Corporate Controller

Position Summary

The Corporate Controller owns BALs financial controls environment audit governance and lender/covenant reporting posture. This is a controls compliance and governance-ownership role it carries the executive presence for Finance with auditors lenders and firm leadership.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Own the design execution and maturity of the internal controls framework risk assessment control testing and remediation. Candidates should have built or significantly matured a controls environment before not only maintained one.

• Maintain continuous audit readiness as an operating posture not an annual event. Own the audit relationship process directly.

• Prepare and manage lender/covenant reporting under a credit facility revolver or similar debt structure.

• Serve as the primary point of authority for auditors and lenders and represent the firms control posture in executive-level financial reporting this person carries weight in the room not just prepares the materials.

• Partner with the Accounting teams on GAAP application and reporting integrity without owning execution of close.

• Identify and flag control gaps or financial-integrity risk to the CFO and Finance leadership.

Technology & Change Leadership

• BAL is undergoing significant technological and organizational change. This role requires genuine learning agility and technical aptitude not just tolerance for change.

• Serves as an influential voice in technology and process deployment decisions a participant in shaping system changes not just an end user.

• Evaluates questions and champions system/process changes through a controls and financial-integrity lens; asks the right questions whenever new technology touches financial data or workflows.

• Prior experience navigating systems transformation ERP change or major process redesign.

Working Style

• Hands-on: willing and able to dig into transaction-level detail when something doesnt tie out not manage exclusively from a dashboard.

• Comfortable being the no or not yet voice when controls or compliance require it. This is a governance role not a cheerleading role.

• Curious and adaptable enough to stay credible as the firms technology and processes evolve.

• Operates through influence and control authority rather than line management.

Required Knowledge Skills and Abilities

• Track record owning internal controls design and execution risk assessment control testing remediation. SOX exposure is a good indicator but not required.

• Experience in a high-transaction-volume environment (high invoice/payment throughput complex AR/AP flows).

• Professional services industry background law firm consulting or similar partner/client-billing model with working understanding of WIP billing cycles and PS-specific revenue recognition.

• Has led or directly managed external audits and owned the process.

• Experience preparing or managing compliance reporting under a credit facility revolver or debt covenant structure.

• Strong GAAP technical knowledge with proven practical application.

• Direct credible communicator who can explain financial risk and control gaps clearly to non-finance executives.

Education and Experience

• Bachelors degree in Accounting or Finance required.

• CPA strongly preferred not required.

• 10 years of progressive controls/audit/compliance leadership experience required.