Agency Controller

Noble Studios is seeking a hands-on Controller with agency experience who will manage our small accounting team and personally handle our budgeting, financial analysis, reporting, and forecasting. This role makes strategic and financial recommendations to the leadership team, as well as oversees our external tax accountants and business insurance brokers. Noble's Controllerensures subcontractors are effectively managed and serves as our primary interface to tax departments in the cities and states where we have offices and employees. The position plays a key role in helping senior management create a strategic vision by both providing and developing data, KPI's, and being proactive in recommending both revenue enhancement and cost reduction strategies. The position serves as a resource to the rest of the organization as well as maintaining the company's financial single source to truth.

In addition to directly leading a small team, this is a hands-on, results oriented, and fully accountable position, serving the organization with needed data and ensuring Noble stays on track financially by creating and disseminating accurate and timely information and insightful recommendations. This position must create positive and effective dialogues with both the senior leadership team and all levels of staff. Attention to detail and the ability to multi-task are essential tools in this role as well as having a strong understanding of how the agency operates, the services it provides to clients and its strategic focus.

• Maintain and improve Noble's financial strategy embodied in the planning, budgeting, and forecasting process.
• Create, oversee and present monthly financial reports and analysis to senior leadership.
• In concert with the COO and department heads, manage the process of preparing, maintaining, and updating the annual corporate budget and financial reports, including but not limited to weekly cash flow, monthly forecast updates, monthly and annual income statements, and ad hoc reports as requested.
• Responsible for Noble's books of accounts.
• Create, maintain and improve policies, procedures and SOPs that ensure the company operates efficiently and effectively from a financial perspective, and complies with relevant standards.
• Recommend new platforms and technologies for the finance function that create efficiency and reduce costs across all areas, including enhancing the sophistication of the company's management reporting capabilities.
• Oversee all journal entries and reconciliations and assure timely and accurate monthly, quarterly, and annual closes.
• Review active projects and create project reports to find opportunities to recognize earned revenue, complete, close and cancel as needed. Alert senior management to projects that are behind schedule and work with the