Agency Controller

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Noble Studios is seeking a hands-on Controller with agency experience who will manage our small accounting team and personally handle our budgeting, financial analysis, reporting, and forecasting. This role makes strategic and financial recommendations to the leadership team, as well as oversees our external tax accountants and business insurance brokers. Noble’s Controller ensures subcontractors are effectively managed and serves as our primary interface to tax departments in the cities and states where we have offices and employees.

The position helps senior management create a strategic vision by providing and developing data, KPI’s, and by proactively recommending revenue enhancement and cost reduction strategies. The position serves as a resource to the organization and maintains the company’s financial single source of truth.

In addition to directly leading a small team, this is a hands-on, results-oriented, and fully accountable position, serving the organization with needed data and ensuring Noble stays on track financially by creating and disseminating accurate and timely information and insightful recommendations. This role requires the ability to create positive dialogues with both the senior leadership team and all levels of staff.

Attention to detail and the ability to multi-task are essential, along with a strong understanding of how the agency operates, the services it provides to clients, and its strategic focus.

• Maintain and improve Noble’s financial strategy embodied in the planning, budgeting, and forecasting process.
• Create, oversee and present monthly financial reports and analysis to senior leadership.
• In concert with the COO and department heads, manage the process of preparing, maintaining, and updating the annual corporate budget and financial reports, including weekly cash flow, monthly forecast updates, monthly and annual income statements, and ad hoc reports as requested.
• Responsible for Noble’s books of accounts.
• Create, maintain and improve policies, procedures and SOPs that ensure the company operates efficiently and effectively from a financial perspective, and complies with relevant standards.
• Recommend new platforms and technologies for the finance function that create efficiency and reduce costs across all areas, including enhancing the sophistication of the company’s management reporting capabilities.
• Oversee all journal entries and reconciliations and assure timely and accurate monthly, quarterly, and annual closes.
• Review active projects and create project reports to identify opportunities to recognize earned revenue, close projects, and reforecast as needed. Alert senior management to projects that are behind schedule and collaborate with the account management team to adjust forecasts.
• Train, oversee, mentor and manage direct reports, including processing and reconciling accounts payable, accounts receivable, credit cards, banking, journaling, payroll processing, reconciliations, and related activities; oversee client media accounts and ensure accurate invoice payments and reconciliations by client.
• Oversee corporate credit card accounts to ensure available credit and authorize new cards when appropriate.
• Review and approve all subcontractor agreements, ensure subcontractors meet Noble business qualifications, track change orders, setup, verify work completion and invoice receipt, align subcontractor and client payments, and oversee year-end 1099 processes.
• Develop effective working relationships with external banking, tax, insurance and legal professionals to ensure coverages, reports, payments, applications, claims and filings are correct and timely.
• Leverage our ERP (Workamajig) to track and report on data relevant to projects, potential sales, labor rates, and employee utilization.

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or another business-related field or equivalent experience. An MBA is an advantage.
• At least 8 years of progressively responsible accounting/finance experience in mid-sized privately held businesses,…