies, Values, and Beliefs

People at are the core of what we do and we seek individuals who will honor and uphold the culture and personality of PlusPoint. To succeed as a Consulting Senior Controller, you will possess the following competencies, values, and beliefs:

  • Dedication to building relationships, direct and positive communication, and to helping others succeed
  • Ability to see the world through the eyes of our clients, understand their problems, and offer solutions and deliver high-quality results that meet their needs
  • Intellectual curiosity and a can-do attitude that proactively seeks a solution to every problem
  • Energized by meaningful and challenging work
  • Commitment to working as a member of a team and the ability to quickly gain the trust, confidence and respect of peers, clients, and other partners
  • Constantly seeking to expand your knowledge and perspective by seeking different points of view
  • Self-starter who can work effectively in a self-directed, dispersed work model
  • Ability to adapt to changing environments and to quickly identify priorities and act appropriately
  • Flexibility to manage deliverables with competing priorities across multiple clients in differing industries and at different stages
  • Highly ethical standards of conduct

Knowledge, Experience and Education

  • Minimum 8 years of experience obtained through increasingly responsible positions within the accounting and finance function, with at least 5 years management experience
  • SaaS experience, including a solid foundation in SaaS metrics, along with other high-tech experience highly desirable
  • Excellent knowledge of GAAP, financial cycles, processes, and controls
  • Advanced knowledge of Excel, automated financial and reporting systems, other Microsoft Office products, and other tools commonly used by accounting and finance teams
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to simplify and communicate complex financial issues to executives and peers in a manner that achieves buy-in/gains acceptance
  • Experience developing financial plans and forecasts, cash forecasts, and financial and operating metrics
  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting; CPA or MBA a plus.

Sound like a good fit for you?

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