Consulting Controller – Public Accounting, Audit Exp Preferred

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🌵 Arizona, Idaho, +3 more states – Remote

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💵 $105k - $130k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

⛔️ Financial Controller

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Vessel Advisors

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2016

💸 Finance

💼 Consulting

🤝 B2B

Finance • Consulting • B2B

Vessel Advisors is a finance and accounting advisory firm that provides fractional and interim CFOs, controllers, and accounting staff along with financial diagnostics, executive recruiting, mentoring, and board advisory services. They deliver Financial Discovery Assessments™, a proprietary Financial Heat Map System™, and a 'CFO Power Team' model to diagnose, prioritize, and fix finance function gaps for growing businesses and non-profits across the US and Canada. The firm emphasizes rapid deployment for interim needs, ongoing fractional leadership to support scaling or turnaround situations, and measurable, dollarized improvements; it operates from multiple U. S. offices (Irvine HQ, Las Vegas, Nashville, Louisville) and reports metrics such as 80+ US-based team members and 290+ client engagements.

📋 Description

• Lead Financial Assessments: Run and facilitate intensive, in-person discovery sessions to evaluate client financial health and operational efficiency. • Develop Financial Assessment Reports: Create robust recommendations based on assessment findings with other Vessel Advisors’ SMEs (CFOs, Controllers, and Advisory Partners) • Financial Clean-up & Technical Integration: Step into ambiguous growth-stage client environments, quickly identify internal control gaps, and map out remediation strategies to make their books "audit-ready". • Advisory Mindset: Listen, read the room, and turn inputs into clear next steps and recommendations. • Executive Presence: Lead owner/C-suite conversations with confidence, sound judgment, and a calm, solutions-first approach. • Real-Time Facilitation: Think on your feet by probing and adapting questions based on client responses and dynamics. • Engagement Leadership: Own assessments and select fractional projects end-to-end to ensure scope, timeline, and quality. • Contractor Management: Direct Vessel contractors by delegating, setting expectations, reviewing work, and enforcing Vessel standards. • Advice on Financial Decisions: Provide clients with financial direction/guidance, including upside/downside scenarios, so clients can make informed decisions. • Strategic Planning: Work with clients to identify and achieve their financial goals; guide financial planning and forecasting. • Project Management: Maintain complete ownership of assessment schedules, ensuring on-time delivery of reports and advisory deadlines. • Policy Enforcement: Protect assets and operations by establishing internal controls and maintaining strict confidentiality. • Relationship Building: Build trusted relationships with clients and their key stakeholders through professional presence and expertise. • Guides financial decisions by establishing, monitoring, and enforcing policies and procedures. • Maximizes return, and limits risk, on cash by minimizing bank balances; making investments. • Prepares budgets by establishing schedules; collecting, analyzing, and consolidating financial data; and recommending plans. • Achieves budget objectives by scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; and initiating corrective actions. • Provides status of financial condition by collecting, interpreting, and reporting financial data. • Prepares special reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends. • Prepares fixed asset depreciation and liability schedules to reconcile monthly. • Reviews and reconciles payroll and benefit liabilities monthly. • Complies with federal, state, and local legal requirements by studying existing and new legislation; anticipating future legislation; enforcing adherence to requirements; filing financial reports; and advising management on needed actions. • Protects assets by establishing, monitoring, and enforcing internal controls. • Monitors and confirms financial condition by conducting audits; and providing information to external auditors. • Maintains financial staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees. • Maintains financial staff job results by coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results. • Work with clients to identify and achieve their financial goals; and guide financial planning and forecasting. • Engagement Economics: Manage hours, budget, and margin while escalating risks early (scope creep, timeline, resourcing).

🎯 Requirements

• Controller-Level Expertise: Has 8+ years of experience as a Controller • Advisory Expertise: Has 5+ years of experience as an advisor or management consultant in an in-person capacity • Facilitator: Able to lead intensive, all-day in-person meetings during onsite visits with clients, maintaining control of the room and navigating complex questions, issues, and team dynamics • Tech Savvy: An expert in cloud-based software • Project Management: Deeply, obsessively organized with strong project management skills that have been honed through complex projects with tight deadlines • Proactive & Flexible: A "can-do" attitude when plans change or travel logistics shift • Strong Communicator: Excellent written and verbal skills; 95% of internal communication is via Slack. 70% or more of client communication is via email. • Industry Versatility: Experience in multiple industries; specific experience in Construction, Audit, or public accounting is a plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Salary: $105,000 - $130,000, flexible depending on experience • Bonus: Up to 10% (subject to company and individual performance) • 10 Days PTO • 10 Paid Holidays • Health Benefit Option (i.e., monthly stipend)