VP, Global Controller Full Time NEW

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About Avid

Avid Technology is the global leader in media technology solutions, powering the creation of the most listened-to, most watched, and most loved content in the world. Avid’s industry-leading hardware and software solutions are used by the world’s top creative professionals — from Hollywood studios and major broadcasters to independent artists and musicians — across audio and video production, post-production, and media management.

Avid is a private-equity-backed company at an important inflection point. We are building a world-class Finance and Accounting organization, investing in the infrastructure required to support a complex global business, and positioning ourselves for long-term growth. The Global Controller is a foundational hire in that build.

The opportunity

This is a senior accounting leadership role for an experienced controller who has operated at the intersection of technical accounting depth, operational rigor, and PE-backed reporting complexity. You will own the full accounting operation globally — the close process, the audit relationship, the compliance certificate, the technical accounting research function, and the team that executes across all of it.

You are joining at a moment when the accounting foundation needs to be rebuilt and strengthened. The close book requires a QC overhaul. The revenue recognition framework — including the 606-to-billings reconciliation, contract asset and deferred revenue bifurcation by product, and SSP carve methodology — requires an expert who can drive it to resolution. The lender compliance certificate needs an internal owner who can produce it without external support. These are active workstreams that need a strong operator from day one.

This role is for someone who has been in a broken or rebuilding accounting environment before and knows what to do first. If you have always inherited a clean, well-functioning accounting function and have never had to diagnose and fix one, this is not the right fit.

What You Will Own

Financial close & reporting

• Lead the full monthly, quarterly, and annual close process globally — with a hard close cadence, defined sign-off checkpoints, and a QC framework that ensures figures tie end-to-end before any number leaves the accounting team
• Rebuild the close book to eliminate manual maintenance, inconsistent formulas, and untied figures — establishing it as a reliable, system-driven source of truth for ARR, revenue, EBITDA, and cash flow
• Produce and review monthly and quarterly reporting packages for executive management, the PE sponsor, and external parties including detailed analytical reviews with clear variance narrative
• Own the Non-GAAP P&L for lender reporting — ensuring it reconciles correctly to the management P&L and that all addbacks are documented, supported, and consistent with the compliance certificate

Revenue recognition & technical accounting

• Own the 606-to-billings reconciliation — driving the bridge between ASC 606 GAAP recognized revenue, contract assets, deferred revenue, and actual billings to close consistently on a monthly basis
• Lead the SSP carve analysis — investigating and correcting historical allocation errors, pushing corrections into the historical dataset, and establishing a go-forward RevPro process that produces clean output
• Own deferred revenue bifurcation by product — implementing systematic tracking in RevPro and establishing the go-forward process for recording deferred revenue and contract assets at the product level
• Manage staged billings — the full population, the runoff schedule, and the impact on the 606 reconciliation — with clear documentation and a confirmed go-forward process owner
• Research technical accounting matters and emerging guidance; assess business impact and communicate implications clearly to the CFO, FP&A, and commercial teams
• Partner with the CFO and Head of Tax on accounting and tax implications of complex business transactions

Lender & compliance reporting

• Own the quarterly compliance certificate process end to end — preparing the certificate, maintaining all supporting workpapers, calculating addback categories, and ensuring the Non-GAAP P&L ties correctly to lender reporting
• Serve as the primary internal contact for lender agents on all accounting and compliance matters — reducing dependence on external advisors for routine deliverables
• Manage the annual audit relationship with external auditors — serving as primary point of contact, coordinating all audit requests, and ensuring the audit is completed on schedule
• Lead statutory audit processes across EMEA, APAC, and other international jurisdictions, coordinating with regional accounting leads
• Oversee treasury activities including bank account management, signatory controls, and cash reporting — in close partnership with the Treasury function

Global accounting operations & team

• Lead, develop, and build the global accounting team — including US, EMEA, and APAC shared services — with a focus on capability development, process rigor, and retention of institutional knowledge
• Address key person risk across the accounting function — including documentation of processes currently held by specific individuals and structured knowledge transfer programs
• Partner with Revenue Operations and FP&A on order-to-cash process documentation, system touchpoints, and data quality at every handoff in the billing and recognition cycle
• Lead policy and procedure development; own the authority matrix for accounting-related approvals
• Drive system and process improvements including NetSuite optimization, RevPro process standardization, and close cycle time reduction — with a bias toward eliminating manual steps

Required

What we are looking for

• 15+ years of progressive accounting experience, with meaningful time in a public accounting firm (Big 4 strongly preferred) and at least one prior role as a corporate controller or assistant controller
• Experience as a controller in a PE-backed company — you have produced compliance certificates, worked directly with lender agents, and operated under an active maintenance covenant without leaning on a sponsor’s finance team
• Hands-on experience with ASC 606 in a multi-product, multi-revenue-model business — specifically the 606-to-billings reconciliation, contract asset treatment, deferred revenue management, and SSP allocation methodology; experience with RevPro or a comparable revenue recognition system is strongly preferred
• Demonstrated experience inheriting or rebuilding a broken or unreliable close process — not just running a stable one; you have diagnosed formula integrity failures, eliminated manual maintenance, and implemented a hard close with defined sign-off checkpoints
• Experience managing global accounting teams and multi-jurisdictional statutory audits, including EMEA entities and shared service models
• Strong technical accounting skills in US GAAP; ability to research complex matters, reach well-supported conclusions, and communicate them to non-accounting stakeholders
• NetSuite experience required; RevPro or comparable revenue recognition system strongly preferred
• Active CPA license strongly preferred; bachelor’s degree in accounting required

Strongly Preferred

• Experience managing a revenue recognition function through a 605-to-606 transition, including the systems, process, and data implications
• Experience managing staged billing programs — understanding how staged bills are set up, recognized, and reconciled, and their downstream impact on the billings-to-GAAP bridge
• Experience in a business with multiple simultaneous revenue models: subscription ARR, maintenance, perpetual license, professional services, and hardware — each with a different recognition pattern
• Experience managing an accounting function through an external quality review or close-process audit, including remediating identified gaps
• Familiarity with PE-level cost savings tracking, including actioned vs. unactioned savings, BTL accounting, and restructuring cost treatment

What To Expect

You are joining a well-known global business with a strong underlying financial profile and a team that is capable and committed. The accounting infrastructure needs to be rebuilt, and the CFO is looking for a controller who is energized by that work — someone who sees a close book that doesn’t tie as a problem to be solved, not a situation to be managed around.

You will have direct access to the CFO, a mandate to drive change, and a team that includes strong performers who need leadership and development. You will also walk into active workstreams — the 606 reconciliation, the SSP investigation, the compliance certificate process — that need an owner from day one.

Reporting structure & team

• Reports directly to the CFO
• Direct reports include the EMEA Director of Accounting, Director of Shared Services (APAC), Sr. Manager of Revenue Recognition, Global Assistant Controller, and Senior Manager of Treasury
• Works closely with the VP FP&A, Head of Tax, Revenue Operations, and the PE sponsor’s finance team

Pay Range $250,727 – $376,091 USD

The salary range shown reflects the company’s good faith full target range for this position at the time of posting. The company may update or modify this range at any time and endeavors to keep this posting current. Compensation decisions are based on factors including geographic location, experience, skills, education, and business needs. While the full range is posted for transparency, offers are typically made within the lower to middle portion of the range.

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you’ll enjoy your career with us!