Controllership Project Specialist

Our Deloitte Finance Transformation team practices to help chief financial officers, controllers, and finance teams define and execute their finance and global business services agendas and strategies. You will work with leading-class teams and solutions, helping clients navigate challenging environments, market uncertainty, technology development, and regulatory considerations to unlock value. Your work may span strategy, operations, process design, and technology as we partner with clients to transform finance.

Work You'll Do

As a Project Delivery Specialist on the project, you will:

• Support clients in strengthening finance operations across controllership and treasury processes, with a focus on audit readiness, compliance, and reporting quality.
• Prepare and support quarterly and year-end financial reporting activities, including validating data, coordinating reporting inputs, and helping resolve reporting issues.
• Assist with audit readiness efforts by organizing support, responding to audit requests, tracking open items, and helping clients remediate documentation or control gaps.
• Perform account reconciliations, research variances, and drive discrepancy resolution to improve the accuracy and integrity of financial data.
• Support Treasury reporting activities, including preparation and review of reports, and help clients improve reporting timeliness and consistency.
• Evaluate existing finance and reporting processes to identify opportunities to strengthen documentation, improve controls visibility, and increase operational consistency.
• Develop process narratives, desktop procedures, control documentation, and other artifacts that enhance transparency and sustainability of finance operations.
• Collaborate with client stakeholders across finance, controllership, treasury, and audit teams to support issue resolution and implementation of process improvements.
• Use data, reporting outputs, and process observations to identify root causes of recurring issues and recommend practical improvements to compliance and close/reporting activities.
• Contribute to broader finance transformation initiatives that improve efficiency, reduce risk, and enhance the effectiveness of accounting, reporting, and treasury operations

The Team

Deloitte's Government & Public Services (GPS) practice - our people, ideas, technology and outcomes - is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.

Our Controllership and Treasury Transformation offering modernizes the finance function to support the evolving business objectives of the organization. We work with the CFO, CAO, controller, and treasurer to develop an efficient, high quality, data-driven, tech-enabled controllership and treasury function that empowers our clients to drive more value to their business partners and to their investors.

The Project Delivery Talent Model is designed for professionals with specialized skills that align to a current client need. Team members focus on delivering services to clients, without additional expectations related to business development or promotion. Their employment is tied to their role on a project, and they are eligible for a benefits package that is competitive for project delivery-focused professionals.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future
• Must be able to obtain and maintain the required Public Trust clearance for this role
• Active CPA
• 10+ years of relevant experience in finance transformation, controllership, accounting operations, treasury operations, or financial reporting.
• 5+ years' experience supporting audit readiness, audit response, or internal/external audit coordination.
• 5+ years' experience with quarterly or year-end reporting, account reconciliations, and issue resolution.
• 5+ years' experience analyzing financial data and identifying reporting discrepancies, control gaps, or operational improvement opportunities.
• Ability to travel 0-25%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve