Assistant Corporate Controller (Charlotte)

Carolina PRG has partnered with a fast-growing industry leader to help them build out their leadership team at their new HQ in Charlotte. They are seeking an experienced highly motivated Director, Corporate Accounting to lead their Corporate Accounting team. This is a leadership role responsible for driving the integrity, timeliness, and technical accuracy of the Company's consolidated financial reporting across a multi-entity, private-equity-backed structure. The Director will help drive close process, own technical accounting policy, guide the external audit process, and serve as a technical accounting resource for management and cross-functional stakeholders. The ideal candidate is a self-starter with deep technical GAAP expertise who thrives in a dynamic, fast-growing environment and brings both technical depth and a collaborative mindset.

KEY PRIORITIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

Financial Close & Consolidated Reporting

• Core contributor to the accuracy, timeliness, and integrity of monthly, quarterly, and annual close and consolidation process across a multi-entity structure.
• Help guide the monthly, quarterly, and annual close process across multi-entity structure, ensuring accurate and timely consolidated financial statements
• Own financial reporting deliverables associated with the Company’s quarterly loan compliance requirements
• Prepare technical accounting summaries and supplementary reports for the CFO and executive leadership
• Support ERP initiatives affecting the general ledger, chart of accounts, and close automation, partnering with IT and Shared Services on system enhancements

Technical Accounting Policy & External Audit Management

• Serve as a lead technical accounting resource, setting policy and help lead the annual audit relationship.
• Research and document technical accounting positions (in memo form) on complex or non-routine transactions
• Maintain and update accounting policies across key technical areas, such as revenue recognition, leases, internal-use software capitalization, fixed assets and tangible property, vendor rebates and cooperative marketing arrangements, credit losses and receivables, and cash flow classification
• Manage the annual external audit relationship, including audit planning, technical memo support, and issue resolution
• Evaluate and strengthen internal controls over financial reporting in a growing, PE-backed environment

Team Leadership & Cross-Functional Partnership

• Build and lead a high-performing Corporate Accounting team while partnering closely across Finance.
• Oversee and mentor Corporate Accounting staff (Manager, Staff team members), including workload allocation, performance management, and professional development
• Partner with FP&A on reporting alignment, budget-to-actual variance analysis, and management reporting
• Partner with Financial Shared Services on process standardization, controls, and shared-services accounting workflows across divisions
• Respond to accounting inquiries from senior management and support special projects as directed by the Corporate Controller

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance required; CPA required

• 8+ years of progressive accounting experience, with a mix of public accounting (Big 4 or large national firm preferred) and industry experience

• Deep technical U.S. GAAP knowledge across areas such as revenue recognition, leases, fixed assets, internal-use software, credit losses, and cash flow classification

• Demonstrated experience managing external auditor relationships and leading complex audit engagements

• Proven people-management experience, with the ability to develop and lead a team of accounting professionals

• Advanced Excel proficiency; comfort working with large, multi-entity data sets

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present technical accounting matters clearly to non-accounting stakeholders