Assistant Controller
True Classic Tees LLCAbout the role
True Classic is hiring an Assistant Controller to take ownership of day-to-day accounting operations, financial close execution, team leadership, and financial reporting accuracy across the organization. This role will lead the accounting function, ensuring accurate financial records, strong internal controls, timely reporting, and scalable accounting processes.
This role is ideal for someone who is execution-oriented, detail-focused, operationally strong, and people-focused and can drive accountability, develop teams, and ensure flawless execution across all accounting processes in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
All of True Classic’s roles are global and omni-channel, leading designated areas of accountability across all product categories, countries, and sales and marketing channels. This role will have impact across DTC, retail, wholesale, marketplaces, and emerging channels, ensuring strategic alignment and executional rigor across the enterprise.
Areas of Accountability
General Ledger, Financial Reporting & Month-End Close
- Own day-to-day general ledger management, ensuring transactions are accurately recorded, classified, and reconciled across all channels.
- Lead month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close processes, ensuring timely and accurate completion of all deliverables.
- Review and approve journal entries, account reconciliations, and balance sheet substantiations.
- Maintain a chart of accounts that supports multi-channel reporting across DTC, wholesale, retail, and marketplace channels.
- Prepare and review financial statements, ensuring accuracy and completeness prior to distribution.
Accounting Operations Leadership
- Directly manage the Accounts Payable function, providing leadership, oversight, coaching, and performance management.
- Oversee outsourced Accounts Receivable operations, serving as the primary internal point of contact and ensuring accountability for performance and results.
- Monitor AP and AR aging, vendor payment processes, collections activities, and reconciliation accuracy.
- Drive process improvements that increase efficiency, strengthen controls, and reduce manual effort across accounting operations.
- Ensure vendor master data, payment terms, approval workflows, and accounting records remain accurate and well controlled.
Internal Controls, Compliance & Audit Readiness
- Support the development, execution, and continuous improvement of the company’s internal controls framework.
- Maintain audit-ready documentation, accounting policies, reconciliations, and supporting schedules throughout the year.
- Coordinate external audit activities, prepare workpapers, and serve as the day-to-day liaison with auditors.
- Ensure compliance with sales tax, use tax, and multi-state filing requirements in partnership with external advisors.
- Identify control gaps, compliance risks, and process improvement opportunities, recommending practical solutions.
Inventory Accounting, Systems & Team Development
- Oversee inventory accounting across all channels, including valuation, cost of goods sold, margin reporting, and inventory reconciliations.
- Partner with Operations and Systems teams to ensure inventory transactions and movements are accurately recorded within NetSuite.
- Manage accounting workflows related to wholesale transactions, marketplace settlements, DTC reconciliations, chargebacks, returns, and vendor compliance.
- Serve as the accounting team’s primary NetSuite expert, managing close processes, financial reporting workflows, and GL administration.
- Lead, develop, and mentor accounting team members while fostering a culture of accountability, accuracy, and continuous improvement.
Cross Functional Collaboration
- Partner with the Controller to execute accounting strategy, support technical accounting matters, and maintain financial reporting accuracy.
- Work closely with the FP&A Manager to ensure timely, accurate financial data is available for forecasting, budgeting, reporting, and business analysis.
- Collaborate with Operations, Supply Chain, and Systems teams to support inventory accounting, transaction accuracy, and process improvements.<
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