Controller
Description
Since 2017, Flourish has been on a mission to help financial advisors evolve from holistic advice to holistic implementation to better serve their clients and grow their businesses. We focus on independent Registered Investment Advisors (RIAs), delivering financial products that advisors can’t easily access today through beautiful, scalable, and easy-to-use technology.
Today, we work with over 1,100 RIAs that collectively represent more than $2.6T in assets under management across two products: Flourish Cash and Flourish Lending. Headquartered in New York City, we are an independently-operating, wholly-owned subsidiary of MassMutual Life Insurance Company.
Read on if you are interested in joining a dynamic, highly-collaborative, rapidly-growing startup—backed by the support and stability of a Fortune 500 company.
About You
You are a highly strategic, data-driven, detail-oriented, and exceptionally organized accounting leader who thrives in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment. You anticipate needs, identify risks, and drive initiatives forward with minimal guidance. You bring financial discipline and clarity to operational execution and ensure the integrity of financial data across the organization.
You communicate effectively with cross-functional peers, auditors, and external stakeholders, and you know how to prioritize what truly warrants leadership attention. You actively use AI tools in your day-to-day work and are always looking for ways to automate and streamline accounting processes. You are excited to join Flourish at a pivotal stage, and are motivated by the prospect of building a scalable accounting function.
About the Role
Flourish is transitioning to a standalone, PE-backed organization. This is a hands-on, execution-focused Controller role to lead accounting operations and ensure financial integrity during a critical stage of growth and product evolution.
As the Controller, you will report directly to the CFO and oversee accounting, financial reporting, broker-dealer regulatory reporting, audit, tax, and compliance, while strengthening financial operations and supporting scalable growth. You’ll manage a Staff Accountant and work closely with the Financial Planning and Analysis Manager, who also reports to the CFO.
Principal Responsibilities
- Lead comprehensive accounting operations, including close, reporting, controls, and GAAP financial statement preparation
- Own regulatory financial reporting for Flourish Financial LLC (our FINRA-member broker-dealer) and other regulated entities, including net capital computations, FOCUS filings, annual audited financial statements, and other SEC/FINRA requirements, either directly as FINOP or by managing outsourced FINOP and compliance partners
- Manage audit readiness and the external auditor relationship
- Oversee implementation of new accounting standards
- Own KPI integrity of financial reporting and underlying accounting data
- Manage cash flow visibility and working capital reporting
- Manage the third-party tax service provider and all compliance filings across jurisdictions
- Partner with the Financial Planning and Analysis Manager to ensure budget, forecasts, and management reporting tie to the accounting records, and with the CEO, CRO, and leadership on reporting alignment
- Identify, quantify, and communicate business risks and opportunities, considering financial, compliance, and operational risk
- Lead projects with accounting and reporting requirements from planning through implementation
- Support carve-out efforts, TSA exit, and standalone readiness
- Drive operational efficiency by building scalable accounting infrastructure and tooling as needed (coordinating with third-party implementation firms) and automating and streamlining the close, reconciliations, reporting, and other workflows
- Hire, lead, and develop a Staff Accountant, and scale the accounting team as the business grows
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, and a professional accounting qualification
- FINRA Series 27 (FINOP) license, or direct experience in a business that owns a broker-dealer (or similarly regulated entity), including working with outsourced partners (e.g., FINOP, compliance) to meet regulatory requirements
- 10+ years of accounting experience in a financial services or fintech environment strongly preferred
- 3+ years of management experience motivating and directing a team of professional staff, including remote teams
- Advanced knowledge of SEC regulations and GAAP, with experience preparing and reviewing external financial statements (including FOCUS or XBRL reporting)
- Due to the nature of this position, as part of the background check process, candidates must be able to pass a fingerprint background check to qualify as a fingerprinted person under FINRA. For roles requiring registration, additional regulatory screenings may apply, including a review of Form U5 disclosures and other relevant licensing information.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master of Accounting degree and CPA
- Experience working in a PE environment
- Demonstrated use of AI tools (e.g., LLMs and AI-enabled ERP, close and reconciliation tools) to automate processes and improve efficiency
- Independent and self-motivated, yet collaborative
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent organizational skills and ability to prioritize and multitask; proactive, detail-oriented, and results-oriented
- Excellent critical thinking skills, using logic and reasoning to identify alternative solutions
- Ability to make accurate, independent decisions based on data
- Confident and positive executive presence and interpersonal skills
- Ability to understand the financial impact of decisions and balance them with business partner satisfaction
At Flourish, we focus on ensuring fair, equitable pay by providing competitive salaries, along with bonus and incentive opportunities and benefits for all employees.
