Corporate Controller

Title: Corporate Controller

Location: Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

Function: Finance & Accounting

Reports to: Vice President, Global Finance

Position Overview

The Company is seeking an experienced, hands-on Controller to lead accounting operations, technical accounting, internal controls and the financial close process for our U.S. operations and global organization.

The Controller will be a key member of the Finance leadership team and will be responsible for maintaining accurate books and records, ensuring timely and reliable financial reporting, strengthening the Company's control environment, and developing scalable accounting processes to support The Company's evolving commercial and international operations.

This is not a purely review-level Controller position. The successful candidate must be comfortable moving between technical accounting and financial reporting, close leadership, detailed account reconciliations, ERP troubleshooting, audit support and hands-on problem solving.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Close & Consolidation

• Own and continually improve the monthly, quarterly and annual close, maintaining clear accountability and deadlines.
• Ensure the integrity of the general ledger and timely completion and review of balance-sheet reconciliations, journal entries, accruals, eliminations and supporting schedules.
• Review consolidated trial balances and confirm proper intercompany elimination across The Company's legal entities.
• Maintain the close calendar and drive issues to resolution so Finance can produce reliable management reporting on an accelerated timetable.
• Lead annual fiscal year close and opening-balance roll-forward processes in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance.

General Accounting & Operational Controllership

• Provide oversight for:
• general ledger accounting;
• cash and bank accounting;
• accounts payable and accrued liabilities;
• accounts receivable and revenue;
• prepaids;
• payroll and employee-related liabilities;
• fixed assets and construction in progress;
• leases;
• debt and interest;
• equity and stock-based compensation;
• intercompany transactions;
• research and legal accruals;
• inventory and cost of goods sold; and
• foreign currency accounting.
• Establish appropriate cutoff procedures and ensure material obligations are captured in the correct period.
• Oversee AP close, processing exceptions, AP aging and GR/IR reconciliation.
• Review and approve journal entries and ensure complete supporting documentation and clear audit trails.
• Maintain appropriate accounting treatment and financial-statement classification for leases, debt, convertible instruments, equity transactions and other complex or unusual transactions.
• Ensure accounting policies and financial dimensions are applied consistently across departments and legal entities.

International & Multi-Entity Accounting

• Coordinate accounting and close activities for The Company's international subsidiaries, currently including operations in Spain, Brazil and Mexico.
• Manage monthly intercompany transactions, reconciliations and eliminations.
• Ensure consistency between The Company's D365 books and local statutory accounting records maintained by local finance teams or service providers.
• Oversee foreign-currency translation and remeasurement, exchange-rate maintenance and FX revaluation.
• Partner with local finance resources and external providers on statutory reporting, local accounting requirements and audit support.
• Support establishment and integration of new legal entities, products and markets as The Company's commercial organization continues to develop.

Audit, Technical Accounting & Controls

• Serve as a primary Finance contact for external auditors and coordinate the PBC process, audit schedules, technical accounting support and resolution of audit inquiries.
• Research, document and apply U.S. GAAP to new or complex transactions.
• Prepare or review technical accounting memoranda and supporting analyses.
• Maintain accounting support for complex areas such as:
• leases;
• debt and convertible instruments;
• warrants and equity;
• stock-based compensation;
• revenue recognition;
• impairment;
• restructuring and severance;
• foreign currency; and
• unusual financing transactions.
• Develop, document and maintain accounting policies, SOPs, process narratives and key controls.
• Ensure reconciliations and journal entries contain sufficient documentation to allow an independent reviewer or auditor to understand the transaction and conclusion.
• Partner with external tax, accounting and valuation specialists as appropriate.

Systems & Finance Transformation

The Controller will be expected to become a strong functional owner of The Company's finance systems environment, particularly:

• Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance
• FloQast
• Adaptive Planning / OfficeConnect
• Dooap
• ADP
• Concur
• Excel and Microsoft 365

Responsibilities will include:

• identifying and resolving system/reporting discrepancies;
• maintaining chart-of-account and financial-dimension integrity;
• improving ERP workflows and controls;
• partnering with IT and D365 support resources;
• testing configuration and system enhancements;
• managing master-data changes;
• validating integrations; and
• automating repetitive accounting processes wherever practicable.

Team Leadership & Business Partnership

• Lead, develop and mentor members of the accounting team, setting clear ownership and review expectations.
• Build an accounting organization that can operate effectively with a lean team and a high degree of individual accountability.
• Partner closely with FP&A, Legal, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Commercial, R&D and IT.
• Translate accounting requirements into practical operating processes for non-accounting business partners.
• Maintain strong relationships with external auditors, tax advisors, banking partners, valuation specialists and international accounting providers.
• Continuously identify opportunities to shorten the close, improve controls, eliminate manual work and strengthen financial data quality.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or related field.
• Approximately 10+ years of progressive accounting experience, including meaningful responsibility for close, financial reporting and technical accounting.
• Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP.
• Demonstrated experience leading a multi-entity month-end and year-end close.
• Strong balance-sheet reconciliation and general-ledger skills.
• Experience with consolidations, intercompany accounting and foreign currency.
• Prior responsibility for external audit coordination.
• Advanced Excel skills and demonstrated ability to work comfortably with large datasets and detailed accounting schedules.
• Experience with a sophisticated ERP such as Microsoft Dynamics 365, SAP, Oracle or NetSuite.
• Ability and willingness to work at both the strategic and detailed transactional level.

Strongly Preferred

• CPA.
• Big Four or large regional public accounting experience.
• Previous Controller, Assistant Controller or Senior Accounting Manager experience.
• Life sciences, biotechnology, agricultural technology, manufacturing or other product-based company experience.
• Some inventory, manufacturing and cost accounting exposure.
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365.
• Experience supporting a private company through significant financing transactions, commercialization or public-company readiness.
• Experience overseeing accounting across international subsidiaries.
• Experience developing SOX-ready or similarly disciplined internal-control environments.