VP Corporate Controller | Greater Tampa Bay area | Competitive Compensation Package

This is a transformational leadership opportunity for a seasoned Controller ready to take the reins of a large, complex accounting organization and fundamentally reshape how it operates. As the VP Corporate Controller at a PE-backed organization, you will oversee a large accounting team across corporate, shared services, and operational finance — leading not just the day-to-day function but the long-term vision for what world-class controllership looks like at scale. You will report directly to the CFO and serve as a trusted strategic advisor, bringing both the hands-on technical credibility to get into the details and the executive presence to influence the organization at the highest levels. The mandate here is clear: modernize processes, consolidate functions, preserve institutional knowledge, and build a data-driven, technology-forward accounting culture that can support an ambitious growth agenda. This is not a caretaker role — it is a builder's role, with the scope, resources, and leadership support to drive meaningful and lasting change. For a proven controllership leader with strong SOX and internal controls credentials, multi-entity experience, and a genuine bias toward process transformation, the opportunity to make your mark here is substantial. If you are ready to lead at this level and thrive in a high-accountability, high-reward environment, this role deserves your attention.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee accurate and compliant financial reporting across the full record-to-report cycle, including intercompany accounting, fixed assets, accruals, joint ventures, subsidiaries, payroll, and inventory.
• Lead the month and quarter-end close process, financial consolidation, and production of financial statements across multiple entities and reporting standards.
• Manage quarterly and annual external reporting obligations and serve as the primary point of contact for the external audit process — including auditor relationships, financial statement preparation, and fee negotiation.
• Research and document technical accounting matters; educate executive leadership and the accounting team on policy application and evolving standards.
• Design, implement, monitor, and test internal controls across the organization; identify, assess, and proactively mitigate risks.
• Define clear approval matrices and decision guidelines for accounting matters including write-offs, bad debt, and tax provisions.
• Own the processes by which financial data is created, transformed, governed, and transferred — maintaining rigorous data extraction and transfer controls throughout.
• Partner with Internal Audit, Tax, and Treasury to align on controls, analytics, and shared processes.
• Champion automation, technology adoption, and process improvement initiatives to reduce manual effort, increase reporting speed, and elevate accuracy across the function.
• Establish higher-frequency financial validation processes that move the organization toward near-real-time reporting capability.
• Determine the right operating model for the controllership function — evaluating centralized, decentralized, shared services, and outsourced models — and drive implementation.
• Manage the chart of accounts and GL dimensionality to enable granular, flexible reporting; maintain data governance standards in partnership with upstream functions.
• Lead and develop large team across corporate, shared services, and operational finance, with approximately five direct reports.
• Redefine the vision of the controllership function, fostering a culture of accountability, data discipline, and continuous improvement.
• Oversee talent management and development plans that build high-performing accounting and finance capability for the long term.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to the CFO on financial health, strategy, and organizational effectiveness.

Requirements

• Proven VP or Corporate Controller-level leadership experience in a PE-backed environment — you understand what private equity expects and how to deliver it.
• Experience at a larger, complex organization with multi-site and multi-entity operations; operational finance exposure a strong plus.
• Strong US GAAP technical accounting knowledge with the ability to research, document, and communicate complex accounting matters.
• Experience managing large accounting teams across multiple functions and locations.
• Strong SOX and internal controls experience; demonstrated ability to build and sustain a rigorous controls environment.
• Experience leading meaningful process improvement and automation initiatives with measurable outcomes.
• Financial consolidation and multi-entity reporting expertise.
• Hands-on doer and strategic thinker in equal measure — this role requires both.
• Fully onsite availability five days per week
• Familiarity with large-scale ERP systems in a complex operational environment.
• Experience with shared services or outsourced accounting operating models.
• ESG reporting exposure.

Why you'll love working here

• A direct reporting relationship to a CFO who is collaborative, decisive, and actively invested in building a best-in-class finance organization.
• The scope and resources to modernize an entire accounting function — automation, operating model design, talent development, and technology — with leadership support behind you.
• A PE-backed environment with the financial discipline, growth ambition, and strategic urgency that keeps high performers engaged and rewarded.
• Significant compensation upside — market-rate base salary plus a bonus target of approximately 30%, with relocation support available.
• A high-visibility platform where your decisions and your leadership will shape the trajectory of the accounting organization for years to come.

At Taylor White, we specialize in Accounting & Finance roles in Tampa Bay. Our industry knowledge, combined with our extensive recruiting experience, means we not only know what you're looking for — we know how to find it. For more information, please visit us at www.taylorwhite.com.

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