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Bowdoin College

Associate Controller

🇺🇸 Hybrid - Brunswick, ME

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $106K - $116K

💻 Finance

🗓️ January 9th, 2026

GAAP

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Bowdoin College is hiring an Associate Controller. The Associate Controller leads financial accounting and reporting activities, supervises a team, and partners with senior leadership to ensure compliance with standards, support decision-making, and manage audits and financial close processes.

Highlights
  • Lead general ledger operations, financial close, reporting, and audit coordination.
  • Supervise and mentor a small team of accounting professionals.
  • Ensure compliance with GAAP, financial reporting standards, and internal control frameworks.
  • Coordinate year-end accounting close and prepare annual financial statements and audit schedules.
  • Collaborate with senior leadership and stakeholders for financial decision-making and strategic planning.
  • Prepare and review internal financial reports and respond to external information requests.
  • Identify process inefficiencies and recommend improvements to policies and procedures.
  • Required qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration or related field; CPA designation; minimum 5 years of financial accounting experience including 2 years supervisory experience.
  • Preferred: Master's degree and experience in public accounting, higher education or nonprofit environment.
  • Annual salary range: $106,000 - $116,000 with a comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, retirement plans, paid leave, and wellness perks.

Associate Controller Full Description

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If selected as a finalist, you will be required to submit information for three references, including name, email address, phone number and how you know the reference.
Posting Details
Posting Details
Title Associate Controller
Posting Number S01511JP
Department Controllers Office
Job Summary
The Associate Controller serves as the College’s senior accounting leader and principal partner to the Controller, with responsibility for overseeing all financial accounting and reporting activities. This role leads general ledger operations, financial close and reporting, audit coordination, and accounting policy implementation, ensuring accuracy, integrity, and compliance with applicable standards and regulations. The position supervises a team of financial analysts and works closely with senior leadership to support institutional decision-making.

Essential Functions:
  • Lead the College’s financial accounting and reporting functions, ensuring accuracy, integrity, and compliance with accounting principles and regulatory requirements. Stay current of emerging accounting standards, regulatory developments, and best practices in higher education finance.
  • Supervise and mentor a small team of accounting professionals, providing guidance, training, and professional development opportunities as needed.
  • Coordinate and oversee year end accounting close and preparation of annual financial statement and Uniform Guidance audit schedules. Work closely with the Controller to prepare annual financial statements and footnote disclosures.
  • Collaborate with internal stakeholders, including senior leadership, department heads, and budget managers, to support financial decision-making and strategic planning initiatives. Provide a high level of customer service to all campus constituents.
  • Coordinate and oversee year end accounting close and preparation of annual financial statement and Uniform Guidance audit schedules. Work closely with the Controller to prepare annual financial statements and footnote disclosures. Serve as primary liaison with independent auditors during audits.
  • Coordinate and oversee monthly and quarterly general ledger closing activities. Review and post monthly journal entries.
  • Prepare and/or review internal financial reports as needed. Respond to external requests for information, completing annual surveys and other requests as needed.
  • Work with the Controller and Director of Payroll and Accounts Payable to document policies and procedure. Identify process inefficiencies and internal control weaknesses and work effectively with Controller to recommend and implement improvements.
  • Periodic review of balance sheet reconciliations prepared by various members of Controller’s Office staff. Assist as needed to resolve outstanding items.


The hiring range for this position is expected to be: $106,000 – $116,000.


BENEFITS AND PERKS
Education/Skills Requirements
Required:
  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or related field.
  • CPA designation (does not need to be an active license in Maine).
  • Strong technical knowledge of GAAP, financial reporting standards, and internal control frameworks, with the ability to interpret and apply complex accounting principles and regulations.
  • Advanced reporting and audit skills; demonstrated understanding of complex accounting concepts.
  • Excellent analytical skills, attention to detail, and problem-solving abilities, with the capacity to analyze complex financial data and communicate findings effectively to diverse audiences.
  • Superior interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build and maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
  • Proven project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, meet deadlines, and drive results in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
  • Demonstrated ability to foster an inclusive and supportive work environment.

Preferred:
  • Master’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or related field.
Experience Requirements and/or Equivalents
Required:
  • Minimum of 5 years working in in financial accounting, reporting, and analysis.
  • At least 2 years of supervisory experience.
  • This position is subject to a criminal history background check and credit check.
  • Demonstrated leadership abilities, with a track record of effectively leading and developing teams, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and excellence.
Preferred:
  • Prior experience in public accounting, higher education, or nonprofit environment.

