Agency Controller

Noble Studios is seeking a hands-on Controller with agency experience who will manage our small accounting team and personally handle our budgeting, financial analysis, reporting, and forecasting. This role makes strategic and financial recommendations to the leadership team, as well as oversees our external tax accountants and business insurance brokers.  Noble’s Controllerensures subcontractors are effectively managed and serves as our primary interface to tax departments in the cities and states where we have offices and employees. The position plays a key role in helping senior management create a strategic vision by both providing and developing data, KPI’s, and being proactive in recommending both revenue enhancement and cost reduction strategies. The position serves as a resource to the rest of the organization as well as maintaining the company’s financial single source to truth.

In addition to directly leading a small team, this is a hands-on, results oriented, and fully accountable position, serving the organization with needed data and ensuring Noble stays on track financially by creating and disseminating accurate and timely information and insightful recommendations. This position must create positive and effective dialogues with both the senior leadership team and all levels of staff. Attention to detail and the ability to multi-task are essential tools in this role as well as having a strong understanding of how the agency operates, the services it provides to clients and its strategic focus.

Primary Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve Noble’s financial strategy embodied in the planning, budgeting, and forecasting process.
• Create, oversee and present monthly financial reports and analysis to senior leadership.
• In concert with the COO and department heads, manage the process of preparing, maintaining, and updating the annual corporate budget and financial reports, including but not limited to weekly cash flow, monthly forecast updates, monthly and annual income statements, and ad hoc reports as requested.
• Responsible for Noble’s books of accounts.
• Create, maintain and improve policies, procedures and SOPs that ensure the company operates efficiently and effectively from a financial perspective, and complies with relevant standards.
• Recommend new platforms and technologies for the finance function that create efficiency and reduce costs across all areas, including enhancing the sophistication of the company’s management reporting capabilities.
• Oversee all journal entries and reconciliations and assure timely and accurate monthly, quarterly, and annual closes. 
• Review active projects and create project reports to find opportunities to recognize earned revenue, complete, close and cancel as needed. Alert senior management to projects that are behind schedule and work with the account management team to reforecast when necessary. 
• Train, oversee, mentor and manage direct reports, including processing and reconciling all accounts payable, accounts receivable, credit cards, banking, journaling, etc.; payroll processing, reconciliations, corrections and entries; benefits reconciliations, payments, reports and posting; managing client media accounts, including tracking, transferring funds, approving orders, ensuring accurate invoice payments, and reconciling by client.
• Oversee corporate credit card accounts to ensure available credit and authorize new cards, when appropriate.
• Review and approve all subcontractor agreements, ensure subcontractors meet Noble business qualifications, track change orders, set-up, verify work completion and verify invoice receipt, align subcontractor and client payments, and oversee the year-end 1099 process.
• Develop effective working relationships with and oversee external banking, tax, insurance and legal professionals to ensure coverages, reports, payments, applications, claims and filings are correct and timely.
• Leverage our ERP (Workamajig) track and report on data relevant to projects, potential sales, labor rates, employee utilization, etc.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or another business-related field or equivalent experience. An MBA is an advantage.
• At least 8 years of progressively responsible accounting/finance experience in mid-sized privately held businesses, ideally in an agency setting.
• At least 2 years of leadership experience, including managing at least one direct report and reporting directly to the c-suite.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate financial data and trends into actionable insights for leadership.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to motivate direct reports and inspire others to support financial processes.
• Solid understanding of budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis and reporting, as well as journaling, reconciliation, accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll processing, and banking.
• Strong familiarity with job costing, earned revenues, tax, insurance and subcontracting.
• Experience in an agency setting is strongly preferred, particularly if the agency used Workamajig.
• Strong sense of the importance of keeping confidential information confidential.
• Proven ability to create and improve business processes and systems that are both effective and efficient.
• Superb attention to detail and organization, with a track record of meeting business critical deadlines.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a dynamic and constantly changing company environment.

What’s in It for You

• The chance to work for an award-winning, industry-leading employer with some of the most innovative clients in the world (Travel Nevada, Visit Lake Tahoe, Yodlee and others).
• Dream big while staying local because we love our home turf!
• An exceptional benefits package, plus a workplace emphasis on ongoing learning and growth: guest speakers and workshops, in-depth roundtable discussions, and of course, the opportunity to learn from some of the smartest and coolest coworkers around.
• A see-it-to-believe-it time-off policy: two companywide paid weeks off every year (one week in July and another in December) when Noble closes its offices, plus 10 days of personal PTO and all paid company-observed holidays.
• The ability to work remotely or from home ideally near our headquarters location in Reno, Nevada.

If You’re Chosen

• You must pass Noble’s background, financial, DMV and reference checks, as well as provide documentation of your legal right to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.
• You must be able to work full-time during Noble’s core business hours of 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Pacific Time, Monday through Friday.
• You must be willing and able to be on-site regularly in either our Reno or Las Vegas office, as needed.
• You may need to qualify as someone who drives on behalf of Noble Studios, which requires a valid Nevada Driver’s License, 2+ years of driving experience, a clean driving record, and at least $100,000/$30,000 bodily injury and $100,000 property damage auto insurance coverage.

About Noble Studios

Noble Studios is a Nevada-grown creative digital performance marketing agency with offices in Reno, Las Vegas and Bristol, U.K., specializing in brand strategy, digital marketing strategies, web development, SEO, paid digital media, creative and content development and social media. Since 2003, the company has completed work for international brands such as Google, Disney, Travel Nevada, Tahiti Tourisme, Yosemite Mariposa County, Autodesk, Adobe, Genome Medical, Medcor and more. Noble has been honored to be recognized as one of Ad Age's “Best Places to Work 2024” and by Inc. as a “Best in Business – Advertising.” Noble Studios is an approved Google Partner and HubSpot Solutions Partner.