Assistant Controller - #1607

at  MeridianLink

Assistant Corporate Controller
Position Summary
MeridianLink is seeking an experienced, initiative-taking, meticulous, and customer service focused Assistant Corporate Controller to join our accounting team.
Reporting to the Senior Vice President, Corporate Controller, this role will be responsible for leading our GL accounting operations team by providing leadership, business collaboration, process knowledge and technical expertise to ensure and deliver financial accuracy and contributing to the strategic financial planning and growth of the company.
As the Director of Accounting, Assistant Corporate Controller, you will have a broad range of responsibilities involving all aspects of the monthly financial close, GL operations, financial analysis, Sarbanes Oxley compliance, support of SEC reporting and system implementations. This will include supporting the Senior Vice President, Corporate Controller and CFO with monthly close and reporting, financial analysis, and continuous process improvement. The ideal candidate should have a proven history of accomplishments within rapidly growing organizations within a public company environment with excellent analytical skills, exceptional communication and organizational abilities and demonstrated continual management progression during their career.

What you would do:

• Leadership of our GL accounting team and overall lead for the company’s monthly and quarterly close, including support for our external reporting processes with a focus on driving continuous process and systems improvements (i.e., quality and efficiency of output) to enable optimal business decisions and outcomes.
• Provide training and development to the team. Foster a team environment that encourages accountability and excellence in delivery. Attract, develop, motivate, and retain talent within those teams.
• Ensure a strong control and compliance framework with corporate SOX and key controls, adherence to US GAAP and other statutory requirements and support for external/internal audits and reviews.
• Point person on behalf of the Corporate Controller responsible for external auditor relationship for all areas other than Revenue and Tax.
• Partner closely with the Finance senior leadership team (including FP&A, HR, Legal, and Tax) to ensure alignment of accounting with both finance and business objectives.
• Support new business initiatives/models which require enhancement or development of Finance/Accounting systems in support of those activities.
• Collaborate with IT and other MLNK functional teams, as applicable, during design, implementation, and post-implementation phases of accounting-related projects.
• Support M&A due diligence, purchase accounting and integration for Accounting SME expertise in key process areas.
• Partner with various department leads regularly to ensure timely and accurate accounting close process and drive improvements of various processes.
• Participate in department and inter-departmental process improvement and documentation.
• Assistance in filing various state, county, and city tax as well as other government filings.
• Participate/lead other ad-hoc projects as needed.

What we are looking for:

• 15-20+ years of Accounting/Finance-related experience, with majority in corporate accounting-type roles, including ideally a mix of Big 4 and high-tech industry experience.
• Deep technical GAAP expertise, with experience in technology or SaaS industry a plus.
• History of building new capabilities, with a process orientation.
• Strong team leader and developer of talent, with geographically dispersed teams.
• Initiative-taker and Change Agent.
• Demonstrated ability to work cross functionally and cross org to accomplish complex projects.
• Strong communications skills, both written and oral.
• Public company experience and CPA required.
• Public company and SOX experience required.
• Public Accounting experience preferred.
• Software or SaaS company experience preferred.
• M&A due diligence and integration experience preferred.
• SEC reporting, ASC 740, ASC 718, ASC 340, ASC 606 preferred.
• Ability to meet stringent deadlines in a fast-paced hands-on environment required.
• Comprehensive understanding of financial accounting and reporting under U.S. GAAP and SOX 404(b) compliance.
• Ability to stay current on FASB and SEC pronouncements and interpret impact to the Company in partnership with internal partners and external auditors.
• Excellent communication skills, both within and across finance teams, but also with business partners (FP&A, HR, Marketing, IT, Legal, Engineering, and other business leaders).
• Initiative-taker who is extremely comfortable working independently, but also works well within and across teams.
• Strong problem solving, planning, quality control, adaptability, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Process-oriented with experience in documenting processes and procedures.
• Detailed oriented with excellent analytical and organizational skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint software applications.
• Experience with NetSuite and Blackline applications is highly desirable.

At MeridianLink, we work together to design, implement, test, and deliver state-of-the-art web applications for the financial services industry, using the latest technologies including cloud computing, mobile development, responsive design, ASP.NET, JavaScript, C#, VB.NET, and SQL Server.

• Leadership of our GL accounting team and overall lead for the company’s monthly and quarterly close, including support for our external reporting processes with a focus on driving continuous process and systems improvements (i.e., quality and efficiency of output) to enable optimal business decisions and outcomes.
• Provide training and development to the team. Foster a team environment that encourages accountability and excellence in delivery. Attract, develop, motivate, and retain talent within those teams.
• Ensure a strong control and compliance framework with corporate SOX and key controls, adherence to US GAAP and other statutory requirements and support for external/internal audits and reviews.
• Point person on behalf of the Corporate Controller responsible for external auditor relationship for all areas other than Revenue and Tax.
• Partner closely with the Finance senior leadership team (including FP&A, HR, Legal, and Tax) to ensure alignment of accounting with both finance and business objectives.
• Support new business initiatives/models which require enhancement or development of Finance/Accounting systems in support of those activities.
• Collaborate with IT and other MLNK functional teams, as applicable, during design, implementation, and post-implementation phases of accounting-related projects.
• Support M&A due diligence, purchase accounting and integration for Accounting SME expertise in key process areas.
• Partner with various department leads regularly to ensure timely and accurate accounting close process and drive improvements of various processes.
• Participate in department and inter-departmental process improvement and documentation.
• Assistance in filing various state, county, and city tax as well as other government filings.
• Participate/lead other ad-hoc projects as needed