Job #1873: Controller - NY (5/5/2023)

Employee Type: Full-Time
Industry: Sports Publishing
Job Type: Accounting
Education: Bachelors or Masters Accounting Degree
Experience: 7+ Years

Description: Professional and collegiate sports yearbook and game day program publisher based in Manhattan and Lynbrook with sales offices nationwide seeks a Controller to report to its CFO. Candidate must be a CPA with 7+ years of public/private experience. The company maintains a casual work culture but the job can at times be fast-paced and demanding, requiring a professional who is collaborative, self motivated, organized and hands-on. He or she must possess superior oral and written communications skills and technical accounting competence with the ability to manage and supervise an accounting staff.

A successful candidate will have an excellent opportunity for advancement to the CFO position within two years.

Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• Managing a small accounting department which handles all of the AR, AP and GL functions of the company.
• Coordinating the accounting effort of the Lynbrook staff with our external payroll/HR department.
• Assisting in the development, implementation and maintenance of the reporting and internal control
  procedures; continually analyzing accounting processes, and working with the IT staff to initiate improvements where needed.
• Handling all treasury functions, including the management of the checking and investment accounts, making ACH and wire payments, and signing checks.
• Overseeing the financial statement close process and the semi-annual preparation of financial statements.
• Managing annual bank and financial statement audits
• Issuing quarterly compliance reports required by our lender.
• Preparing or coordinating the preparation of all tax returns with our outside accounting firm.

• Bachelors or Masters Accounting Degree
• CPA license
• Combination of public (audit) and private experience
• Expertise in GAAP and internal control procedures, with a history of successfully managing accounting departments