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Trista Wearing
Controller
Posted: 06/11/2025
2025-06-11
2025-07-14
Employment Type:
Direct Hire
Industry: Financial Services
Job Number: 17468
Field of Expertise: Accounting & Finance
Remote Friendly: Hybrid Work Schedule
Job Description
A top-notch CPA firm in Atlanta is hiring a Controller to join their team. This role is hybrid.
Job Duties
Accounting & Reporting LeadershipSupport coordination with principals and managers to resolve billing disputes
Establish and enforce policies for credit limits, write-offs, as well as all general protocols related to billing and collection  Â
Support coordination with principals and managers to resolve billing disputes
Establish and enforce policies for credit limits, write-offs, as well as all general protocols related to billing and collection
Accounts Payable & Payroll Oversight
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Job Duties
Accounting & Reporting Leadership
- Lead the Month-end, QTR-end and year-end close process
- Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local financial legal requirements
- Oversee general ledger, journal entries, accruals, reserves, and account reconciliations
- Responsible for tax planning throughout the fiscal year and assists with the preparation of the corporate tax return.
- Presents recommendations to management on short- and long-term financial objectives and policies.
- Oversee client billing and collection processes to ensure accurate invoicing and timely collection
- Foster development of best practice standards to reduce billing cycle time and improve collection rates
- Actively monitor:
- WIP aging to ensure timely conversion of unbilled WIP and identification
- AR aging to ensure timely collection and identification of trends
- Supervise the accounts’ payable function, ensuring timely and accurate processing of vendor invoices and expense reimbursements
- Ensure adherence to approval workflows and firm policies for disbursements and vendor setup
- Monitor cash disbursements and coordinate payment runs to optimize cash flow
- Supervise Payroll processing in compliance with federal, state, and local regulations
- Review payroll for accuracy, including compensation, benefits, deductions, and tax filings
- Liaise with external payroll providers and internal HR to ensure proper documentation and reporting
- Ensure timely filing of payroll tax returns and year end forms (e.g., W-2’s, 1099’s)
- Monitor daily cash balances and ensure adequate liquidity to meet operational needs
- Forecast cash flow and manage short-term borrowing or investing activities
- Oversee banking relationships and negotiate terms for credit lines and services
- Ensure timely reconciliation of bank accounts and proper cash application
- Implement and maintain effective cash controls and fraud prevention processes
- Support annual budgeting and periodic forecasting processes
- Provide variance analysis and commentary to support management decisions
- Maintain appropriate internal controls over financial reporting, timekeeping, and billing
- Develop and enforce financial policies and procedures specific to professional services industry
- Ensure compliance with regulatory and ethical standards applicable to the professional services industry – and accounting firms specifically
- Supervise, coach and develop the finance team members
- Establish goals, delegate tasks, and evaluate team performance
- Foster a culture of accuracy, efficiency and continuous improvement
- Serve as a key member of the corporate operations leadership team
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a team environment and comfortably interact with senior leaders
- Proven ability to efficiently multitask, organize, prioritize, and coordinate simultaneous responsibilities, initiatives, and leadership duties
- Established analytical, problem-solving, organizational, interpersonal, and communication capabilities, accompanied by solid Microsoft Suite and General Ledger application (i.e., Sage) skills
- Experience supervising staff and leading teams to accomplish strategic objectives and the ability to work 3+ day per week in office – with the balance being virtual
- CPA
- Bachelor’s and/or master’s degree in accounting
- 5+ years of general accounting experience
- 2+ years of general accounting experience within public accounting environment
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Meet Your Recruiter
Trista Wearing
Senior Director Recruiting
Trista joined Corps Team in 2006. She is a results-oriented Talent Acquisition professional with 20 years of Recruiting, Account Management and HR experience. Trista received her bachelor's degree in Human Ecology with a minor in Business Administration from The University of Tennessee. She is dedicated to delivering exceptional service and consistently amazes our clients with her ability to find the "purple squirrel" (the one in a million candidate for the job).
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