Job Description
Assistant Vice President, Controllership
Company Overview:
Our client is a well-established, Fortune 500 technology-enabled financial services organization experiencing ongoing growth and transformation. The company fosters a collaborative and dynamic culture with strong leadership and opportunities to impact enterprise-level accounting operations.
Job Overview
A large, established financial services organization is seeking a forward-thinking and results-driven Assistant Vice President of Controllership to join its Accounting leadership team. Reporting to the Vice President of Accounting, this individual will help shape the future of the accounting function through automation, artificial intelligence, advanced analytics, and modern finance transformation.
The Assistant Vice President will oversee General and Administrative accounting activities, monthly close processes, financial reporting support, and control execution. This leader will also drive transformational initiatives designed to modernize accounting operations, accelerate the close process, enhance control effectiveness, improve reporting quality, and expand the use of intelligent accounting solutions across the organization.
The ideal candidate is a strategic accounting leader with a strong foundation in U.S. GAAP, internal controls, and financial operations. This individual should also have a genuine interest in using technology, analytics, and artificial intelligence to improve efficiency, scalability, accuracy, and business insight.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide leadership and oversight for critical accounting operations, ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of financial information.
- Lead accounting activities related to operating expenses while supporting broader close, reporting, and controllership responsibilities within a strong internal control environment.
- Help advance a modern, technology-enabled controllership operating model that incorporates automation, artificial intelligence, analytics, and data-driven insights.
- Lead finance transformation initiatives, including ERP implementation and optimization, close modernization, process standardization, reporting enhancements, and accounting automation.
- Identify opportunities to improve journal entry processing, accrual estimation, account reconciliations, variance analysis, exception management, and financial reporting.
- Use data analytics and intelligent automation to strengthen controls, improve accuracy, increase operational efficiency, and generate actionable business insights.
- Partner with FP&A, Treasury, Procurement, Finance Systems, Technology, Internal Audit, and external auditors to develop scalable, controlled, and efficient financial solutions.
- Serve as a key connection point between Accounting and Technology, translating accounting requirements into practical system, data, and process solutions.
- Balance innovation and continuous improvement with the organization’s requirements for compliance, governance, financial accuracy, and data integrity.
- Lead, coach, and develop accounting professionals while fostering a culture of accountability, ownership, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
Candidate Profile
The organization is seeking a highly motivated accounting leader who combines strong technical accounting knowledge with proven leadership capabilities and a passion for transformation.
The successful candidate will have a strong understanding of accounting operations, financial reporting, internal controls, and process improvement. This individual should also be comfortable using emerging technologies to address complex accounting challenges and deliver measurable business outcomes.
The ideal candidate thrives in a dynamic environment, enjoys solving complex problems, and has demonstrated the ability to lead teams through periods of growth and change while maintaining high standards of accuracy, compliance, and execution.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Data Analytics, or a related field.
- Seven or more years of progressive accounting or finance experience.
- Three or more years of leadership experience managing accounting professionals and financial processes.
- Experience leading accounting close, financial reporting, and process improvement initiatives.
- Demonstrated success improving operational efficiency and strengthening controls through process standardization and automation.
- Experience supporting finance transformation, ERP implementation, or close modernization programs.
- Ability to partner across Accounting, Finance Systems, and Technology teams to implement scalable solutions and drive organizational change.
- Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP, financial reporting requirements, and internal controls.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, leadership, and stakeholder-management skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- CPA designation.
- Experience leading large-scale finance transformation initiatives and technology-enabled organizational change.
- Experience implementing or optimizing a cloud-based enterprise resource planning platform, preferably Oracle Fusion or a comparable system.
- Familiarity with artificial intelligence, machine learning, predictive analytics, and automation technologies within finance and accounting environments.
- Experience with enterprise data and analytics platforms such as Snowflake, AWS, Power BI, or comparable technologies.
- Public accounting experience.
- Experience working in a regulated financial services environment.
Why Consider This Opportunity?
This position offers an opportunity to help define the future of a large-scale accounting organization by integrating automation, artificial intelligence, advanced analytics, and modern technology into controllership processes.
The successful candidate will have the ability to lead meaningful transformation, influence the evolution of finance operations, develop future-ready accounting talent, and make a measurable impact on how accounting activities are performed across the organization.
This individual will join a collaborative, innovative leadership team focused on building a modern, scalable, and data-driven controllership function that supports the organization’s continued growth and long-term success.
By submitting to this position, you are agreeing to be included in our talent pool for future hiring for similarly qualified positions.
EEO Notice
Vaco by Highspring is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by federal, state or local law.
Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact
HR@vaco.com
.Vaco by Highspring also wants all applicants to know their rights that workplace discrimination is illegal.
Representation Notice
By submitting to this position, you agree that you will be giving Vaco by Highspring the exclusive right to present your as a candidate for the foregoing employment opportunity. You further agree that you have represented information about yourself accurately and have not affirmatively misrepresented your qualifications. You also agree to maintain as confidential, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any information you learn from Vaco by Highspring about the position and you will limit disclosure of information about the position only to the extent necessary to perform any obligations in furtherance of your application. In exchange, Vaco by Highspring agrees to exercise reasonable efforts to represent you through all solicitation, job screening and resume dispersal.
For residents of Ontario, Canada: Based on Highspring’s discussions with its Client, Highspring’s understanding is that this position for employment is a current vacancy (either through Highspring as a contractor or with the client directly).
Privacy Notice
Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries (“we,” “our,” or “Vaco by Highspring”) respects your privacy and are committed to providing transparent notice of our policies.
- California residents may access Vaco by Highspring HR Notice at Collection for California Applicants and Employees here.
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- Residents of all other states may access our policies here.
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Additionally, submissions to this position are subject to the use of AI to perform preliminary candidate screenings, focused on ensuring minimum job requirements noted in the position are satisfied. More details about Vaco by Highspring’s use of AI can be found here (https://www.highspring.com/ai-use-notices/). Further assessment of candidates beyond this initial phase will be conducted by recruiters and hiring managers. Vaco by Highspring does not know and cannot opine on if its client’s use of AI products in hiring.
Pay Transparency Notice
Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:
- the individual’s skill sets, experience and training;
- licensure and certification requirements;
- office location and other geographic considerations;
- other business and organizational needs.
With that said, as required by local law, Vaco by Highspring believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | San Diego, CA |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Company Size | 2,500 to 4,999 employees |
| Year Founded | 2002 |
| Website | http://www.vaco.com/ |
About Company
Vaco provides expert consulting, permanent placement, executive search and strategic staffing for companies around the world, in the areas of accounting, finance, technology, healthcare, operations, administration and more. As a premier talent solutions firm, Vaco connects people to their dream jobs and helps leading companies find talent to grow their business. Since its founding in 2002, Vaco has grown to more than 35 offices across the globe, 700+ employees, more than 3,000 consultants and $450M in revenue. Vaco has been named to Inc. magazine’s list of the fastest-growing private companies for past 11 years and is dedicated to developing long-term relationships, life-long careers and creative client solutions.
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