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Our client is in the retail space, and is looking for an Assistant Controller to help manage day to day accounting functions. The team is very friendly and close-knit, and they foster a very entrepreneurial environment.
Role
- Oversee the efficiency and precision of daily operations, covering tasks such as handling accounts payable, cash disbursements, invoicing/billing for portfolio companies, managing customer credits and collections, maintaining fixed asset records, overseeing general and entity accounting, managing cost accounting, processing employee reimbursements, and managing intercompany allocations.
- Play an active role in the annual budgeting process for the management company.
- Implement measures to safeguard assets and ensure the accurate and timely recording of transactions by establishing controls and checks across departments.
- Streamline the monthly general ledger closure process, including billing for portfolio companies.
- Identify and implement opportunities for streamlining accounting processes to enhance efficiency and contribute to the purchase accounting of portfolio companies.
- Document processes for all accounting cycle aspects and continually develop and document accounting policies and procedures.
- Foster internal relationships across all organizational levels by offering support and collaborating across departments.
- Hold supervisory responsibilities for managing, training, and evaluating the accounting team, including task planning, delegation, performance evaluation, and conflict resolution.
- Ensure accurate reporting of monthly results from portfolio companies to senior management and develop management reporting systems to facilitate access to financial data for real-time decision-making
Requirements
- BAin Accounting, Finance or similar
- CPA or MBA strongly preferred
- 6 years minimum experience in accounting, including GAAP
- Organized, curious, detail oriented, and high-touch communicator
- Team player and process oriented
- Ability to effectively strategize and present policy and procedure improvements and ideas
- This role is 100% on site
Vaco values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.
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Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:
- the individual's skill sets, experience and training;
- licensure and certification requirements;
- office location and other geographic considerations;
- other business and organizational needs.
With that said, as required by local law, Vaco believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.