Client Accounting Controller

Crown is looking for a detail-oriented Client Accounting Controller to oversee the monthly close, accounting review, and financial reporting process across multiple client accounts.

This role is responsible for managing the accounting team, enforcing month-end close discipline, reviewing financial statements before client delivery, and making sure each client’s books are closed accurately and consistently by the 10th to 13th of each month.

The ideal candidate is not just a bookkeeper or accountant. This person should be able to supervise accounting work, identify errors, question unusual activity, improve close processes, and ensure that every client receives a clean, review-ready financial package each month.

This role will support 3 to 4 client accounts initially and will grow into a key controller-level resource within Crown’s client service model.

Core Responsibilities:

Month-End Close Management
*Own and manage the month-end close process across 3 to 4 client accounts
*Ensure each client’s books are closed by the agreed deadline, generally between the 10th and 13th of each month
*Maintain and enforce a standardized month-end close checklist across all clients
*Track close status, open items, blockers, owner assignments, and deadlines
*Coordinate with bookkeepers, accountants, and client-facing team members to keep the close moving
*Identify where estimates, accruals, or client follow-ups are needed to keep the close process on schedule
*Prevent the team from waiting passively on missing information when reasonable estimates or documented assumptions can be used

Review and Quality Control
*Review reconciliations, journal entries, accruals, deferrals, payroll entries, revenue classifications, and balance sheet accounts
*Review monthly financial statements before they are sent to clients
*Identify unusual transactions, classification errors, missing accruals, duplicate entries, and inconsistent account treatment
*Make sure financial packages are accurate, complete, and client-ready
*Prepare or review red-flag notes before client delivery
*Ensure the team does not simply post entries based on prior-month treatment without questioning whether the classification still makes sense


Client Reporting Packages
*Help standardize monthly financial statement packages across clients
*Ensure reporting packages include the correct financial statements, variance explanations, schedules, and supporting notes
*Work with Crown leadership to improve the format, structure, and consistency of monthly reporting
*Make sure each package is easy to review, easy to explain, and consistent with Crown’s standards
*Support client-specific reporting needs while maintaining a disciplined core close process


Team Supervision
*Manage and review the work of bookkeepers and accounting staff
*Assign close tasks and monitor completion
*Train team members on accounting standards, client-specific procedures, and Crown’s close process
*Provide feedback when work is incomplete, inaccurate, or not review-ready
*Escalate recurring performance or quality issues
*Help build a culture of ownership, review discipline, and attention to detail


Process Improvement
*Build and improve close checklists, review procedures, account reconciliation templates, and reporting workflows
*Standardize how Crown handles recurring close areas such as revenue, deferred revenue, accruals, payroll, AP, AR, prepaid expenses, loans, intercompany activity, and unusual transactions
*Identify recurring bottlenecks and recommend process improvements
*Help transition Crown from client-by-client custom processes toward a more scalable accounting operating system


Preferred Experience
*Experience in an outsourced accounting, fractional CFO, bookkeeping, or client services environment
*Experience managing accounting delivery for multiple clients at the same time
*Experience building or enforcing close checklists
*Experience preparing monthly financial reporting packages
*Experience working with U.S.-based clients
*Experience with payroll, accruals, deferred revenue, and multi-entity accounting


Success in This Role Looks Like
*Client books are closed consistently by the 10th to 13th of each month
*Month-end close status is visible and actively managed
*Financial statements are reviewed before client delivery
*Errors are caught internally before clients catch them
*Bookkeepers and accountants know what they own and by when
*Close checklists are followed consistently across clients
*Reporting packages become more standardized and easier to review
*Crown leadership spends less time chasing basic accounting issues and more time on analysis, client strategy, and decision support