What are the responsibilities and job description for the Assistant Controller position at Insomnia Cookies?
POSITION OVERVIEW:
As our Assistant Controller, you will play a critical role in shaping our finance and accounting organization to best support the business and brand strategy. Your responsibilities will include overseeing the month-end close process, managing day-to-day accounting operations, and developing financial policies and procedures to drive governance. This is a highly visible role that will partner with operations, finance, and project teams to support decision-making and drive financial discipline across the organization.
SWEET POSITION PERKS:
•A highly visible leadership role where your work will directly impact the business.
•Rich opportunity to shape the accounting team, set the tone, and drive discipline.
•Competitive salary bonus benefits equity.
•4 Day Work Week (yuppp, we get every Friday off).
•A fun, entrepreneurial, and cookie-filled culture.
•Free cookies, branded swag and so much more!
Key Responsibilities:
•Lead and manage the month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close processes to ensure timely and accurate financial reporting.
•Prepare, review, and approve journal entries and account reconciliations.
•Develop and implement a periodic balance sheet review process to ensure account accuracy and compliance with U.S. GAAP.
•Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing accounting team with a continuous improvement mindset.
•Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to properly account for business initiatives.
•Champion innovation by identifying and implementing process improvements and automation opportunities to increase accuracy and efficiency.
•Play a pivotal role in new systems implementation and business process design.
Qualifications & Experience:
•Bachelor’s in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
•CPA strongly preferred.
•8-12 years of accounting leadership experience — ideally with a combination of public accounting and industry experience, specifically in the consumer products sector.
•Strong understand of U.S. GAAP and practical application of technical accounting.
•Excellent leadership and people-management skills: you can inspire, mentor, challenge and grow a team.
•Experience working cross-functionally and handling multiple stakeholders and workstreams simultaneously.
•Strong communications and presentation skills — the ability to tell a story and not just report out numbers and results.
•Comfortable working in a fast-moving environment, with tight timelines, iteration, and results-driven mindset.
•Experience with Workday ERP and Costar lease management software, a plus.
About us:
Insomnia Cookies was founded in a college dorm room by then-student, Seth Berkowitz. Fast forward 20 years and so... many....cookies... later, our innovative bakery delivery concept has become a cult brand known for its rabid following of cookie lovers who crave Insomnia’s warm, delicious delivery all day and late into the night. With an expanding footprint of over 300 stores globally, an experiential, “sweet-easy” concept as the brand’s flagship in Philadelphia, Pa. (where Insomnia Cookies is headquartered), and a rapidly-growing nationwide shipping and gifting portfolio... Insomnia Cookies is revolutionizing the cookie game by truly "Imagining What’s Possible"!