Controller

GHJ Search and Staffing serves as the recruitment division of GHJ, a prominent national accounting and advisory firm. Our team provides qualified Accounting and Finance professionals on a temporary and permanent basis across a broad range of industries. GHJ’s relationship with our Global Advisory and Accounting Network provides the resources needed to better understand client’s needs, attract a higher caliber of candidates and assess candidate potential.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead day-to-day accounting operations and ensure accurate, timely financial reporting

- Own and continuously improve the month-end close process

- Provide leadership, guidance, and development to the accounting team

- Strengthen accounting processes, internal controls, and operational efficiency

- Identify and implement opportunities for automation and improved reporting

- Partner with the Managing Partner and senior leadership on financial and operational priorities

- Help build scalable accounting processes to support continued organizational growth

- Support accounting technology initiatives, system enhancements, and potential ERP implementations

- Bring a hands-on approach to operational accounting while contributing strategic ideas and solutions

Qualifications

- Significant progressive accounting and finance experience with demonstrated leadership responsibility

- Professional services industry experience required

- Strong operational accounting and month-end close expertise

- Experience managing and developing accounting teams

- Proven success improving processes, controls, and accounting workflows

- Strong technology orientation with experience leveraging automation and accounting systems

- Excellent communication skills and executive presence

- Ability to thrive in a fast-growing, evolving organization

- Law firm experience strongly preferred

- CPA preferred

- ProLaw, Aderant, ERP implementation, or systems conversion experience is a plus

Why Join?

- Join a rapidly growing firm that has approximately doubled in size over the past several years

- Report directly to the Managing Partner in a highly visible leadership position

- Opportunity to modernize the accounting function through automation, technology, and process improvement

- Strong culture with significant opportunity to grow alongside the organization

- Potential long-term path to the CFO role