VP Controller

Role Summary:             

The VP Controller will serve as a key financial advisor to senior management, working closely with the CFO as the senior accounting executive responsible for financial accounting and reporting, billing, receivables, payables, treasury, and tax. Overseeing a team of 35 , this person will oversee managers directly responsible for all aspects of accounting operations, including maintenance and enforcement of corporate accounting policies and procedures in accordance with GAAP requirements, ensuring the integrity of the company's financial data and reporting.

As a VP Controller, you will:  

• Assume overall leadership for accounting procedures and all financial reporting. Determine and recommend internal accounting and reporting procedures and policies.
• Coordinate all accounting/reporting interaction. Ensure that the company’s financial results are accurately reported from a Lender reporting, BOD reporting and fiscal statutory perspective.
• Lead a large offshore billing and collections team and guide the US-based Billings and Collections manager on KPIs
• Lead the accounting team in ensuring consistent implementation of corporate accounting principles and procedures in full compliance with US GAAP.
• Ensure the adequacy of policies, procedures and controls for the company, creating policies and procedures where necessary.
• Provide expertise in software, multi-element arrangements/revenue recognition, purchase accounting, and equity accounting.
• Serve as principal interface with the independent public accountants (Big 4) for the planning, coordination and conduct of their annual audit and other services across the company.
• Own and improve financial systems and the transparency of the output
• Develop future financial leaders through training and mentoring of individuals, as well as staffing and recruiting of necessary skill sets.
• Manage the company’s Tax & Treasury functions - Coordinate with external tax advisors to analyze and maintain tax compliance including Federal, State, Sales, Use, and R&D tax credits.
• Oversee research of technical accounting issues and be a key decision maker with respect to accounting decisions and monitor, understand, and communicate pending FASB proposals, their timing, and potential effects, in particular Topic 606.
• Continuously streamline and enhance back office systems and processes to provide superior customer service to TCP employees in the areas of payroll, expense report processing, and the procure to pay process.
• Consult on accounting impact of proposed M&A transactions and advise operating executives on alternative deal structures. Lead the financial integration of acquired companies.
• Deliver frequent presentations to the Board of Directors/PE Sponsors on topics of special interest, as well as reviews of quarterly and annual financial statements.

You are a strong fit for this role if you have:  

• Experience with a growth, enterprise software company with ideal scale of $75M .
• Experience in PE-backed environment and understands pace, rigor, and process in which value is created.
• Must be strong in revenue recognition and ideally has experience within SaaS environment.
• Experience with M&A, and can align people, process, and technology post-acquisition.
• Experience with international back office operations, foreign subs and associated statutory legal and tax compliance is desirable.
• Has hired, developed, and led A teams (managing offshore teams is ideal), retains and rewards key contributors and is able to course-correct underperformers.
• Interpersonal in nature and can efficiently work across functions to improve operations.
• Proven success with streamlining and accelerating monthly close process.
• Results-oriented and highly committed to delivering against the highest standards of performance within given time and budget constraints.
• CPA / Big 4 Accounting experience is desirable.

The ideal candidate will be located in the Dallas Metroplex (TX) but open to remote work for the right candidate.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary 
• 20 Days of PTO (Paid Time Off) and 13 days of companywide holidays  
• 8 hours to volunteer and impact the community  
• Comprehensive benefits (Health/Dental/Vision/ 401K)  
• The work/life set up you need to be successful.  

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