Corporate Controller

Corporate Controller

Looking to join a high-growth, acquisition-driven organization preparing for its next phase of expansion? Our client is a large, complex organization with a strong national footprint and a dynamic leadership team focused on operational excellence, scalability, and future public-company readiness. This is an opportunity to step into a highly visible Corporate Controller role where you will partner closely with executive leadership to strengthen accounting operations, enhance internal controls, improve reporting processes, and help build a best-in-class finance organization within a fast-paced environment.

The Corporate Controller will play a critical leadership role overseeing the organization's accounting operations, financial reporting, internal controls, and close processes. Reporting directly to senior finance leadership, this individual will lead a diverse accounting organization while helping drive operational scalability, process improvement, and financial governance initiatives across the business.

This role requires a strong technical accounting foundation combined with the ability to lead teams, influence cross-functional partners, and operate effectively in a rapidly evolving, high-growth environment. The ideal candidate will bring experience from large-scale organizations with exposure to public company reporting, SOX-level controls, ERP systems, and complex operational environments.

Worksite Location: Brooklyn Center- Hybrid 3 days in office

Salary Range: $220K - $235K/yr. base salary + bonus + potential long-term incentives.

Benefits: Comprehensive benefit offerings including medical, dental, vision, short-term and long-term disability, life insurance, 401(k) with company match, PTO, and additional executive-level benefit offerings.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a high-performing accounting organization across multiple functional areas, including Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and general accounting.
• Oversee the monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes while driving improvements in close efficiency, reporting accuracy, and scalability.
• Strengthen and maintain a SOX-level internal control environment, including process documentation, narratives, flowcharts, and governance procedures.
• Partner closely with executive leadership to support strategic initiatives, reporting improvements, and organizational growth objectives.
• Manage annual external audits and ensure compliance with GAAP, SEC regulations, and internal accounting policies.
• Oversee external reporting requirements and support investor and leadership reporting needs.
• Collaborate with IT and business leaders to optimize ERP systems, reporting structures, and data integrity across core financial systems.
• Drive process improvement, automation, and finance transformation initiatives to improve operational effectiveness and reporting quality.
• Serve as a key accounting and governance advisor to leadership while helping build scalable infrastructure for future growth.
• Support integration and operational alignment initiatives within a highly acquisitive environment.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field required; CPA strongly preferred.
• 15+ years of progressive accounting and finance leadership experience.
• Strong background within large, complex organizations, preferably including public company or SOX-regulated environments.
• Deep understanding of GAAP, financial reporting, internal controls, and accounting operations.
• Experience leading external audits, close processes, and accounting process transformation initiatives.
• Strong ERP systems experience; Oracle and Salesforce exposure highly preferred.
• Proven leadership experience building and developing high-performing accounting teams.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, evolving, and acquisition-driven environment.
• Strong communication, organizational, and cross-functional leadership skills.
• Experience with process automation, reporting optimization, analytics, and finance systems improvements strongly preferred.
• Exposure to AI-enabled finance tools, reporting automation, or data analytics capabilities is a plus.

About Versique

Versique: /ver-seek/ adj. being both versatile and unique; n. a high-performance recruiting firm specializing in executive leadership search, direct hire, and interim hiring solutions.

Versique Executive, Professional, & Interim Recruiting is a locally owned and operated hiring and placement firm based in the Twin Cities of Minnesota. With specialized practice areas across our three divisions, Versique delivers tailored expertise to a wide range of industries. What sets us apart is our team of recruitersseasoned professionals who have worked in the very fields they now hire for, providing unmatched industry insight and connections.

We believe people are more than resumesthey are transformative, unlocking the potential for organizational growth and success.

Versique is proud to be an award-winning company, earning recognition on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies and the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal's Fast 50 list for 2023. We are also consistently recognized as a Star Tribune Top Workplace and were named a Best Place to Work in 2022 by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal.

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Versique is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating a diverse workforce. We consider all qualified applicants regardless of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status.