VP of Accounting/Corporate Controller

As Vectra AI's VP Corporate Controller, you will be in charge of the company’s accounting tasks, ensuring that everything is done properly.

You will be responsible for ensuring all accounting tasks follow financial regulations and reporting requirements to keep the company in compliance.

You will work with financial documentation, tax preparation, internal audits, budgets and financial plans. In this global function, you will also be involved in risk assessment and management, and then informing internal financial policies, procedures and controls.

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As our VP Corporate Controller, your role will be to guide our executive team to make sound financial decisions for the company.

You will help save the company money by decreasing costs, managing debt effectively and identifying and correcting inefficiencies.

The Corporate Controller will also ensure the company has efficient and effective accounting systems.

As our Corporate Controller, you will :

• Manage close procedures which will include : preparation of the close calendar, monitoring close deliverables, review of journal entries and account reconciliations, preparation and review of flux analysis
• Manage stock-based compensation expense.
• Ensuring compliance with financial and accounting regulations
• Managing financial reports and documents, such as balance sheets and income statements
• Responsible for preparation of timely and accurate consolidated financial statements including consolidated statement of cash flows and statement of equity and ensure consolidated financial statements are prepared timely in accordance with GAAP and internal company policies.
• Effectively lead and mentor a distributed team to successfully complete tasks within planned timelines.
• Develop and build additional processes / controls as needed to help improve the quality and timing of the close.
• Lead the P.O and Accounts Payables process to ensure proper coding, reduction in reclass entries, and timely payment processing.
• Performing financial risk assessments and doing internal audits
• Liaise with external and internal auditors in coordinating the annual audit
• Partner and coordinate with FP&A on forecasts and supplemental analysis.
• Assist in preparation of technical accounting memos as transactions arise and incorporate new accounting pronouncements into operational processes.
• Support in implementing accounting policies, procedures and systems as required, and ensure internal control procedures are adequate, properly documented and regularly reviewed.
• Manage efforts to strengthen the control environment and implement process improvements with a particular focus on enhancing our use of technology and development of automated solutions.
• Lead cross-functional projects as requested, including design of end-to-end processes and working with IT to test and implement systems.
• Handling preparation for tax returns
• Responsible for the support of various ad-hoc projects as the business requires

Required Education, Experience & Skills :

• Competence with financial software and technology, i.e ERP system (Netsuite preferred) and month-end close tools (Floqast preferred)
• Understanding of financial and accounting standards and regulations
• Excellent Leadership skills and the ability to work well as part of a broader Finance team
• Ability to prioritize and juggle multiple projects while staying calm under pressure
• 12+ years of proven experience, including exposure to publicly traded and SaaS companies
• Big 4 public accounting experience is highly desired (at least 3-5 years in a public accounting firm)
• CPA required
• Problem-solver who can roll up their sleeves to deliver results while implementing solutions to support the company’s future growth.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and interpersonal skills
• Advanced knowledge of Excel, including the use of pivot tables and vlookup, required

Preferred education, experience & skills :

• Technical accounting experience related to ASC 842 and ASC 815 is strongly preferred
• Software-as-a Service (SaaS) revenue accounting experience and solid knowledge of ASC 606 is desired.

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