Vice President, Global Controller
Location
United States
Posted
13 hours ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Vice President, Global Controller
Harbor
• Lead Harbor’s global accounting, financial reporting, and controllership activities across regions and entities. • Ensure financial results are accurate, timely, well-supported, and useful for leadership decision-making. • Oversee global close governance, including close calendars, reporting deliverables, reconciliations, review standards, and issue resolution. • Maintain and evolve accounting policies, reporting practices, and documentation to support consistency across the global business. • Provide guidance on complex accounting matters, including revenue recognition, accruals, commissions, leases, intercompany activity, acquisitions, and other significant transactions. • Continue to strengthen scalable controls across key accounting and reporting processes. • Support a consistent approach to documentation, approvals, reconciliations, reviews, and audit support. • Partner with external auditors and advisors on accounting, reporting, controls, and technical accounting matters. • Partner with external tax advisors to ensure compliance with applicable federal, state, local, and international tax requirements while identifying opportunities to reduce tax exposure and improve tax efficiency. • Ensure the organization is well-prepared for audit and compliance requirements through proactive planning and strong underlying support. • Balance control discipline with a practical, business-oriented approach that supports efficiency and collaboration. • Partner with Finance leaders and regional teams to ensure accounting activities are coordinated effectively across close, reporting, AR, AP, billing, payroll accounting, intercompany, and statutory requirements. • Identify opportunities to simplify processes, improve handoffs, reduce manual work, and increase consistency across teams and geographies. • Support system, process, and reporting improvements that make Finance more efficient, reliable, and scalable. • Lead and optimize accounting processes within NetSuite, Harbor’s existing ERP system, ensuring effective use of system capabilities, data integrity, and scalable reporting processes. • Lead, coach, and develop accounting and financial reporting team members across functions and regions. • Build strong relationships across Finance and the business, creating trust through responsiveness, accuracy, sound judgment, and practical problem-solving. • Foster a supportive, collaborative, and accountable team culture. • Support M&A diligence and integration activities, including accounting policy alignment, opening balance sheets, systems integration, close process integration, intercompany setup, and control considerations. • Support acquisition integration activities, including accounting process alignment, ERP/reporting integration, opening balance sheet review, purchase accounting support, and implementation of Harbor financial controls and reporting standards. • Translate accounting, controls, and reporting topics into clear, practical recommendations for Finance and business leaders.
Job Requirements
- Significant accounting, financial reporting, and controllership experience in a global, multi-entity organization.
- Experience leading financial reporting, close governance, audit, reconciliations, accounting policy, controls, and accounting operations.
- Strong technical accounting knowledge and ability to evaluate and document complex accounting matters.
- Proven track record of successfully leading, developing, and organizing accounting or financial reporting teams.
- Strong understanding of ERP systems, accounting data flows, close management, reporting processes, and internal controls.
- Strong judgment, attention to detail, and ability to balance technical accuracy with business needs.
- Collaborative leadership style with the ability to influence through partnership, clarity, and trust.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to partner with senior Finance leaders, auditors, external advisors, systems teams, and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Professional accounting qualifications, such as CPA, CA, ACCA, or equivalent experience.
- Experience in a private equity-backed, acquisitive, SaaS, professional services, or global business environment (preferred).
- Experience supporting M&A diligence and integration (preferred).
- Experience with US, Canadian, and UK accounting, statutory reporting, or multi-jurisdictional reporting environments (preferred).
- Experience helping a Finance function scale through improved processes, systems, controls, and team development (preferred).
- Experience with NetSuite strongly preferred; ability to leverage an existing ERP environment to improve accounting operations, reporting, controls, and scalability (preferred).
Benefits
- remote work options
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