VP, Finance & Controllership

Banyan Software is the best permanent home for software businesses that serve specialized industries, their employees, and their customers. We are on a mission to acquire, build, and grow great companies worldwide, helping them modernize through shared AI expertise and operational discipline. The Banyan Software Foundation, endowed with $100 million in Banyan stock, leverages technology to build a greener and more equitable world. Banyan is Great Place to Work Certified, a five-time Inc. 5000 honoree, and a top 10 company on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Atlanta, Banyan operates more than 100 portfolio companies across North America, the UK, EU, and APAC. The Opportunity This is the operational core of our global Finance function. You will own the close, the consolidation, the audit, and the reporting rhythm that turn a growing portfolio of acquired software companies into a coherent whole. Banyan acquires vertical software businesses and holds them permanently. We don’t buy to flip. We buy to grow. That permanence shapes how we build Finance: it rewards investment in process, systems, and people that compound over years. You will inherit a function in motion, healthy and growing, and set the trajectory for the next layer of operational maturity across HQ and the operating companies. You will lead a team across Controllership, Global Payroll, and ERP & Reporting, partner closely with FP&A, Tax, and Treasury at HQ, and work directly with Finance Directors at the operating companies. Why Banyan A permanent-hold model changes how Finance is built. Most controllership leaders inherit a function being optimized for a sale or transition. Here, you’re building for the long arc: maturing close, consolidation, and reporting practices that compound with every acquisition we add. The work you do this year is still relevant five years from now. Real scale, real complexity, real velocity. Many legal entities globally. A growing collection of vertical software businesses, each with its own data and accounting nuances, rolling up into one coherent group. Acquisitions flow through the close on a regular cadence. Direct partnership with the CFO. You’ll operate as a thought partner, not a back-office function. The CFO is looking for someone who can translate the numbers into narrative, surface implications, and bring discipline to how Finance shows up across the group. What You Own The global close and consolidation cycle. Own the monthly close across HQ and operating companies under US GAAP. The current close runs about ten days; the working target is five. You will set the path to get there, holding integrity as the floor. The year-end audit. Manage the external audit relationship and deliver a cleanly run year-end. Coordinate audit asks across HQ and operating companies. Hold the function to a standard an auditor can lean into. Group-level technical accounting. Bring deep US GAAP fluency, particularly around software industry topics. Translate technical positions into practical, operational outcomes. Partner with the CFO on judgment calls that need an executive view. You understand the grey, not just the rule. Standardization across operating companies. Partner with OpCo Finance Directors to align chart of accounts, reporting packages, close timelines, and day-to-day accounting practice as we continue to migrate operating companies onto a common ERP environment. Bring coherence without flattening what makes each business work locally. Controllership, Payroll, ERP & Reporting, and AR / AP leadership. Lead a team of approximately ten, including a Director of Controllership, a Director of Global Payroll, and a Head of ERP & Reporting. Hire, develop, and stretch the team. Build a culture of delegation, ownership, and accountability so the function scales without you becoming the bottleneck. HQ Finance partnership. Work alongside the VP, FP&A on reporting infrastructure; with Tax on compliance cadence; and