Giant Worldwide Looking for Financial Controller at New York, United States Full Time

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Financial Controller to join our team. As a Financial Controller, you will play a crucial role in managing and optimizing the company’s financial operations, as well as ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of the organization’s financial transactions, reporting and analysis.

Key Responsibilities:

• Revenue Reporting:
• Manage monthly revenue accrual, recognition, and reconciliation process
• Prepare and distribute client, location and service line revenue and margin reports
• Month End Close and Reporting:
• Oversee the month-end closing process, ensuring all financial transactions are accurately recorded, reconciled and reported
• Prepare and analyze financial statements and reports for management review
• Coordinate with the corporate accounting team to ensure proper accounting and reporting of financial data
• Balance Sheet Analysis:
• Conduct detailed analysis of Fixed Asset Register Schedule, Accruals Schedule, Prepaid Schedule, and Intercompany transactions
• Forecasting / Budgeting:
• Collaborate with department heads to develop accurate revenue and cost forecasts, and budgets for the organization. Play “devil’s advocate”. Push back, be objective
• Monitor and analyze budget variances, providing insights and recommendations to management
• Cashflow Forecasting:
• Prepare and maintain a 13-week cashflow forecast
• Collaborate with stakeholders to manage upcoming cash/purchasing needs
• General oversight and coordination of business and financial operations
• Collaborating with stakeholders to review business strategies, tactics, and decisions
• Play devils advocate, provide alternative perspectives, collect data/documentation to support final determinations/decisions
• Be objective, pragmatic, inclusive, transparent and over-communicate
• Regularly analyze operational landscape to target opportunities for optimization
• Project Logs / Billing Spreadsheets Management:
• Oversee client/project rate card and billing spreadsheets to ensure accurate invoicing
• Manage revenue data/process to be audit compliant
• Bank & Credit Card Statement Reconciliations:
• Manage expense GL coding process
• Reconcile statements to bank and credit card statements
• Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable:
• Manage AR processes, ensuring timely invoicing and collections
• Manage AP processes, ensuring proper vendor paperwork (W9/invoices), GL coding determination and timely transaction entry and payment
• Monitor respective aging reports, following up on overdue accounts as needed
• Statutory Compliance and Tax Coordination
• Coordinate with external tax preparers to facilitate tax-related tasks and ensure compliance with federal, state, and city financial regulations
• Undertake special projects and reports as required by management

Requirements

• Excellent communication, leadership, and emotional intelligence (EQ) skills
• Proactive, self-starter, and able to work under pressure with minimal supervision
• Financial system & process implementation and improvement experience
• Experience with integration in a multiple entity environment
• Strong technical accounting, analytical, management and problem-solving abilities
• Proficiency in Advanced Excel, PowerPoint, Word, SAP, QuickBooks and Smartsheet
• 5+ years of experience managing a finance team and full cycle accounting process
• High attention to detail, accuracy, discretion, and confidentiality
• Ability to work collaboratively in teams and independently, adapting well to change with a progressive outlook

Location: This position is 100% in-office in NYC.