Base Salary Range: $170,000 - $250,000 plus bonus
Disclosures:
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
Skills
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First Name, Last Name, Email, Phone, Resume/CV, Cover Letter
Short answers (4)
- LinkedIn Profile optional
- Website optional
- 5. (a) If you answered YES to the previous question, please list your family members employed by Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company or affiliates and your relation to them. optional
- 6. (a) If you answered YES to the previous question, please give details (including dates, locations, etc) below: optional
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- 1. Are you legally authorized to work in the United States?
- 2. Are you currently authorized to work in the United States without requiring sponsorship (for example, H-1B, TN, employer based permanent residency), either now or in the future?
- 3. Are you at least 18 years of age?
- 4. Were you employed by a third party providing services to MassMutual in the past 5 years? (incorrect information may affect your benefit eligibility)
- 5. The Company's anti-nepotism policy restricts the hiring of family members of an employee in certain situations. For purposes of the anti-nepotism policy, family members are defined to mean: (a) Your current or former spouse, civil union partner/recognized domestic partner, parents, siblings, children, stepchildren, halfsiblings, grandparents, grandchildren, stepparents and stepsiblings; (b) children-in-law, parents-in-law, siblings-in-law; (c) your parent's sibling's children, parent's siblings or first cousins, if they reside with you; and (d) any unrelated person who you both reside with and are in a relationship with. Do you have any family members employed by Massachusetts Mutual life Insurance Company or any affiliates, including any of the following affiliates? MassMutual International LLC, The MassMutual Trust Company, FSB, MassMutual Global Business Services India LLP, MassMutual Global Business Services Romania SRL, Haven Tech (HITPS), Great American (Glidepath), Barings, Flourish
- 6. Do not disclose erased or expunged convictions. The federal Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act prohibits insurance companies from employing certain convicted felons in the business of insurance, regardless of when the conviction occurred. Have you ever been convicted of a felony involving dishonesty or breach of trust? California applicants only: 'crime' excludes any conviction more than 2 years old for a marijuana-related offense.
- 7. By clicking submit, you attest that your application is accurate and complete.
- 8. Receipt of this application does not mean or imply that I will be employed.
- 9. The statements and information furnished by me to the Company, whether in this form or otherwise, are true and complete. I may be refused hire or discharged if at any time the Company discovers any falsification, omission or misrepresentation of fact by me.
- 10. I confirm I am not restricted by any restrictive covenant, non-solicitation provision or agreement not to compete which would impact my being employed or performing duties for the Company.
- 11. I understand that I may be required to sign an inventions and intellectual property, non-solicitation, confidentiality, code of ethics and/or business ethics agreement, as a condition of employment. I understand that if I am engaging in the Company's business I will be required to make and keep accurate regulatory and criminal disclosure information as a condition of employment.
- 12. I understand that employment with the Company is at will, for no fixed period of time. If hired, I will be free to resign at any time. Likewise, the Company will have the right to terminate my employment at any time with or without any reason or notice, except as specifically prohibited by law. No oral representation to the contrary has been made to me and I understand that no employee or representative of the company is authorized to make any such representation now or in the future.
- 13. I agree to conform to the rules, policies and procedures of the Company, including the Code of Conduct, which I acknowledge are subject to change at any time at the sole discretion of the Company.
- 14. (a) I have a close family member (spouse, spouse equivalent, dependent, parent, sibling) employed at or otherwise associated with the Company's outside audit firm (KPMG LLP).
- 14. (b) I was employed by the Company's outside audit firm in the past three years.
- 14. (c) I have a financial or business relationship or affiliation with the Company's outside audit firm or its members (partners, managers).
- 15. I understand that if employed, I will not engage in any outside activity that would create a conflict of interest with my MassMutual duties and will not engage in any personal sales activities, including maintaining or servicing a book of business.
- 16. I confirm that I have the necessary license(s) required for this role.