LevelBlue reduces risk and builds lasting resilience so organizations can innovate and advance their mission with confidence. As the world’s most analyst-recognized and largest pure-play managed security services provider, LevelBlue elevates client outcomes that matter: stronger defense, faster response, and sustained business continuity. LevelBlue combines AI-powered security operations, advanced threat intelligence, and elite human expertise to provide the most comprehensive portfolio of strategic advisory, managed security, offensive security, and incident response services.

LevelBlue is seeking a senior finance executive to lead the global controllership function, stabilize and scale accounting operations, build a public-company-ready control environment, and create the financial reporting foundation required for accelerated growth, investor transparency, and future capital markets readiness.

Position Summary

The Senior Vice President, Global Controller will serve as the Company’s chief accounting officer equivalent and will be responsible for all global accounting operations, financial reporting, consolidation, technical accounting, accounting policy, internal controls, statutory reporting, audit readiness, and IPO readiness from a controllership perspective.

This leader will report directly to the Chief Financial Officer and will partner closely with FP&A, Treasury, Tax, Legal, IT, Sales Operations, HR, Procurement, and business leadership. The role requires a hands-on transformation-oriented executive who can both operate the current environment and build the scalable processes, systems, policies, and controls needed for a global public-company finance function.

The successful candidate will bring deep technical accounting expertise, proven public company and IPO readiness experience, global controllership leadership, and the ability to lead through ambiguity in a fast-moving private equity-backed environment.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Controllership Leadership

• Lead the global controllership organization, including corporate accounting, regional accounting, consolidation, technical accounting, revenue accounting, accounts payable, accounts receivable accounting, payroll accounting, statutory accounting, and related shared service activities.
• Establish a clear global controllership operating model with defined roles, responsibilities, ownership, escalation paths, and service expectations across corporate, regional, and shared service teams.
• Build a scalable accounting organization capable of supporting a global cybersecurity business with multiple business lines, legal entities, geographies, billing models, and acquisition histories.
• Serve as a senior finance leader and trusted advisor to the CFO, CEO, executive leadership team, audit committee, board, and external advisors on accounting, reporting, controls, and financial infrastructure matters.

IPO Readiness and Public Company Preparation

• Lead the controllership workstream for IPO readiness, including public-company financial reporting requirements, SEC reporting readiness, quarterly close discipline, SOX readiness, audit committee reporting, technical accounting governance, and control environment maturation.
• Develop and execute a roadmap to transition the Company from a private-company accounting environment to a public-company-ready finance function within the targeted IPO preparation timeline.
• Partner with Legal, FP&A, Tax, Treasury, HR, and external advisors to prepare for S-1 readiness, public-company disclosure requirements, segment reporting, equity compensation accounting, related-party disclosures, and other capital markets requirements.
• Establish the accounting policies, close calendar, disclosure controls, documentation standards, and review protocols required for external reporting rigor.

Close, Consolidation, and Financial Reporting

• Own the global monthly, quarterly, and annual close process, including close calendar governance, journal entry review, account reconciliations, intercompany accounting, consolidation, flux analysis, and management reporting support.
• Drive meaningful acceleration of the close process while improving accuracy, accountability, transparency, and auditability.
• Standardize close processes across legacy businesses, including LevelBlue, Trustwave, Cybereason, Alert Logic, and other acquired or related entities.
• Lead global consolidation and reporting across multiple legal entities, currencies, systems, and geographies.
• Improve the quality, timeliness, and reliability of financial statements and supporting schedules used by management, the board, lenders, investors, auditors, and external stakeholders.

Technical Accounting and Accounting Policy

• Own technical accounting conclusions and accounting policy development across the Company.
• Lead accounting assessment and documentation for complex areas including revenue recognition, multiple-element arrangements, software and SaaS accounting, commissions, stock-based compensation, debt, leases, business combinations, impairments, intercompany transactions, foreign currency, and restructuring activities.
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive global accounting policy manual aligned with U.S. GAAP and scalable for public-company reporting expectations.
• Establish a formal technical accounting governance process, including issue identification, research, memo preparation, review, approval, and ongoing policy compliance.
• Partner with commercial, legal, deal desk, sales operations, procurement, and FP&A teams to ensure new contracts, products, pricing structures, and transactions are evaluated appropriately from an accounting perspective.

Revenue Accounting, Billing, and Order-to-Cash Controls

• Provide executive oversight of revenue accounting and related controls across complex cybersecurity products, services, managed services, professional services, and recurring revenue arrangements.
• Partner with Sales Operations, Billing, IT, FP&A, and business leaders to strengthen contract-to-cash, billing, revenue recognition, customer master data, SKU/product mapping, and revenue reporting processes.
• Improve visibility, documentation, and controls over revenue streams that currently involve manual processes, multiple systems, legacy AT&T processes, acquired company systems, and evolving data architecture.
• Ensure the revenue accounting function is capable of supporting audit, investor reporting, IPO readiness, and future scale.

Audit, Controls, and SOX Readiness

• Own the relationship with external auditors for accounting, audit, and financial reporting matters.
• Lead the annual audit process and drive remediation of audit findings, control gaps, documentation gaps, and process deficiencies.
• Build a SOX-ready internal control environment, including process documentation, risk and control matrices, control design, control owner accountability, evidence standards, and remediation tracking.
• Partner with Internal Audit, Legal, IT, HR, Procurement, and business process owners to implement scalable controls across finance and key upstream processes.
• Create a culture of accountability, documentation, control consciousness, and continuous improvement across the finance organization.

