Controller
Robert Half Management Resources
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Job overview
The Interim Corporate Controller will work with accounting leaders across multiple business units to strengthen reporting quality, support accurate close activities, and promote consistent accounting practices. The role focuses on financial oversight in a multi-entity environment and is primarily remote, with occasional travel as needed. Sage Intacct experience is preferred but not required.
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Description
Our client in the Lower Fairfield, CT area has an immediate need for an Interim Corporate Controller. In this role, you will work closely with the accounting leaders across multiple business units to strengthen reporting quality, support accurate close activities, and promote consistent accounting practices. This opportunity is well suited for a hands-on, detail-oriented individual who can balance operational detail with broader financial oversight in a multi-entity environment. The position is primarily remote with occasional travel as needed.
Responsibilities:
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Review monthly financial submissions from operating units, evaluating statements, reconciliations, margin analysis, and supporting schedules for completeness and accuracy.
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Track the progress of close activities across multiple entities, identify timing or reporting risks, and help drive timely resolution of outstanding issues.
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Collaborate with accounting leaders to improve adherence to company accounting policies and elevate the overall quality of financial reporting.
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Standardize accounting approaches across brands by identifying process differences and helping implement practical, repeatable methods.
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Provide guidance and support to controllers and accounting staff while reinforcing accountability for day-to-day execution within each business unit.
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Oversee accounting activities for designated corporate and holding company entities, ensuring transactions are recorded correctly and within required timelines.
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Examine recurring accounting areas such as accounts payable, cash activity, reconciliations, and other monthly processes for assigned entities.
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Assess close documentation and account support, addressing gaps, unresolved reconciling items, and recurring balance sheet concerns.
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Strengthen internal controls and documentation standards while identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, accuracy, and consistency across workflows.
If you are interested in this Interim Controller position, please email your resume in a Word format to joseph.colagiacomo@roberthalf with the subject line: "Controller"
Requirements
10+ years of accounting experience, including leadership over month-end close, financial reporting, general ledger activity, and balance sheet reconciliations.
Sage Intacct experience preferred but not required
Robert Half is the world’s first and largest specialized talent solutions firm that connects highly qualified job seekers to opportunities at great companies. We offer contract, temporary and permanent placement solutions for finance and accounting, technology, marketing and creative, legal, and administrative and customer support roles.
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How this job compares
Set against the 749 open Controller jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$128–168K/yr300 salary ranges
- US median$55–79/hr26 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 12 open Controller jobs in Connecticut and 749 across the US. 6% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
- Robert Half (this employer)249 open
- CliftonLarsonAllen LLP29 open
- Compass Group, North America15 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience; Controller postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years at the median (600 postings).
- Education
- 391 of the 749 open Controller jobs (52%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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