The Company
Alliance Markets & Vending is a founder-led, private equity-backed platform focused on building the leading national provider of vending, micro-markets, and breakroom solutions. Alliance partners with exceptional founders and operators to preserve what makes their businesses great – customer focus, entrepreneurial drive, and local relationships – while offering the resources, scale, and operational expertise to help them grow. Alliance offers a full selection of vending services, including micro-markets, full-line vending, office coffee, water coolers and ice, and break room supplies. In addition, they also offer top-to-bottom breakroom design and a corporate wellness program design. Alliance is a fast-paced, rapidly growing organization.
Alliance has grown significantly through 5 acquisitions over the past 3 months. Chicago-based Shore Capital is focused on investments within the Business Services, Healthcare, Food and Beverage, Industrials, and Real Estate industries. Shore targets investments in proven, successful private companies with superior management teams, stable cash flow, and significant growth potential, including organic growth and growth through industry consolidation. Shore has $13 billion in assets under management through various investment vehicles and is in the top 1% of returns among private equity firms.
The Role
With plans to accelerate the growth and profitability of the business, Alliance seeks to hire a Controller to build and lead the accounting function including all technical accounting, policies and procedures, audit compliance, and reporting, and the financial integration of acquired companies.
Experience & Requirements
• Functional Leadership. Provide overall leadership for the accounting function to support the organization’s growth and professionalization efforts. Manage day-to-day operations across core accounting functions, including billing, financial statement preparation, general ledger entries, payroll, AR/AP, and budgeting.
• Process, Policies, and Controls. Develop and implement effective systems, accounting policies and financial controls that comply with federal, state, and local standards. Manage and define accounting processes and coordinate cross-functional touchpoints with internal stakeholders. Identify areas for improvement in communication or tactical execution.
• Financial Reporting and Compliance. Direct and manage financial accounting activities both internal and externally in accordance with U.S. GAAP, Sarbanes-Oxley requirements, and best practices. Coordinate with external parties for annual audit, tax planning and compliance activities.
• Performance Management. Own the KPIs / performance metrics that will be used to manage the performance of the accounting organization based on leading practices. Establish financial and operating benchmarks, budgets, program monitoring, and reporting standards on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis.
• Organizational Leadership. Management and supervision of accounting operations, including the design of an organizational structure adequate for achieving the department’s goals and objectives.
• Decision Support. Partner with CFO/company leadership in development of operating benchmarks and budgets and implementation of corrective actions where required.
• Systems. Experience with legacy financial systems and migrating disparate systems into a common platform is highly valued.
