Assistant Controller

Key Responsibilities

General Accounting & Financial Reporting

• Lead and manage the monthly financial close process, ensuring accurate and timely completion of all close activities.
• Oversee the preparation of monthly financial statements, management reporting, and supporting schedules.
• Review journal entries, account reconciliations, and balance sheet analyses for accuracy and completeness.
• Manage and provide direction to the General Ledger Accounting team.
• Establish priorities and ensure the accounting team consistently meets reporting deadlines.
• Partner with the Commissions team to develop, analyze, reconcile, and validate commission-related reports and statements.
• Provide oversight and support to Accounts Payable and Claims Billing activities as needed.
• Identify opportunities to improve accounting processes, systems, reporting, and operational efficiency.
• Train, coach, and mentor accounting staff to support professional development and team performance.
• Assist with annual financial statement audit preparation and coordinate responses to audit requests.
• Support the Finance Controller with financial reporting, accounting initiatives, and internal control activities.
• Perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Budgeting & Financial Analysis

• Lead the annual operating budget process in partnership with department leaders and Finance leadership.
• Establish budget timelines and provide guidance regarding assumptions, methodology, and required supporting documentation.
• Maintain department-level budgets and supporting financial models within the company’s financial systems.
• Prepare and distribute monthly budget-to-actual reporting and variance analyses.
• Identify significant variances, trends, and financial drivers and communicate findings to appropriate stakeholders.
• Partner with department leaders to understand financial performance, validate variance explanations, and identify opportunities for corrective action.
• Ensure departmental budgets remain consistent with approved business objectives and organizational cost structures.

Cost Allocation & Expense Management

• Develop and maintain appropriate cost allocation methodologies across departments, entities, and cost centers.
• Ensure allocations are accurate, consistently applied, properly documented, and aligned with internal policies.
• Reconcile allocated expenses to the general ledger and investigate and resolve discrepancies.
• Evaluate existing allocation methodologies on a periodic basis and recommend improvements where appropriate.
• Provide financial analysis and insight related to departmental expenses and cost structures.
• Support initiatives designed to improve expense visibility, accountability, and financial discipline.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• Active CPA license required.
• 5+ years of progressive accounting experience.
• Experience working within a multi-entity or multi-company environment.
• Experience with budgeting, financial analysis, cost accounting, and cost allocation.
• Demonstrated experience leading or managing the month-end close process.
• Strong technical understanding of general ledger accounting and financial reporting.
• Proven ability to manage competing priorities and consistently meet close and reporting deadlines.