Senior Vice President, Accounting & Controllership

The role

The Senior Vice President, Accounting & Controllership will lead and evolve the company's global accounting, financial reporting, and controllership function. This role ensures the accuracy and integrity of financial results across the global business.

What you will do

• Lead global accounting, financial reporting, and controllership activities.
• Ensure financial results are accurate, timely, and useful for decision-making.
• Oversee global close governance, reporting deliverables, and reconciliations.
• Maintain and evolve accounting policies and reporting practices.
• Provide guidance on complex accounting matters.
• Strengthen scalable controls across accounting and reporting processes.
• Partner with external auditors and tax advisors.
• Coordinate accounting activities including AR, AP, billing, payroll, and statutory requirements.
• Optimize accounting processes within NetSuite.
• Lead, coach, and develop accounting and financial reporting team members.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, Finance or business-related field.
• Actively licensed CPA.
• Experience in a private equity-backed, acquisitive, SaaS, professional services, or global business environment.
• 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.
• Prior experience managing treasury and tax in a multi geography environment.
• 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.

Nice to have

• Minimum 12+years of experience in accounting, preferably with companies having $200M+ revenues
• International experience – working with global teams in an offshore model
• Experience supporting M&A diligence and integration.
• Experience with US, Canadian, and UK accounting, statutory reporting, or multi-jurisdictional reporting environments.
• Experience helping a Finance function scale through improved processes, systems, controls, and team development.
• Experience with NetSuite strongly preferred

About the company

Harbor is a provider of expert services across strategy, legal technology, operations, and intelligence. Their globally integrated team of 900+ specialists works with law firms, corporations, and law departments.