Controller

Job Title: Controller
Company: Solen Software Group
Location: US (Salt Lake City or New York City - Hybrid)
Employment Type: Full-time

About Solen Software Group

Solen Software Group is an evergreen holding company that acquires and operates proven vertical-market software businesses with meaningful long-term growth potential. Solen compounds value over decades, not quarters, and partners with founders to build enduring category leaders across HR tech, fleet telematics, asset management, e-health, document management, and other mission-critical software verticals.

About the role

As Controller at Solen Software Group, you will own the treasury function, monthly close process and stakeholder reporting process across our growing portfolio of software companies and at the holding company level. Every month, you will manage consolidation across multiple entities and currencies, ensuring that internal stakeholders and our investors receive reliable numbers on time. You will manage, coach and upskill a team of accounting professionals and make decisions on team resourcing, priorities and critical accounting and treasury systems. You will oversee and successfully manage tax compliance and annual audit processes. You will be the key decision-maker in how new acquisitions are integrated
into the chart of accounts and how their first close is executed. This is a technical, hands-on, build-as-you-go role. This role also requires close, day-to-day partnership with Solen's accounting team based in Portugal. You'll work directly with the VP of Finance to scale Solen's finance and accounting infrastructure, joining a culture-first, Great Place to Work–certified organization that values impact and collaboration.

What You Will Do

Close Ownership and Consolidation

• Own monthly, quarterly, and annual GAAP-compliant close processes across multiple entities and currencies, enforcing the calendar, cut-offs, and review standards, and ensuring audit-readiness. Lead multi-entity, multi-currency consolidations end-to-end, managing intercompany transactions, settlements, and eliminations.
• Partner day-to-day with Solen's accounting team based in Portugal, providing technical guidance, review, and oversight of shared services and cost allocation processes performed there.
• Manage a team of accounting professionals to optimize the completeness and consistency of the close process across various entities and businesses.

Technical Accounting Leadership

• Review and approve journal entries, reconciliations, and key accounting judgments, ensuring GL, balance sheet, and income statement accuracy.
• Ensure perpetual and consistent GAAP compliance and audit-readiness.
• Design and maintain internal controls suitable for a growing PE-backed platform, serving as the primary owner for audit, tax, and regulatory coordination.
• Support cost allocation methodology and transfer pricing considerations for cross-border shared services and intercompany transactions.

Integration and Process Design

• Implement a best-in-class onboarding process for new acquisitions into the accounting structure and oversee successful migration to Solen's ERP and subsequent successful closes, including completion of technical accounting related to acquisitions.
• Design scalable accounting processes and systems that seamlessly integrate new entities without disrupting the close cycle.

Reporting and Stakeholder Management

• Prepare stand-alone, business unit, and consolidated financial statements for management, stakeholders and investors/lenders, supporting PE reporting requirements and ensuring comparability across the portfolio.
• Partner with FP&A on reporting, analysis, post-acquisition integration, from day-one close to steady-state.

Team Development and Mentorship

• Manage and mentor Solen and OpCo accounting team members, serving as the technical accounting reference point for portfolio CFOs and controllers.
• Identify and hire accounting team members based on growth or technical/specialized skill needs.

Tax Leadership

• Manage internal and external tax compliance with internal and external resources.
• Ensure compliance with relevant state, federal and international tax requirements.

Treasury and Lending

• Optimize internal treasury and cash functions.
• Manage banking and lender relationships and ensure compliance with relevant lender-mandated compliance and reporting.
  

International Operations & Compliance

• Own statutory and local compliance reporting for non-US entities, coordinating with local advisors and auditors to ensure accurate, timely filings.
• Manage FX exposure and currency translation for international entities, including functional currency determination and translation versus remeasurement under US GAAP.

Key Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance; MBA or other advanced degree preferred
• CPA license or credential (active or inactive)
• 10+ years in progressive accounting roles, such as Controller, accounting or equivalent roles, with full close cycle experience and team leadership experience
• Strong knowledge of US GAAP, particularly in revenue recognition and business combinations. Experience leading and/or managing complex audits, including multi-entity consolidation and technical accounting.
• Working knowledge of IFRS is a plus; Solen is a US C-corp, so US GAAP fluency remains the priority.
• Expertise in Sage Intacct, including multi-entity and multi-currency consolidations.
• Experience managing FX exposure and currency translation in a multi-entity environment.
• Experience in private equity or permanent capital roll-ups, high-growth environments, technology and/or software companies, or large, complex multi-entity or -business unit/division environments
• Advanced Excel modeling skills.
• Clear, concise communication under deadlines.
• Diverse leadership experiences and capabilities including: the ability to influence and collaborate, develop and coach others, oversee and guide the work of other colleagues to achieve meaningful outcomes and create business impact.
• Legally authorized to work in the United States.

Preferred:

• Working knowledge of Power BI.
• Experience with shared services, cost allocation methodologies, and transfer pricing in a multi-entity or global organization.
• Big-4 or related professional services experience, particularly in audit or advisory practices.
• Exposure to post-acquisition integration and scaling finance teams.

Why This Role Is Different

As Controller at Solen Software Group, you will gain unparalleled exposure across a diverse and rapidly growing portfolio of software companies spanning various industries and international markets. The role offers an accelerated learning curve, allowing you to develop expertise in different business models, revenue structures, and regulatory environments. This position is a career-defining opportunity for a finance leader eager to navigate complexity and drive growth.

The expected compensation for this position is: $160,000-$170,000 USD OTE. Salary is based on a number of factors including market conditions, location and may vary depending on job-related skills and experience

Solen-isms (How We Operate)

·  Ownership Mindset: We own the mission. We don't wait to be told. We lead, fix, and build as if it were ours. When problems arise, we run toward them, not away.

·  Benchmark to Best: We seek out excellence. We measure ourselves against the best and adapt quickly, always looking for the edge that moves us forward.

·  Openly Self-Critical: Leaders go first: they surface their misses early, ask for direct feedback, and turn “game film” into better decisions and better systems.

·  Disagree & Commit: Leaders disagree openly and constructively, regardless of title or tenure, because truth is how we avoid bureaucracy and benchmark to best. 

·  Figureitoutiveness: Embracing challenges, fostering growth, and taking initiative, leaders thrive on hard work and high failure tolerance.

·  Mutual Elevation: Committed to growth, elevating teams, developing future leaders, and removing barriers to mastery and joy.

· Learn-it-alls: Learn-it-alls, not know-it-alls, embracing failure as part of growth and progress.

· Pioneering: Pioneering driven by opportunity, using first principles thinking and unbound by tradition or rules.

·  Will to Win: Leaders relentlessly pursue potential, reject mediocrity, and get what they tolerate.

·  Dialectical: We learn through conversation. We ask, listen, question, and evolve — valuing disagreement as a tool for alignment and deeper understanding.

·  Frugality: Achieving more with less, focusing on quality, long-term value, and company-wide responsibility.

·  Candor: We communicate with integrity, transparency, and respect in all conversations.

·  Kaizen: Kaizen is continuous improvement as a way of life. Leaders make hundreds of small upgrades that compound, turning lessons into standards and standards into durable systems.

Recruitment Disclaimer 

Solen Software Group will never request payment, banking information, or other sensitive personal or financial details during any stage of the recruitment process. All official communication will come from a verified @solensoftwaregroup.com email address. Any outreach outside these standards should be disregarded and reported through our official channels. 

We thank all applicants for their interest in joining Solen Software Group. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.