Assistant Controller (NYC)

Our client is a publicly traded, fast-growing provider of time-critical logistics and specialized medical services to the healthcare industry. They are looking for a Senior Accounting Manager to join a lean, high-visibility accounting team supporting a public company close process.

Location: NYC (4 days/week onsite)

Compensation: $120,000 to $150,000

What You'll Do

• Prepare and review journal entries, bills, and detailed accounting transactions in NetSuite
• Own month-end and quarter-end close procedures, ensuring timely and accurate results
• Drive process optimization and automation to improve the speed and accuracy of the close
• Prepare quarterly income statement and balance sheet analytics, documenting period-over-period fluctuations in an MD&A-ready format
• Partner with the SEC Reporting team on proper classification and presentation of income statement and balance sheet accounts
• Manage balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and resolution of reconciling items
• Collaborate with FP&A to ensure budgets and forecasts reflect current results and underlying drivers
• Support the SEC Reporting team with financial statement disclosures and supporting schedules
• Monitor new accounting standards and assess impact on the company's financial statements under U.S. GAAP

What We're Looking For

• 6-15 years of progressive accounting experience, combining public accounting (Top 20 firm) and/or private industry, outside of financial services
• CPA required, or CPA parts passed; candidates with strong public accounting backgrounds and no CPA will also be considered
• Excellent Excel skills
• Strong analytical ability — comfortable drawing conclusions from account activity and reconciliations, and identifying anomalies
• Experience building and standardizing financial reporting processes
• High attention to detail and accuracy in a fast-paced environment
• Comfortable working 4 days/week in a Manhattan office

Preferred

• Experience at a publicly traded company
• Hands-on NetSuite experience
• Experience with SOX documentation
• Exposure to a B2C, app-based business model

The Environment

A publicly traded, high-growth healthcare services company based in Manhattan, with a fast-paced, hands-on finance function and direct exposure to the Corporate Controller.