Controller, Hands-On Leader of a Lean Finance Team at a $50M B2B Services Company | 3677096

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Our client is a privately held B2B services company doing roughly $50 million in revenue, with a leadership team that values straight answers and clean numbers. Finance is a lean, capable team, and the company wants a Controller who will run accounting day to day and lead that team into its next chapter. The work is not exotic: clean closes, accurate payroll, disciplined cash, and reporting leadership can trust. What makes it interesting is how much of the business runs through payroll, so accuracy and controls there matter every single cycle.

• You close the books yourself and lead the people who help you do it

• You hold yourself to getting payroll and the close right, every single cycle

• You are steady, fair and clear, the kind of leader a strong team wants to follow through a transition

• You like a lean team where your work is visible and your judgment matters

This is not the seat for someone who wants to set strategy from a distance, or whose recent work is mostly FP&A or public accounting. The split is roughly half hands-on accounting, half leadership.

• The monthly, quarterly and year-end close, the general ledger, reconciliations and financial statements

• Payroll accounting and controls across more than one entity and more than one state

• Billing, AR and AP oversight, including the checks that make sure every customer is invoiced correctly

• Cash, banking relationships and the line of credit

• Budgets and budget-to-actual reporting for the CEO and leadership team

• The annual audit or review, outside tax coordination, and 401(k) administration

• Helping finish a systems upgrade that is already underway

• Leading four direct reports across accounting, payroll, AR and AP

• A degree in accounting or finance (bachelor's or higher)

• Eight or more years in accounting, with real time spent running the function as a Controller or Assistant Controller and managing people

• Hands-on ownership of the close, the general ledger and reconciliations, not only oversight

• The ability to work on site in San Diego five days a week

• Experience in a services business where payroll is the largest cost

• Payroll across several states, and books that span more than one entity

• Experience leading or supporting an ERP implementation

• Audit, banking and line-of-credit relationships you have owned yourself

• A CPA

• Base salary of $150,000 to $170,000, depending on experience

• Annual bonus of up to 10% of compensation, tied to company performance

• Medical, dental, vision and 401(k)

• Full time, on site five days a week in San Diego

Apply right here on LinkedIn with your resume. That is all we need to get started, and we will contact you directly. xhyhwjd

Pave Talent and our client are equal opportunity employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.