Bright Horizons
Assistant Controller
🇺🇸 Hybrid - Newton, MA
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $120K - $135K
💻 Finance
🗓️ August 21st, 2025
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Bright Horizons is hiring an Assistant Controller to lead financial operations, ensuring accurate and timely reporting while managing a team of accounting professionals. The role includes overseeing lease accounting and fixed assets, driving process improvements, and collaborating cross-functionally to support financial integrity and strategic goals.
Highlights
- Lead worldwide accounting for leases under ASC 842 and oversee North America fixed asset accounting.
- Coordinate monthly and quarterly financial close processes including balance sheet reconciliations and variance analysis.
- Manage and mentor a team of three accounting professionals, aligning team goals with organizational strategy.
- Maintain compliance with GAAP, SEC regulations, internal policies, and Sarbanes-Oxley requirements.
- Collaborate with Operations, Finance personnel, clients, vendors, and auditors to provide accounting expertise.
- Identify and implement process improvements leveraging technology and automation.
- Required: Bachelor's degree in Accounting, 6+ years progressive accounting experience, 2+ years management experience.
- Preferred: CPA certification, proficiency in Excel, experience with ERPs (Workday preferred), and Costar knowledge a plus.
- Compensation ranges from $120,000 to $135,000 annually, plus eligibility for a 10% annual bonus and $15,000 in RSUs.
- Benefits include medical, dental, vision insurance, 401(k), life insurance, disability coverage, and tuition reimbursement.
Assistant Controller Full Description
Assistant Controller
Newton, Massachusetts, United States of America, 02459
Corporate
Full time
Step into a high-impact leadership role as an Assistant Controller at Bright Horizons, where your financial expertise drives clarity, strategy, and innovation. In this pivotal position, you’ll ensure the financial results of a distinct business area are not only accurate and complete but delivered with precision and timeliness. You’ll lead a talented team of Managers, Supervisors, and seasoned professionals—empowering them to excel while you independently navigate day-to-day operations and escalate key risks and opportunities to the Controller.
Beyond the numbers, you’ll be a strategic force—shaping short- and mid-term goals and spearheading initiatives that elevate financial systems, streamline processes, and strengthen internal controls. If you're ready to make a measurable difference in a mission-driven organization, this is your opportunity to lead with purpose and impact.
This is a hybrid position requiring 3 days onsite at our headquarters in Newton MA.
Bright Horizons is trusted by families and employers around the world for high-quality child care and early education, back-up care, and workplace education. We partner with some of the world’s best companies to provide services that help employees perform their best and support families to thrive both personally and professionally.
Responsibilities
- Financial Close and Reporting & Accuracy
- Responsible for worldwide accounting and SEC disclosures for leases under ASC 842. Also responsible for ensuring leases related liabilities are paid timely.
- Oversee North America fixed asset accounting, including capital vs expense decisions.
- Coordinate monthly and quarterly review processes, including balance sheet reconciliations and variance analysis and corrections.
- Monitor material areas of the trial balance, identifying and escalating risks and concerns.
- Ensure compliance with GAAP, SEC regulations, and internal policies. Ability to understand and research accounting concepts, including application of new or changing accounting standards.
- Maintain a strong internal control environment and support Sarbanes Oxley compliance.
- Ad hoc analysis and projects as require
- Team Leadership & Development
- Manage and mentor a team of three professionals, fostering accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Align team objectives with strategic goals set by the Company and Accounting Group.
- Set clear performance measurements and provide regular feedback and development opportunities.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Communicate regularly via Teams, email, and in-person with Operations and Finance Department personnel, clients and vendors, and internal and external auditors to provide accounting expertise and to answer questions and explain accounting practices.
- Build trust and credibility with internal stakeholders by serving as a reliable point of contact for financial matters.
- Process Improvement
- Identify and implement enhancements to improve efficiency, accuracy, and scalability.
- Leverage technology and automation to streamline reporting and analysis.
Minimum Qualification
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting - Required
- At least six plus (6+) years of progressive accounting experience including lease and fixed asset accounting.
- 2+ years previous management experience required.
Additional Job Requirements
- CPA preferred.
- Proficient in Excel.
- Experience and comfort working in ERPs. Workday experience preferred.
- Costar experience is a plus.
- Excellent organizational and communication skills and ability to work in deadline-oriented environment and prioritize effectively.
- Detail oriented, self-starter, and highly motivated.
Benefits:
Bright Horizons offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Life insurance
- Long-term and short-term disability insurance
- Tuition Reimbursement
Salary/Hourly Rate and Other Compensation Disclosures:
The annual starting salary for this position is between $120,000 - $135,000 annually. The pay range listed here is what Bright Horizons in good faith anticipates offering for this job opening. Actual compensation offers within this range will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education and training, certifications, geography, and other relevant business or organizational factors.
This position is also eligible for an annual 10% bonus and $15,000 in RSUs.Compensation: $120,000-$135,000
Life at Bright Horizons:
Our people are the heart of our company. Because we’re as committed to our own employees as we are to the children, families, and clients we serve, our collaborative workplaces are designed to grow careers and support personal lives. Come build a brighter future with us.
Bright Horizons provides equal opportunity in all aspects of employment and does not discriminate against any individual on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, national origin, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or local law. Bright Horizons complies with the laws and regulations described in the following federal government resources: Know Your Rights, Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA).
If you require assistance or a reasonable accommodation in completing these application materials or any aspect of the application and hiring process, please contact the recruitment helpdesk at 855-877-6866 or bhrecruit@brighthorizons.com. Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.
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