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Director of Finance And Accounting Jobs in New York City Metropolitan Area at Connect Search, LLC
Title: Director of Finance And Accounting
Company: Connect Search, LLC
Location: New York City Metropolitan Area
About the Company
The Director of Finance & Accounting will own all core finance and accounting functions — tax, audit, treasury/banking, financial reporting, and FP&A — while also functioning as a true working manager: hands-on with the close process and journal entries, not purely an overseer.
About the Role
Our client is a high-growth, private-equity backed organization utilizing high-volume, multi-system technology platforms. This is a hands-on, "doer" role as well as a leader in the organization.
Responsibilities
- Accounting & Financial Operations (~40% of time)
- Own the monthly and period-end close process, with direct, hands-on involvement in journal entries (close activities represent roughly 20% of overall time)
- Maintain the integrity of the company's books and records in NetSuite
- Manage banking relationships and day-to-day bank transaction activity
- Oversee tax and audit functions
- Build and strengthen internal controls across a very high-volume transaction environment
- Develop deep expertise in the company's proprietary core operating platform and enterprise systems to ensure clean data flow
FP&A (~30% of time)
- Build and present clear, basic financial and KPI reporting that supports how the CEO wants to run the business
- Translate financial data into a clear, digestible narrative for leadership and the ownership group ("tell the story")
- Support budgeting, forecasting, and ad hoc financial analysis
- Business Partnering, People Management & Projects (~30% of time)
- Serve as a key finance partner to the CEO and functional leadership across Operations, Technology, and IT
- Manage, mentor, and develop a team of 5
- Lead ad hoc projects as the business scales and matures
Qualifications
- 12–15 years of progressive accounting/finance experience
- Public accounting experience strongly preferred; CPA highly preferred
- Strong technical accounting foundation, with experience owning close, audit, and tax in a standalone or near-standalone capacity
- Experience in high-transaction-volume industries (FinTech, payments/credit card processing, or similar) strongly preferred
- Hands-on experience with NetSuite preferred
- Prior experience in a private equity-backed or sponsor-owned company a plus
Required Skills
- A genuine "doer" — comfortable in the details of the close and daily accounting, not just reviewing others' work
- Inquisitive and analytical; willing to dig into systems and transaction-level data until truly expert in how the business works
- Strong executive presence and communication skills; able to confidently and credibly discuss financial performance and KPIs with a CEO who will challenge and probe
- Able to flex between high-level financial storytelling and detailed, in-the-weeds accounting work
- Collaborative — comfortable supporting and partnering with VP-level leaders across Systems, Mobile, and IT
