Interim Controller
Overview
Lead the accounting function of an established, internationally operating environmental commodities business during an important period of transition and growth. The Interim Controller will oversee a global accounting team of approximately 12 professionals, strengthen accounting processes and controls, and ensure accurate, timely reporting across multiple legal entities.
This role offers the opportunity to make an immediate impact by stabilizing and motivating the accounting team, improving the close and consolidation process, advancing systems integration, supporting audit and compliance requirements, and helping shape the future of the organization’s accounting infrastructure. The ideal candidate is an experienced accounting leader who is comfortable operating in an evolving, startup-like environment and navigating ambiguity with sound judgment.
Required Skills
- Proven experience leading global corporate accounting, including:
- Account reconciliations and journal entries
- Intercompany transactions and eliminations
- Foreign currency accounting
- Consolidation and entity-level reporting
- Balance sheet analysis and fluctuation reporting
- Demonstrated ability to manage monthly, quarterly, and year-end close processes across multiple entities.
- Required experience with NetSuite .
- Strong knowledge of revenue recognition, cost of goods sold, inventory accounting, billing, cash management, and banking processes.
- Experience overseeing accounting for transactions involving purchases, sales, and inventory positions.
- Ability to prepare and present close flux analyses to finance and accounting stakeholders.
- Experience preparing consolidated financial statements and reporting for internal and external stakeholders.
- Strong audit management skills, including coordinating information requests, walkthroughs, process reviews, and year-end audit activities.
- Experience managing lender, compliance, statutory, or other external reporting requirements.
- Ability to identify and remediate gaps in accounting policies, procedures, controls, and signing authorities.
- Experience improving accounting systems, processes, standardization, automation, and reporting.
- Ability to support the integration of international subsidiaries and related third-party systems with an ERP.
- Strong team leadership skills, including the ability to stabilize, motivate, and develop accounting professionals and offshore contractors.
- Ability to work effectively in an environment with evolving processes, competing priorities, and incomplete information.
- Excellent analytical, communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
Nice to Have Skills
- Experience in environmental commodities, energy trading, financial trading, or another transaction-intensive industry.
- Familiarity with energy trading and risk management systems or other trading settlement platforms.
- Experience supporting the design, implementation, or rollout of financial systems.
- Experience with Adaptive or comparable financial planning and analysis tools.
- Experience managing accounting for international subsidiaries transitioning to stand-alone operating entities.
- Experience implementing NetSuite automation for consolidations, reconciliations, and other processes performed outside the ERP.
- Experience supporting capital raises, acquisitions, or other strategic finance initiatives.
- Experience managing accounting operations during a significant team transition or leave of absence.
Preferred Education and Experience
- Significant experience in a Controller, Corporate Controller, Assistant Controller, or comparable senior accounting leadership role.
- Experience overseeing accounting for global, multi-entity organizations.
- Experience working in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, or startup-like business environment.
- Preferred educational background and professional certification requirements were not specified.
Other Requirements
- Engagement: Interim contract expected to last approximately 5–6 months, with potential for extension depending on business needs.
- Start: ASAP, ideally with transition overlap.
- Work arrangement: Remote candidates will be considered; availability to work onsite on Thursdays is preferred.
- Time zone: Pacific Time Zone preferred. Working within the candidate’s local business hours is acceptable.
- Systems: Direct NetSuite experience is required.
- Must be available to lead the accounting function through close, audit, reporting, compliance, systems integration, and process improvement priorities.
- Must be comfortable working collaboratively with finance leadership, cross-functional stakeholders, international teams, and offshore accounting resources.
