Sr. Controller - General Ledger Shared Services

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Sr. Controller - General Ledger Shared Services based in the United States. This is a hands-on accounting leadership role responsible for the end-to-end record-to-report process supporting a growing portfolio of businesses. You will lead monthly, quarterly, and year-end close activities while establishing consistent, scalable, and well-controlled general ledger operations. The role combines technical accounting expertise, shared services leadership, internal controls, acquisition integration, and process transformation. You will manage a blended onshore and nearshore team and help build an organization capable of scaling as additional businesses are integrated. A key focus will be creating standardized processes, strengthening SOX-ready controls, and using technology and automation to improve close efficiency and accuracy. You will work closely with Controllers, FP&A, Tax, Treasury, Audit, and senior finance leadership across multiple entities and time zones. This opportunity is ideal for an experienced CPA and shared services leader who thrives in complex, high-growth environments and remains comfortable working directly in the details when needed. Accountabilities: As the Sr. Controller, General Ledger Shared Services, you will own the R2R process across multiple entities while leading the people, controls, systems, and processes required to deliver an accurate, timely, and scalable close. - Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual close calendar across supported entities, targeting a consistent close within 8–10 business days. - Review and approve journal entries, account reconciliations, flux analysis, and other close deliverables before consolidation as appropriate. - Remain hands-on with complex journal entries, reconciliations, technical accounting memos, and other critical close activities when required.

- Oversee balance sheet reconciliations, fixed assets, depreciation, prepaids, accruals, deferred revenue, tax entries, inventory adjustments, and year-end accounting activities. - Ensure trial balances, variance analyses, and close checklists are accurately completed and loaded into the appropriate consolidation and reporting systems. - Maintain chart-of-accounts standards and approve new account requests. - Own the GL control matrix, process narratives, flowcharts, reconciliation standards, and journal-entry approval requirements. - Support SOX 404 compliance and partner with Internal Audit and external auditors on walkthroughs, testing, audit requests, and remediation activities. - Lead, coach, and develop a growing team of General Ledger professionals across onshore and nearshore locations. - Define team structure, work allocation, staffing models, quality metrics, hiring plans, and development paths as the organization scales. - Build a culture centered on accountability, documentation, continuous improvement, and effective cross-time-zone collaboration. - Lead the GL workstream for newly acquired businesses, including staffing plans, chart-of-accounts mapping, opening balances, data conversion, and first-close activities. - Continuously refine the integration playbook to make future acquisitions faster and more efficient. - Act as the R2R liaison for OneStream and related ERP and financial systems supporting close, reconciliation, and reporting activities. - Represent the R2R function in ERP and systems initiatives, including requirements gathering, solution design, UAT, implementation, and post-launch stabilization. - Identify and implement automation opportunities across reconciliations, recurring entries, templates, and other repetitive accounting activities. - Support change management through stakeholder communication, training, documentation, and adoption tracking.