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Noble Studios

Location:
United States, Reno ▼
Las Vegas

Category:
Finance

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Job Description:

Noble Studios is seeking a hands-on Controller with agency experience who will manage our small accounting team and personally handle our budgeting, financial analysis, reporting, and forecasting. This role makes strategic and financial recommendations to the leadership team, as well as oversees our external tax accountants and business insurance brokers. Noble’s Controller ensures subcontractors are effectively managed and serves as our primary interface to tax departments in the cities and states where we have offices and employees. The position plays a key role in helping senior management create a strategic vision by both providing and developing data, KPI’s, and being proactive in recommending both revenue enhancement and cost reduction strategies. The position serves as a resource to the rest of the organization as well as maintaining the company’s financial single source to truth.

Job Responsibility:

Maintain and improve Noble’s financial strategy embodied in the planning, budgeting, and forecasting process
Create, oversee and present monthly financial reports and analysis to senior leadership
In concert with the COO and department heads, manage the process of preparing, maintaining, and updating the annual corporate budget and financial reports, including but not limited to weekly cash flow, monthly forecast updates, monthly and annual income statements, and ad hoc reports as requested
Responsible for Noble’s books of accounts
Create, maintain and improve policies, procedures and SOPs that ensure the company operates efficiently and effectively from a financial perspective, and complies with relevant standards
Recommend new platforms and technologies for the finance function that create efficiency and reduce costs across all areas, including enhancing the sophistication of the company’s management reporting capabilities
Oversee all journal entries and reconciliations and assure timely and accurate monthly, quarterly, and annual closes
Review active projects and create project reports to find opportunities to recognize earned revenue, complete, close and cancel as needed
Alert senior management to projects that are behind schedule and work with the account management team to reforecast when necessary
Train, oversee, mentor and manage direct reports, including processing and reconciling all accounts payable, accounts receivable, credit cards, banking, journaling, etc.
payroll processing, reconciliations, corrections and entries
benefits reconciliations, payments, reports and posting
managing client media accounts, including tracking, transferring funds, approving orders, ensuring accurate invoice payments, and reconciling by client
Oversee corporate credit card accounts to ensure available credit and authorize new cards, when appropriate
Review and approve all subcontractor agreements, ensure subcontractors meet Noble business qualifications, track change orders, set-up, verify work completion and verify invoice receipt, align subcontractor and client payments, and oversee the year-end 1099 process
Develop effective working relationships with and oversee external banking, tax, insurance and legal professionals to ensure coverages, reports, payments, applications, claims and filings are correct and timely
Leverage our ERP (Workamajig) track and report on data relevant to projects, potential sales, labor rates, employee utilization, etc.

Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or another business-related field or equivalent experience
At least 8 years of progressively responsible accounting/finance experience in mid-sized privately held businesses, ideally in an agency setting
At least 2 years of leadership experience, including managing at least one direct report and reporting directly to the c-suite
Strong communication skills with the ability to translate financial data and trends into actionable insights for leadership
Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to motivate direct reports and inspire others to support financial processes
Solid understanding of budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis and reporting, as well as journaling, reconciliation, accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll processing, and banking
Strong familiarity with job costing, earned revenues, tax, insurance and subcontracting
Experience in an agency setting is strongly preferred, particularly if the agency used Workamajig
Strong sense of the importance of keeping confidential information confidential
Proven ability to create and improve business processes and systems that are both effective and efficient
Superb attention to detail and organization, with a track record of meeting business critical deadlines
Demonstrated ability to work in a dynamic and constantly changing company environment

Nice to have:

An MBA is an advantage
Experience in an agency setting is strongly preferred, particularly if the agency used Workamajig

What we offer:

The chance to work for an award-winning, industry-leading employer with some of the most innovative clients in the world
An exceptional benefits package, plus a workplace emphasis on ongoing learning and growth
A see-it-to-believe-it time-off policy: two companywide paid weeks off every year (one week in July and another in December) when Noble closes its offices, plus 10 days of personal PTO and all paid company-observed holidays
The ability to work remotely or from home

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
December 10, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Remote work

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