Senior Director, Assistant Controller

About Industrious

Industrious is the largest premium workplace-as-a-service provider and home to the highest-rated workplaces in the industry. Everything we do comes down to creating great days for teams of all sizes and stages, including our own. We believe that what makes a great day at work is the people on your team and the problems you get to solve together. We’re looking for people who love thinking outside the box and thrive in a truly collaborative setting. As teammates, we encourage new ideas and toast every win. We’re excited about having a meaningful impact on people’s workplace experience.  

Great days also start when everyone can be their authentic self at work. Diversity of backgrounds, thoughts, and ideas is critical to our success in delivering great workplace experiences, both for our members and for each other. Industrious is committed to creating an inclusive, respectful environment that embraces your individuality and quirkiness. You are valued for who YOU are. We celebrate our people as individuals who can accomplish great things when we work together as one team.

We are proud to have been recognized as one of America’s 500 fastest-growing companies in 2020 by Inc. Magazine and one of Forbes’ Best Startup Employers.

To learn more, visit www.industriousoffice.com/careers.

About The Role

As our Assistant Controller, you will lead our US accounting team, overseeing the month-end close, global consolidations, reporting, and compliance functions of our business. You will have significant involvement in new and complex transactions, and drive process and policy across the finance department and the company. You will be responsible for overseeing various operational finance tasks in relation to the general ledger, revenue recognition, related cost of sales, SG&A, P&L packages by department and location, balance sheet reconciliations by location, deferred revenue, journal entries, technical accounting issues, and financial reporting. Using your advanced knowledge of accounting principles, you will support our Controller and provide guidance and direction to the team and the business as we navigate the rapid growth, changing nature, and increasing complexity of our business.

The position will develop scalable and efficient processes that satisfy the organization’s goals around internal controls and finance transformation, and ensure that finance team SLAs are well established and adhered to. You will issue internal and external financial statements and reports on a timely basis, while meeting all financial close reporting requirements and deadlines. You will provide accounting support to operational departments and special projects as needed, being a strong cross-functional partner and leader to corporate department heads, FP&A, and our global finance teams. You will be responsible for annual audit and reporting compliance, tax reporting, accounting for one-off transactions, and adoption of new accounting pronouncements. 

At the time of posting, this position will manage a team of 4 direct reports, plus the reports of those managers; a team of 10 – 12 in total.

This position reports to the VP, Controller and is based in New York City.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for leading and managing the Company’s monthly close process and global consolidation, ensuring that the accounting records are maintained in accordance with GAAP, free from material misstatements and that the NetSuite GL and its sub-ledgers are closed on a timely basis. Includes the review and posting of journal entries during the monthly close process.
• Prepare/review monthly and quarterly P&L variance analysis packages for the Controller. Review all monthly balance sheet reconciliations.
• Enhance the quality and standardization of global financial reporting, working heavily within OneStream (consolidation and reporting tool) to establish and upkeep reporting 
• Continually develop, expand and improve/streamline month end close, financial reporting procedures, and help drive the reduction of the close timeline.
• Oversee annual audit, tax return, and investor reporting processes, including the review and preparation of financial statements and several footnotes to be included in the audited financial statements. Interact with the Company’s external auditors and tax providers with respect to the Company’s financial statements and related analyses.
• Monitor emerging accounting issues and new pronouncements to ensure that the Company adopts applicable guidance on a timely basis. Be able to perform technical accounting research and document findings in an accounting polic