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Controller, North America - Finance Transformation

🇺🇸 Natick, MA

🕑 Full-Time

💰 TBD

💻 Finance

🗓️ September 21st, 2025

SaaS

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MathWorks is hiring a Controller, North America - Finance Transformation. The role involves leading a finance team to optimize financial reporting, accounting, and analysis processes while driving technology-enabled transformation. The controller partners across the organization to support business transitions and improve financial planning and operational efficiency.

Highlights
  • Lead and mentor a finance team, fostering continuous improvement and growth.
  • Develop scalable models for financial reporting and data analysis.
  • Oversee monthly close-to-report process ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
  • Manage accounts payable operations with focus on technology and controls.
  • Collaborate on financial systems improvements and new software integration.
  • Lead financial planning aligning with organizational objectives.
  • Required qualifications: Bachelor's degree, 7 years experience, 2 years management experience, authorized to work in the US without restrictions.
  • Preferred qualifications: Experience in public accounting or technology sector, CPA or CA license, multinational corporate experience.
  • Strong communication skills and ability to engage stakeholders at all levels.
  • Familiarity with ERP systems such as Oracle and their application in financial processes.

Controller, North America - Finance Transformation Full Description

Controller, North America - Finance Transformation


Job Summary
Are you a visionary leader with a passion for financial excellence and innovation? Do you excel at partnering with stakeholders across an organization to address key business challenges, optimize processes, and leverage technology? Join our dynamic team at MathWorks as the North America Controller and play a pivotal role in shaping our financial future! 

This role requires a forward-thinking leader who can analyze complex data, embrace technology, and drive transformative change throughout our finance workflows. The ideal candidate will excel at partnering across the organization and building a robust team that blends financial analysis with accounting expertise. 

Responsibilities
Leadership & team development: 
  • Lead, inspire, and mentor a talented team of finance professionals, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and professional growth. 
  • Develop scalable and innovative models to support recurring financial reporting and data analysis, enabling informed business decisions. 
  • Build and scale a team capable of analyzing expense data to support company growth and strategic decision-making. 
  • Foster a culture of business partnering to collaboratively solve complex problems. 

Financial reporting, operational accounting & analysis: 
  • Oversee and ensure the integrity of the monthly close-to-report process, delivering timely and accurate consolidated financial information. Continuously evolve and enhance financial reporting, ensuring alignment with current and future business priorities and a focus on controls. 
  • Provide support for complex accounting issues, as needed, related to business transactions or changes to accounting standards.  
  • Partner with teams to support the business transition to term and SaaS offerings, analyzing the implications to internal systems and processes 
  • Collaborate across departments to use financial and non-financial data for insightful decision-making, ensuring alignment with strategic goals. 
  • Manage accounts payable operations, leveraging technology to optimize efficiency while maintaining a focus on controls and risk mitigation. 

Technology and process optimization: 
  • Collaborate with the Financial Systems Team and others to identify and implement innovative workflow improvements, driving efficiency and accuracy. 
  • Champion new software and integration needs to support ongoing improvements using data for reporting 

Financial Planning: 
  • Manage the financial planning processes, aligning financial goals with organizational objectives.   
  • Develop and leverage financial models to illustrate the impact of changing business decisions on the financial forecast throughout the year. 

Minimum Qualifications
  • A bachelor's degree and 7 years of professional work experience (or equivalent experience) is required. 2 years management experience is required.
  • Visa sponsorship will not be provided for this position.
  • Candidates for this position must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis for any employer without restriction.

Additional Qualifications
  • Experience in public accounting and/or the technology sector.
  • Proven management experience leading professional-level staff.
  • CPA or CA license.
  • Experience working in a multi-national corporate environment.
  • Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to influence and engage stakeholders at all organizational levels.
  • A collaborative mindset with a willingness to partner and iterate to support effective decision-making.
  • Familiarity with ERP systems such as Oracle, with a strong understanding of their application in financial processes.