Controller / VP of Finance

Company Overview

A growing, multi-platform investment firm based in New York, the company operates across advisory, capital markets, and direct investment activities through several subsidiaries. Two of those entities are regulated: a FINRA-registered broker-dealer and an SEC-registered investment adviser. The firm has built a lean, high-caliber team and is planning significant further growth. To date, its bookkeeping, accounting, compliance, tax, payroll, and financial administration have been supported by outside providers, a model the business has now outgrown.

The Opportunity

This is a foundational, hands-on finance leadership role designed to bring the firm's finance function in-house and build its financial infrastructure from the ground up. As the firm's first in-house finance leader, the Controller / VP of Finance will own accounting, consolidation, treasury, and regulatory finance across a multi-entity platform while partnering directly with leadership on planning for every business line. This role requires a professional who can execute in the details today while building the processes, controls, and team the firm will need at scale.

Key Responsibilities

Build the Finance Function

• Lead the transition of outsourced bookkeeping, accounting, compliance, tax, payroll, and financial administration in-house.
• Design and document scalable finance processes, controls, and systems to support the firm's growth.
• Build the internal team and outside vendor model required to support future scale.

Accounting and Operations

• Own procure-to-pay and order-to-cash processes.
• Lead the monthly close and deliver timely, accurate monthly financial reporting.
• Manage treasury accounting and cash management.
• Oversee fund accounting, including allocations.
• Execute consolidation across the firm's subsidiaries.

Regulatory Finance

• Support financial operations and reporting for the FINRA-registered broker-dealer and the SEC-registered investment adviser.
• Partner with compliance, auditors, and tax advisors on regulatory filings and requirements.

Planning and Partnership

• Drive budgeting, forecasting, and planning across the advisory, capital markets, and direct investment platforms.
• Serve as a trusted finance partner to leadership and business heads.

Ideal Professional Profile

• 8 to 12 years of progressive accounting and finance experience.
• Background at a multi-platform investment firm, large financial institution, or third-party fund administrator, rather than a narrowly focused single-strategy fund.
• Hands-on fund accounting experience.
• Experience with treasury and regulatory financial operations.
• Proven track record designing and implementing finance processes and controls.
• Multi-entity accounting and consolidation experience.
• Strong cross-functional stakeholder management skills.
• A builder who enjoys creating structure, equally comfortable in the details of the close and in planning conversations with leadership.
• Collaborative and outgoing, with the ambition and judgment to step into a CFO-track role.
• Exposure to broker-dealer and/or RIA entities is a strong plus.
• CPA preferred.
• Based in the New York City area and available to work in office full-time.

Work Environment

This is a full-time, in-office role working closely with a small, fast-moving team in New York. The environment rewards initiative, ownership, and comfort building in a firm that is scaling quickly.