Vice President and Controller

• A disciplined, documented monthly close delivered on a published calendar across all entities, with close timeliness improving measurably against the current baseline.
• A GAAP-compliant accurate monthly reporting package—consolidated financials, business-line results, and budget-to-actual—delivered on schedule in coordination with the FP&A group to management and the Board, helping key leaders make real-time decisions.
• A high-performing, resilient accounting team, mentoring talent and fostering a culture of accountability, fun, accuracy, and continuous improvement, with defined roles, documented procedures, and no single-person dependencies in critical processes, and an operational framework that runs seamlessly without executive intervention.
• Streamlined accounting workflows and a scalable accounting infrastructure capable of supporting the Company's growth.
• Enhancements, automation, and efficiency gains for the Company's new ERP, and maximization of the utilization of NetSuite and integrated financial software, while becoming and serving as an internal super-user and systems owner.
• A strong, clear, accurate 13-week rolling cash flow forecast and strong treasury operations, including bank account architecture, cash concentration, and lender relationship management.
• Strong company-wide policies, controls, and procedures including revenue recognition, royalty accounting, capitalization, and expense management.

Controllership & Close

• Own the monthly close process, calendar, and sequence of work across all entities, ensuring timely and accurate reporting; drive accountability and continuously improve close timeliness and accuracy toward best-in-class benchmarks.
• Maintain GAAP-compliant books across a growing portfolio of operating companies with strong internal controls and documentation.
• Oversee daily accounting operations and ledgers: general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, fixed assets, inventory, cost accounting, revenue accounting, cost of goods sold, intercompany eliminations, and cash management.
• Coordinate with external auditors and tax professionals for timely completion of annual audits and nonprofit filings; maintain audit readiness and tax compliance at all times.
• Evolve the chart of accounts to support consistent reporting, scalability, and management visibility across all operating entities, and implement accounting best practices across the finance organization.
• For any future acquisitions, lead all purchase accounting work streams, including closing balance sheets, opening balance sheets, purchase price allocation (ASC 805), and goodwill/intangible recognition.

Financial Reporting to Leaders and Board

• Close the books and deliver complete, validated consolidated, business line, and entity-level actuals into NSPB on the published close calendar, so that FP&A can build the management and Board reporting layer.
• Oversee variance analysis as a close control: review actual-to-prior-period and actual-to-budget movement to identify duplicate entries, missing or overstated accruals, misclassified transactions, and unsupported balances, and resolve them before the ledger is closed.
• Produce the consolidated financial statements and supporting schedules that form the financial basis of the Board package, and partner with FP&A on assembling and reviewing the final package before it goes to the CFO.
• Own fund accounting across the exempt entities: net asset classification and fund-level ledger segmentation within NetSuite, interfund transfers and releases from restriction, and functional expense allocation and the related statement of functional expenses.
• Own and enhance the 13-week rolling cash flow forecast to deliver accurate and insightful reports for forecasting.

Team Leadership

• Recruit, mentor, and develop a high-performing accounting team as the business scales in the US and UK; define roles, responsibilities, and career paths for direct reports with adequate cross-training between roles.
• Partner with the CFO to design the long-term finance and accounting organizational structure aligned to the Company's growth trajectory.
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, fun, and continuous improvement within the accounting function.

Technical Accounting & Acquisition Integration

• Apply expertise in revenue recognition (ASC 606), lease accounting (ASC 842), and other relevant technical standards across the platform.
• Ensure revenue recognition aligns with contractual terms/obligations and incoterms.
• Serve as the expert in technical accounting issues in current operations and at any future acquired companies, including cash-to-accrual conversions and revenue normalization.
• Partner with external advisors and the CFO for valuations, working capital true-ups, and rep and warranty compliance.
• Oversee foreign entity accounting for the UK subsidiary: functional currency determination and translation, intercompany settlements.

Author and Artist Royalties and Reserves

• Oversee royalty accounting.