Senior Level Vice President and Controller Jobs
Senior level vice president and controller jobs place experienced finance leaders in charge of enterprise-wide accounting strategy, financial reporting integrity, and the teams that keep controls running at scale. Openings are concentrated in Construction & Real Estate, Investment & Asset Management, and Fintech, with 0% of roles offered remotely or hybrid, and employers like JPMorganChase, ENFRA, and PIMCO hiring at this level now.
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Essential Duties and Responsibilities
This role provides leadership for enterprise accounting, close and consolidation, financial reporting, shared finance services, treasury operations, and financial data governance. This position is responsible for building a disciplined, service-oriented organization capable of supporting organic growth, acquisitions, and increasing organizational complexity. This includes developing standardized and scalable solutions for routine finance activities, improving quality, consistency, efficiency and controls while creating capacity for business-unit finance teams to focus more fully on operating performance and strategic business partnership.
Enterprise Accounting, Close, and Financial Reporting
- Lead the enterprise close, consolidation and financial processes and establish clear reporting standards, review protocols, and accountability for financial information.
- Ensure consolidated financial results are accurate, complete, timely, and supported by appropriate documentation.
- Oversee corporate departmental accounting.
- Identify and resolve significant accounting, reporting and control issues.
- Lead the incorporation of acquired businesses into enterprise accounting and reporting standards and processes.
Accounting Authority and Technical Review
- Serve as the senior accounting authority below the Chief Financial Officer for enterprise accounting policies, technical accounting conclusions, and consolidated financial statements.
- Review and approve material accounting conclusions, including supporting documentation, classification, and presentation.
- Evaluate complex and nonrecurring transactions and determine the appropriate level of technical support.
- Engage and manage external accounting specialists as needed.
Financial Controls and Reporting Governance
- Establish and maintain close, journal-entry, reconciliation, and financial reporting review processes.
- Define standards governing the documentation, review, approval and retention of accounting records.
- Drive timely remediation of financial close-related control deficiencies and recurring reporting issues.
Finance Systems and Financial Data Governance
- Oversee finance business requirements for systems used to close, consolidate, and report actual financial results.
- Establish governance for the chart of accounts, reporting hierarchy, financial master data, system access, and approval processes.
- Prioritize finance automation and process improvement initiatives.
Shared Finance Services
- Develop and execute a long-term strategy for standardized or shared transaction processing.
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, controls, service quality, and scalability through process standardization, technology enablement, and organizational improvements.
- Establish appropriate service levels, performance measures, and continuous improvement practices.
Treasury Operations
- Oversee treasury operations, including cash-position visibility, banking administration, treasury accounting, and debt-accounting.
- Ensure accurate financial information is available for covenant reporting and routine treasury operations.
- Support the Chief Financial Officer on liquidity, financing, lender, and capital-structure matters as needed.
Leadership and Collaboration
- Build, lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team with clear accountability and decision-making authority.
- Assess organizational capability, succession risk, and key-person dependencies while developing future leaders and critical talent.
- Build effective partnerships across other corporate and business units.
- Foster a culture of integrity, accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and sound financial decision-making.
Qualifications and Requirements
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field.
- At least 12 years of progressive finance or accounting experience, including at least five years leading teams and significant controllership, accounting, consolidation, or financial reporting.
- Experience in a mature, control-based environment with rigorous documentation, review, evidence, financial-reporting discipline, and accountability.
- Experience supporting a multi-site or multi-business organization.
- Experience implementing or transforming enterprise accounting processes, financial controls, reporting standards, financial systems, automation, or data governance across multiple entities.
- Experience designing, leading, or scaling shared services, centralized transaction processing, or enterprise accounting functions.
- Demonstrated expertise in U.S. GAAP, consolidated financial reporting, close management, accounting policy, and SOX compliant internal controls.
- Demonstrated ability to balance technical rigor with materiality, risk, pace, and business needs.
- Experience using enterprise financial systems, consolidation tools, reporting platforms, and advanced spreadsheet applications.
- Strong leadership, communication, analytical, organizational and change-management skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- CPA, MBA or equivalent.
- Experience in manufacturing, distribution, or a similarly complex operating environment.
- Experience with acquisition accounting, financial integration, and the incorporation of acquired businesses into enterprise-level reporting.
- Experience with private equity backed environments and related financial reporting.
- Experience improving financial systems, processes, and reporting across multiple entities.
Key Competencies
- Technical accounting and financial reporting expertise.
- Process transformation and systems thinking.
- Integrity and sound judgment.
- Accountability and execution.
- Leadership and talent development.
- Cross-functional collaboration.
- Clear executive communication.
Equal Opportunity Employer
This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
This role provides leadership for enterprise accounting, close and consolidation, financial reporting, shared finance services, treasury operations, and financial data governance. This position is responsible for building a disciplined, service-oriented organization capable of supporting organic growth, acquisitions, and increasing organizational complexity. This includes developing standardized and scalable solutions for routine finance activities, improving quality, consistency, efficiency and controls while creating capacity for business-unit finance teams to focus more fully on operating performance and strategic business partnership.
Enterprise Accounting, Close, and Financial Reporting
- Lead the enterprise close, consolidation and financial processes and establish clear reporting standards, review protocols, and accountability for financial information.