Applicants must meet the minimum qualifications in this posting to be considered for hire.
Standard Work Days and Hours
  • Monday – Friday, 8:30 am to 5:00 pm, or as scheduled with supervisor.
  • This is a full time, year round (1.00 FTE) exempt position requiring time commitment necessary to satisfactorily complete job requirements.
  • Occasional out of state travel may be required.
  • Position eligible for a hybrid schedule after 90 day evaluation.

We regret that Bowdoin College is unable to provide visa sponsorship for staff positions.

Employment at Bowdoin College is contingent upon satisfactory completion of applicable background checks including but not limited to: criminal records, educational verifications, driving records (when job-related), and/or credit history (when job related).
About Bowdoin
Bowdoin embraces diversity in all forms, and the College is home to talented students, faculty and staff—with a variety of racial, ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds; religious beliefs; and gender identities, among other factors.

We encourage applications from candidates committed to the support of an inclusive campus community and those who will enrich and contribute to the College’s multifaceted diversity. We value a community in which individuals of all backgrounds are warmly welcomed and encouraged to succeed.

Founded in 1794, Bowdoin has maintained its commitment to the liberal arts for well over 200 years. Bowdoin’s reputation as a preeminent liberal arts college rests on the excellence of its faculty, students, and staff; intimate size; strong sense of community; and connections to the people, history, and natural beauty of Maine.

Bowdoin’s campus is situated in a beautiful natural setting. Located in Brunswick, Maine, a town of approximately 20,000, the College is a short drive from the Maine coast, twenty-five miles from Portland and 120 miles from Boston.
Shift
Employment Category Full Time Year Round
FTE 1.00
Benefits Eligible Yes
Pay Type Salaried
Background Check Package Requirements Administrative Staff + Credit
Is driving a vehicle (e.g. Bowdoin vehicle or off road vehicle, rental car, personal car) an essential function of this job? No
Is a pre-placement physical required for this position? No
Posting Date 12/18/2025
Applications Accepted Until
Open Until Filled No
Type of Posting Internal/External
Special Instructions to Applicants
If selected as a finalist, you will be required to submit information for three references, including name, email address, phone number and how you know the reference.
EEO Information
Bowdoin College complies with applicable provisions of federal and state laws that prohibit unlawful discrimination in employment, admission, or access to its educational or extracurricular programs, activities, or facilities based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry and national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, age, marital status, place of birth, genetic predisposition, veteran status, or against qualified individuals with physical or mental disabilities on the basis of disability, or any other legally protected statuses.
Supplemental Questions

Required fields are indicated with an asterisk (*).

  1. * How did you hear about this position?
    • Indeed.com
    • Chronicle of Higher Education
    • Diverse Issues in Higher Ed
    • Facebook
    • Glassdoor
    • Google Search
    • HigherEdJobs.com
    • InsideHigherEd.com
    • LinkedIn
    • Twitter
    • MANP
    • Maine Job Link
    • LiveandWorkinMaine.com
    • Employee Referral
    • Bowdoin College Website
    • Radio Ad
    • TechMaine
    • NCAA
    • CASE
    • Other
  2. If you answered Employee Referral or Other, please specify here:

    (Open Ended Question)

Applicant Documents
Required Documents
  1. Resume / Curriculum Vitae
  2. Cover Letter

Optional Documents

 

Bowdoin College complies with applicable provisions of federal and state laws that prohibit unlawful discrimination in employment, admission, or access to its educational or extracurricular programs, activities, or facilities based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry and national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, age, marital status, place of birth, genetic predisposition, veteran status, or against qualified individuals with physical or mental disabilities on the basis of disability, or any other legally protected statuses.

Confidential arrangements will be made if you have a disability or require an accommodation in completing the application or in the interview process. Please notify Human Resources at (207) 725-3837 in advance so all necessary arrangements can be made confidentially.

Staff & Casual contact:
careers@bowdoin.edu
Faculty contact:
facultycareers@bowdoin.edu

(t)207-725-3837
216 Maine Street, Brunswick, ME 04011

 

Bowdoin College is a member of the Diversity Hiring Coalition of Maine, and Live and Work in Maine.

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