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Meltzer Hellrung
Meltzer Hellrung
11 – 50 Employees
B2BLegalSaaS
Meltzer Hellrung is a corporate immigration law firm serving employers, employees, and families through U.S. and global immigration services. Its work spans consular processing, I-9 and immigration compliance, and immigration litigation. The firm also develops Voyager®, a proprietary immigration management platform, and an in-house specialist platform to help employers build and manage corporate immigration programs with a focus on transparency, efficiency, and data-informed service.
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Senior Controller, Remote in India — Meltzer Hellrung

Lead accounting operations for Meltzer Hellrung’s immigration law firm and management services entity. Oversee close, reporting, cash forecasting, controls, and financial systems.

INIndia
$40,000 – $50,000 / year
RemoteFull-timeSeniorLeadEnglish RequiredController

Description

  • Lead accounting and finance operations for the law firm and its management services entity.
  • Maintain the general ledger, monthly close, reconciliations, financial statements, cash forecasts, and daily finance processes.
  • Design, document, execute, and test internal accounting controls.
  • Manage annual budgets, departmental input schedules, rolling forecasts, and budget-to-actual reporting.
  • Keep accounting records ready for compliance and coordinate with payroll, tax, audit, and other advisers.
  • Prepare and review monthly reconciliations for material balance-sheet accounts and resolve outstanding items.
  • Prepare monthly financial statements and partner reports with variance explanations, assumptions, balances, and risks.
  • Maintain 13-week cash forecasts and longer-term liquidity projections.
  • Maintain separate entity accounting and consolidated management reports, including intercompany balances and allocations.
  • Account for legal-service revenue, reimbursable costs, government filing fees, pass-through client charges, and trust and IOLTA balances.
  • Track accounts receivable aging, collections, accounts payable aging, payment controls, billing-to-cash reconciliations, and outstanding payments.
  • Manage the monthly close calendar, assign preparation and review duties, complete reconciliations and adjusting entries, and deliver statements on time.
  • Establish, monitor, and enforce financial policies and procedures.
  • Provide financial information to management, attorneys, and managing partners.
  • Create reports that help senior leaders and attorneys understand company finances.
  • Document procedures and track deliverables, owners, due dates, dependencies, and open issues.
  • Lead the accounting workstream for financial systems implementations, including workflow design, master data validation, integrations, testing, reconciliation, training, issue tracking, and post-launch controls.
  • Manage the general ledger, journal entries, accruals, account classifications, period-end adjustments, and the accuracy and completeness of accounting records.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in business, accounting, finance, or a related field.
  • At least seven years of progressively responsible accounting experience.
  • At least three recent years in a hands-on Controller or Accounting Manager role, directly responsible for close, the general ledger, reconciliations, financial statements, and staff review.
  • Advanced Excel skills, including multi-sheet financial models, linked schedules, lookup functions, pivot tables, formula auditing, and reconciling model outputs to source systems.
  • Experience improving accounting processes and implementing and testing accounting systems.
  • Hands-on QuickBooks Online experience with bank reconciliations, journal entries, account mapping, accounts receivable and payable, close, and reporting.
  • Recent accounting experience in professional services is required.
  • Law firm accounting experience is strongly preferred, including time and billing, work in progress, realization, revenue recognition, reimbursable versus pass-through amounts, and government filing fees.
  • Familiarity with trust and IOLTA accounting and multi-entity or MSO structures is strongly preferred.
  • Understanding of applicable laws and regulations.
  • Understanding of economic principles, financial markets, and banking.
  • Understanding of financial data analysis and reporting.
  • Ability to perform and supervise payroll, accounts payable and receivable, bank and credit-card reconciliations, account analysis, and cash forecasting.
  • Ability to meet a documented close calendar, prioritize competing deliverables, clearly identify incomplete work or unverified assumptions, and promptly escalate deadline or accuracy risks.
  • Ability to lead cross-functional accounting and systems projects with work plans, owners, milestones, test evidence, and documented handoffs.
  • Ability to explain financial information in clear business language to people at all levels.
  • Strong technical accounting judgment, attention to detail, disciplined reconciliation practices, and ability to explain the differences between net income, cash flow, and available liquidity.
  • A quiet, confidential workspace is required.
  • Availability for at least six hours between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. U.S. Central Time is required.

Benefits

  • Remote role open globally.
  • Flexible work hours.
  • Occasional evening, after-hours, or weekend work may be required.
  • Use of personal computing equipment, telephone, multifunction printer, and calculator.
  • Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable people with disabilities to perform the job’s essential functions.

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