Controller (Denver)

This role is with a direct client of Aprio Talent Solutions.

Role Title: Controller

Location: 100% REMOTE (Strongly prefer PST & MST time zones due to international overlap)

Employment Type: Full-Time / Permanent

Client Industry: Tech / SaaS

Compensation: $170,000 - $200,000 + benefits

Benefits: Generous PTO package, sick time, holidays, 401k match.

Additional comp: No bonus or equity as this time

Summary:

Our client is seeking a hands-on Financial Controller to own accounting and financial reporting across a three-entity international group. Reporting to the CFO, this role leads the multi-currency consolidation, owns the external audit relationship, and carries the technical accounting for a tech / SaaS business.

Why It's Worth Your Time

• Own the accounting function outright for a global group, reporting directly to the CFO.
• Lead the full consolidation across three entities and three currencies.
• Serve as the day-to-day owner of the external audit, including timetable, PBC list, and query resolution.
• Take on technical depth of a $25M ARR company: revenue recognition on bundled hardware and subscription, foreign currency accounting, transfer pricing, and software cost capitalization.
• Build and automate a consolidation process that is manual and spreadsheet-dependent today.
• Lead a team of three, including offshore resources, inside a growing recurring-revenue business.

What You'll Own

• Help lead the company through it's first time audit.
• Run month-end and year-end close across all three entities and deliver the end-to-end group consolidation from local trial balance through consolidated result.
• Perform intercompany reconciliation and elimination, apply and document the group transfer pricing policy, and maintain contemporaneous support for tax authority review.
• Own foreign currency accounting under ASC 830 across all entities and reporting currencies.
• Own revenue recognition under ASC 606 for bundled hardware and subscription arrangements, and maintain the deferred revenue schedule and release waterfall with monthly reconciliation to the general ledger.
• Own capitalization of internal software development costs in partnership with Engineering, along with fixed assets, leases, inventory, and hardware deployed at customer sites.
• Act as primary contact for external auditors and prepare statutory financial statements for each entity, managing US GAAP to local reporting differences.
• Develop and enforce internal controls, own group accounting policies and procedures, and drive automation across the close and consolidation process.
• Manage US federal, state, and local tax compliance including sales tax nexus, and coordinate regional tax advisors.
• Oversee accounts receivable, collections, DSO performance, accounts payable, and the billing and renewals cycle.
• Lead, coach, and develop the accounting team, including offshore resources

Must-Haves

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting.
• Tech / SaaS industry experience
• Audit foundation from public accounting or served as main liaison on audits
• 7+ years of progressive accounting experience, including time as a Controller or Assistant Controller.
• Hands-on experience consolidating a multi-entity, multi-currency group, performed personally rather than overseen.
• Practical command of foreign currency accounting under ASC 830, including functional currency determination, translation, revaluation, and cumulative translation adjustment.
• Strong US GAAP knowledge with applied ASC 606 experience in a software or subscription environment, including deferred revenue schedules and release waterfalls.
• Hands-on transfer pricing experience: applying an intercompany pricing policy, posting recharges and service fees, and maintaining supporting documentation.

Nice to Have

• CPA designation.
• Experience scaling with a business through $50M+ ARR.
• Background in a company with both hardware and software revenue streams.
• Experience working with offshore or outsourced finance teams.
• Share-based compensation accounting and cap table maintenance
• Systems implementation or process automation experience