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Corporate Controller

CesiumAstro

Join our team as a Corporate Controller, where you will oversee the accounting function, manage accounting teams, and ensure compliance with accounting standards. You will partner cross-functionally with various business functions and provide senior leadership with accurate financial information. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in accounting, financial reporting, and internal controls.

  • Oversee the accounting function responsible for general ledger accounting, financial close, reconciliations, and accounting compliance.
  • Establish functional priorities and operating plans, manage accounting teams through subordinate leaders, and maintain accounting policies and controls.
  • Partner cross-functionally with finance, operations, program management, and other business functions to address financial matters, improve accounting processes, and provide senior leadership with accurate and meaningful financial information.
  • Comprehensive knowledge of internal controls, audit requirements, financial documentation, account analysis, and accounting compliance
  • Experience serving in a corporate controller capacity or equivalent, including consolidated financial reporting, books-and-records integrity, technical accounting, and internal control over financial reporting
  • Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams
  • Strategic understanding of accounting operations, financial systems, process automation, control environments, and organizational reporting requirements
  • Exercises sound judgment in evaluating accounting issues, financial reporting implications, internal control risks, audit matters, and competing organizational priorities
  • 5+ years of leadership or management experience leading finance, accounting, tax, internal controls, or business systems professionals
  • Enterprise resource planning (ERP), general ledger, and financial accounting applications, e.g. SAP, Oracle, , or equivalent applications
  • Financial reporting, business intelligence, build Agents for work and processing automation and data analysis applications, e.g. Power BI, Tableau, or equivalent applications
  • Active CPA License
  • Expertise in generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) or International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), accounting policies, and financial statement preparation
  • Extensive experience evaluating complex accounting transactions, financial results, balance sheet activity, reporting issues, and appropriate accounting treatment
  • Financial close, account reconciliation, and consolidation applications used to support corporate controller responsibilities, e.g. FloQast, OneStream, or equivalent applications
  • Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business administration, or a related field with 11-15 years of related experience, Master's degree with 9-12 years of related experience, or PhD with 7-10 years of related experience in accounting, financial reporting, audit, accounts payable, internal controls, or a related discipline
  • Expert knowledge of accounting principles, financial reporting, general ledger accounting, financial close, and account reconciliation practices