Controller

@ GHJ
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Controller

Los Angeles, CA
Posted 1 week ago

About the job

GHJ Search and Staffing provides accounting and finance professionals nationwide. Our client is a growing professional services firm looking for a Controller to lead operations, improve controls, and support scalability through automation and system enhancements.

Requirements

  • Progressive accounting and finance experience
  • Leadership responsibility experience
  • Operational accounting expertise
  • Experience managing accounting teams
  • Process and control improvement skills

Qualifications

  • Significant accounting experience
  • Professional services industry background
  • Strong month-end close skills
  • Experience with automation and systems
  • Excellent communication skills

Full job description

GHJ Search and Staffing serves as the recruitment division of GHJ, a prominent national accounting and advisory firm. Our team provides qualified Accounting and Finance professionals on a temporary and permanent basis across a broad range of industries. GHJ’s relationship with our Global Advisory and Accounting Network provides the resources needed to better understand client’s needs, attract a higher caliber of candidates and assess candidate potential.

A rapidly growing professional services firm is seeking a Controller / Director of Finance to take ownership of its day-to-day accounting operations and help build a more scalable, technology-forward finance function. This is a high-visibility leadership opportunity for someone who combines strong operational accounting expertise with an innovative mindset and wants the ability to make a meaningful impact as the organization continues to grow.

Reporting directly to the Managing Partner, this role will lead operational accounting, oversee and improve the month-end close, and provide leadership to an accounting team of approximately 8–9 professionals. The ideal candidate will bring fresh ideas around automation, systems, controls, and process improvement rather than simply maintaining existing practices.


Key Responsibilities

  • Lead day-to-day accounting operations and ensure accurate, timely financial reporting
  • Own and continuously improve the month-end close process
  • Provide leadership, guidance, and development to the accounting team
  • Strengthen accounting processes, internal controls, and operational efficiency
  • Identify and implement opportunities for automation and improved reporting
  • Partner with the Managing Partner and senior leadership on financial and operational priorities
  • Help build scalable accounting processes to support continued organizational growth
  • Support accounting technology initiatives, system enhancements, and potential ERP implementations
  • Bring a hands-on approach to operational accounting while contributing strategic ideas and solutions

    • Qualifications

  • Significant progressive accounting and finance experience with demonstrated leadership responsibility
  • Professional services industry experience required
  • Strong operational accounting and month-end close expertise
  • Experience managing and developing accounting teams
  • Proven success improving processes, controls, and accounting workflows
  • Strong technology orientation with experience leveraging automation and accounting systems
  • Excellent communication skills and executive presence
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-growing, evolving organization
  • Law firm experience strongly preferred
  • CPA preferred
  • ProLaw, Aderant, ERP implementation, or systems conversion experience is a plus

    • Why Join?

  • Join a rapidly growing firm that has approximately doubled in size over the past several years
  • Report directly to the Managing Partner in a highly visible leadership position
  • Opportunity to modernize the accounting function through automation, technology, and process improvement
  • Strong culture with significant opportunity to grow alongside the organization
  • Potential long-term path to the CFO role


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