- Ensure consolidated financial results are accurate, complete, timely, and supported by appropriate documentation.
- Oversee corporate departmental accounting.
- Identify and resolve significant accounting, reporting and control issues.
- Lead the incorporation of acquired businesses into enterprise accounting and reporting standards and processes.
Accounting Authority and Technical Review
- Serve as the senior accounting authority below the Chief Financial Officer for enterprise accounting policies, technical accounting conclusions, and consolidated financial statements.
- Review and approve material accounting conclusions, including supporting documentation, classification, and presentation.
- Evaluate complex and nonrecurring transactions and determine the appropriate level of technical support.
- Engage and manage external accounting specialists as needed.
Financial Controls and Reporting Governance
- Establish and maintain close, journal-entry, reconciliation, and financial reporting review processes.
- Define standards governing the documentation, review, approval and retention of accounting records.
- Drive timely remediation of financial close-related control deficiencies and recurring reporting issues.
Finance Systems and Financial Data Governance
- Oversee finance business requirements for systems used to close, consolidate, and report actual financial results.
- Establish governance for the chart of accounts, reporting hierarchy, financial master data, system access, and approval processes.
- Prioritize finance automation and process improvement initiatives.
Shared Finance Services
- Develop and execute a long-term strategy for standardized or shared transaction processing.
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, controls, service quality, and scalability through process standardization, technology enablement, and organizational improvements.
- Establish appropriate service levels, performance measures, and continuous improvement practices.
Treasury Operations
- Oversee treasury operations, including cash-position visibility, banking administration, treasury accounting, and debt-accounting.
- Ensure accurate financial information is available for covenant reporting and routine treasury operations.
- Support the Chief Financial Officer on liquidity, financing, lender, and capital-structure matters as needed.
Leadership and Collaboration
- Build, lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team with clear accountability and decision-making authority.
- Assess organizational capability, succession risk, and key-person dependencies while developing future leaders and critical talent.
- Build effective partnerships across other corporate and business units.
- Foster a culture of integrity, accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and sound financial decision-making.
Qualifications and Requirements
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field.
- At least 12 years of progressive finance or accounting experience, including at least five years leading teams and significant controllership, accounting, consolidation, or financial reporting.
- Experience in a mature, control-based environment with rigorous documentation, review, evidence, financial-reporting discipline, and accountability.
- Experience supporting a multi-site or multi-business organization.
- Experience implementing or transforming enterprise accounting processes, financial controls, reporting standards, financial systems, automation, or data governance across multiple entities.
- Experience designing, leading, or scaling shared services, centralized transaction processing, or enterprise accounting functions.
- Demonstrated expertise in U.S. GAAP, consolidated financial reporting, close management, accounting policy, and SOX compliant internal controls.
- Demonstrated ability to balance technical rigor with materiality, risk, pace, and business needs.
- Experience using enterprise financial systems, consolidation tools, reporting platforms, and advanced spreadsheet applications.
- Strong leadership, communication, analytical, organizational and change-management skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- CPA, MBA or equivalent.
- Experience in manufacturing, distribution, or a similarly complex operating environment.
- Experience with acquisition accounting, financial integration, and the incorporation of acquired businesses into enterprise-level reporting.
- Experience with private equity backed environments and related financial reporting.
- Experience improving financial systems, processes, and reporting across multiple entities.
Key Competencies
- Technical accounting and financial reporting expertise.
- Process transformation and systems thinking.
- Integrity and sound judgment.
- Accountability and execution.
- Leadership and talent development.
- Cross-functional collaboration.
- Clear executive communication.
Equal Opportunity Employer
This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.
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Senior Level Vice President and Controller Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a senior level vice president and controller job?
Candidates who land these roles typically bring deep technical command of GAAP, SEC reporting, or IFRS alongside a demonstrated history of building and leading accounting teams through audits, system transitions, and board-level reporting cycles. Hiring managers at this level look for executives who can own the close process end to end, communicate financial results to executive leadership, and drive policy decisions, not just execute them.
Which companies hire senior level vice president and controllers?
Companies hiring senior level vice president and controllers right now include JPMorganChase, ENFRA, and PIMCO, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. At this level, hiring tends to concentrate in publicly traded corporations, private equity-backed portfolio companies, and large private enterprises that require a senior executive to own the full controllership function.
Are there remote senior level vice president and controller jobs?
Yes, though many organizations prefer at least a hybrid arrangement for executives overseeing compliance-sensitive functions. About 0% of senior level vice president and controller openings are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, giving experienced candidates meaningful flexibility without sacrificing access to leadership-level opportunities.
What makes a vice president and controller role senior level?
Senior level controller roles carry enterprise-wide ownership rather than functional execution. That means setting accounting policy, overseeing a team of managers and directors, owning the relationship with external auditors, and presenting to audit committees or boards. The distinction from mid-level roles is accountability: senior candidates are expected to shape how the finance function operates, mentor developing leaders, and make decisions that affect the entire organization.
Which industries hire the most senior level vice president and controllers?
Senior Level vice president and controller roles concentrate in Construction & Real Estate, Investment & Asset Management, and Fintech, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These sectors tend to drive hiring at this level because their reporting complexity, regulatory obligations, and investor scrutiny create sustained demand for a dedicated senior executive who can own the controllership function.