Systems, Data, and Finance Transformation

• Partner with Finance Transformation, IT, FP&A, and business leadership to define and execute the accounting systems roadmap, including ERP consolidation, consolidation tools, close management tools, account reconciliation tools, billing systems, procurement systems, and data architecture.
• Serve as the controllership business owner for finance systems design, chart of accounts governance, legal entity structure, reporting dimensions, close automation, intercompany automation, and financial data integrity.
• Lead accounting process standardization and automation across record-to-report, procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, treasury accounting, payroll accounting, and financial reporting.
• Ensure system design decisions support public-company reporting, auditability, scalability, control requirements, and management reporting needs.

M&A, Integration, and Legal Entity Rationalization

• Support accounting and reporting aspects of acquisitions, integrations, purchase accounting, opening balance sheets, and post-close finance integration.
• Lead controllership integration efforts across acquired businesses to standardize accounting policies, close processes, systems, reporting, and controls.
• Partner with Tax, Legal, Treasury, and FP&A to rationalize legal entities, intercompany arrangements, statutory reporting requirements, and global compliance obligations.
• Ensure legacy businesses are integrated into a common controllership model without sacrificing financial control or reporting quality.

Team Leadership and Talent Development

• Assess, design, and build the global controllership organization needed for the Company’s next stage of growth.
• Recruit, develop, and retain high-caliber accounting, reporting, and technical accounting talent.
• Create a high-performance culture characterized by urgency, ownership, collaboration, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Provide clear leadership, coaching, structure, and prioritization to teams operating through significant change, resource constraints, and integration complexity.
• Develop succession plans and deepen organizational bench strength across corporate accounting, regional accounting, shared services, and technical accounting.

First 12-18 Month Priorities

• Stabilize the global close and reporting process, with clear ownership, standard timelines, improved reconciliations, and reliable consolidated financials.
• Build a public-company-ready controllership roadmap aligned to the Company’s IPO readiness timeline.
• Establish accounting policies, technical accounting governance, and documentation standards across the enterprise.
• Strengthen revenue accounting, billing controls, contract review, and order-to-cash accounting processes.
• Partner with IT and Finance Transformation to rationalize accounting systems, reporting structures, chart of accounts, and consolidation processes.
• Prepare the accounting organization for external audit rigor, SOX readiness, and audit committee expectations.
• Evaluate current talent, clarify the target operating model, fill critical leadership gaps, and reduce single points of failure.
• Develop a scalable controllership function capable of supporting acquisitions, global growth, investor reporting, and future public-company obligations.

Required Qualifications

• CPA required.
• 15+ years of progressive accounting and finance leadership experience, including senior controllership leadership in a complex global company.
• Public company experience required; IPO readiness, SEC reporting, SOX implementation, or capital markets preparation experience strongly preferred.
• Deep knowledge of U.S. GAAP, technical accounting, financial reporting, consolidation, internal controls, and audit requirements.
• Experience leading global accounting teams across multiple geographies, legal entities, currencies, and business models.
• Demonstrated experience transforming, scaling, or stabilizing accounting functions in high-growth, acquisitive, carve-out, or private equity-backed environments.
• Proven ability to lead close acceleration, accounting process standardization, control remediation, and finance systems transformation.
• Experience partnering with external auditors, audit committees, boards, executive teams, and external advisors.
• Strong understanding of ERP systems, consolidation tools, account reconciliation tools, close management tools, and finance data architecture.
• Ability to operate at both strategic and detailed levels, including willingness to dive into complex accounting, systems, process, and organizational issues when needed.

Preferred Qualifications

• Big 4 public accounting foundation preferred.
• Cybersecurity, software, SaaS, managed services, technology, telecommunications, or recurring revenue business model experience preferred.
• Experience with carve-outs, transition services agreements, acquisition integration, and complex post-merger finance environments preferred.
• Experience in private equity-backed companies or companies preparing for IPO preferred.
• Experience with NetSuite or multi-ERP consolidation environments preferred.

Leadership Attributes

• Transformation-oriented operator who can stabilize today while building for the future.
• High-integrity leader with strong judgment, technical credibility, and executive presence.
• Clear communicator who can explain complex accounting and control issues to non-accounting executives, board members, and investors.
• Hands-on, pragmatic, and willing to work through ambiguity without waiting for perfect information.
• Strong talent developer who can build trust, raise performance standards, and lead teams through change.
• Process-oriented and control-minded, but commercially practical and business-partner oriented.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, private equity-backed, acquisitive, global technology environment.

Reporting Relationship

The Senior Vice President, Global Controller will report directly to the Chief Financial Officer and will be a key member of the senior finance leadership team.

Compensation

Compensation will be competitive and commensurate with experience, including base salary, annual incentive opportunity, and long-term incentive participation as appropriate for a senior executive role.

Why Join LevelBlue?
At LevelBlue, you’re not just an employee—you’re part of a team making a real difference in the world of cybersecurity. We foster a culture of innovation and creativity where your contributions are valued, and you’ll have the support and resources to grow and thrive.

Benefits and Perks:

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) with employer matching.
• Generous paid time off and holidays.
• Flexible spending accounts and health savings accounts.
• Employee assistance programs.
• Training and development opportunities.
• Adoption assistance program.

This role is open to candidates legally authorized to work in the United States. At LevelBlue, we support flexible work and bring people together in person for key moments based on role, team, and business needs.

LevelBlue is committed to a culture of respect, inclusion, and equal opportunity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age, or any other status protected under applicable law.

To all agencies: Please do not contact LevelBlue employees outside of the Talent Acquisition team. LevelBlue’s policy is to only accept resumes from agencies through its approved agency process and with a valid agreement in place. Any resume submitted outside this process will be considered the property of LevelBlue, and no fee will be paid if a candidate is hired from such a submission.

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