Vice President, Global Controller

Responsibilities

• Lead Harbor’s global accounting, financial reporting, and controllership activities across regions and entities.
• Ensure financial results are accurate, timely, well‑supported, and useful for leadership decision‑making.
• Oversee global close governance, including close calendars, reporting deliverables, reconciliations, review standards, and issue resolution.
• Maintain and evolve accounting policies, reporting practices, and documentation to support consistency across the global business.
• Provide guidance on complex accounting matters, including revenue recognition, accruals, commissions, leases, intercompany activity, acquisitions, and other significant transactions.
• Continue to strengthen scalable controls across key accounting and reporting processes.
• Support a consistent approach to documentation, approvals, reconciliations, reviews, and audit support.
• Partner with external auditors and advisors on accounting, reporting, controls, and technical accounting matters.
• Partner with external tax advisors to ensure compliance with applicable federal, state, local, and international tax requirements while identifying opportunities to reduce tax exposure and improve tax efficiency.
• Ensure the organization is well‑prepared for audit and compliance requirements through proactive planning and strong underlying support.
• Balance control discipline with a practical, business‑oriented approach that supports efficiency and collaboration.
• Partner with Finance leaders and regional teams to ensure accounting activities are coordinated effectively across close, reporting, AR, AP, billing, payroll accounting, intercompany, and statutory requirements.
• Identify opportunities to simplify processes, improve handoffs, reduce manual work, and increase consistency across teams and geographies.
• Support system, process, and reporting improvements that make Finance more efficient, reliable, and scalable.
• Lead and optimize accounting processes within NetSuite, Harbor’s existing ERP system, ensuring effective use of system capabilities, data integrity, and scalable reporting processes.
• Lead, coach, and develop accounting and financial reporting team members across functions and regions.
• Build strong relationships across Finance and the business, creating trust through responsiveness, accuracy, sound judgment, and practical problem‑solving.
• Foster a supportive, collaborative, and accountable team culture.
• Support M&A diligence and integration activities, including accounting policy alignment, opening balance sheets, systems integration, close process integration, intercompany setup, and control considerations.
• Support acquisition integration activities, including accounting process alignment, ERP/reporting integration, opening balance sheet review, purchase accounting support, and implementation of Harbor financial controls and reporting standards.
• Translate accounting, controls, and reporting topics into clear, practical recommendations for Finance and business leaders.

Requirements

• Significant accounting, financial reporting, and controllership experience in a global, multi‑entity organization.
• Experience leading financial reporting, close governance, audit, reconciliations, accounting policy, controls, and accounting operations.
• Strong technical accounting knowledge and ability to evaluate and document complex accounting matters.
• Proven track record of successfully leading, developing, and organizing accounting or financial reporting teams.
• Strong understanding of ERP systems, accounting data flows, close management, reporting processes, and internal controls.
• Strong judgment, attention to detail, and ability to balance technical accuracy with business needs.
• Collaborative leadership style with the ability to influence through partnership, clarity, and trust.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to partner with senior Finance leaders, auditors, external advisors, systems teams, and cross‑functional stakeholders.
• Professional accounting qualifications, such as CPA, CA, ACCA, or equivalent experience.
• Experience in a private equity‑backed, acquisitive, SaaS, professional services, or global business environment (preferred).
• Experience supporting M&A diligence and integration (preferred).
• Experience with US, Canadian, and UK accounting, statutory reporting, or multi‑jurisdictional reporting environments (preferred).
• Experience helping a Finance function scale through improved processes, systems, controls, and team development (preferred).
• Experience with NetSuite strongly preferred; ability to leverage an existing ERP environment to improve accounting operations, reporting, controls, and scalability (preferred).

Core Competencies

Demonstrates extensive expertise in global accounting, financial reporting, and controllership, with a strong focus on compliance, process improvement, and team leadership. Proven ability to manage complex accounting matters and enhance operational efficiency through effective use of ERP systems like NetSuite.