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Location: Columbia, MO |   Reports to: Managing Director   |   Status: Full-time, exempt   |   Work Arrangement: Hybrid (minimum 2 days/week in office)

Bevel Financial is a commercial financing marketplace that connects mid-market businesses - in construction, industrial, medical, commercial real estate, business acquisition, and aviation - to a network of institutional capital sources. Rather than lending directly from a single balance sheet, Bevel operates as a curated portal into a broad lender network, giving clients faster access to competitive rates and structures across financing products. The team is small, high-trust, and hands-on, which places a premium on disciplined financial stewardship as the business scales.

Bevel Financial is hiring a Controller to be the company's senior finance point person: the individual who leads the external audit relationship, owns the accuracy and organization of financial reporting and data, and runs treasury and cash management. Bevel outsources its day-to-day bookkeeping and audit work to outside firms - this role does not perform hands-on accounting - but it requires enough command of GAAP and financial reporting mechanics to represent the company credibly to auditors, resolve technical questions, and know when something in the numbers doesn't look right. Critically, this is not a role for someone who only reviews reports that others have built: Bevel needs a Controller who can personally build, troubleshoot, and improve the reporting and data infrastructure itself, not just read its output. In practice, much of the job is project management - coordinating people, data, and deadlines across the audit, reporting, and treasury workstreams so nothing falls through the cracks. The role also carries oversight of the company's technology systems - ensuring they are properly administered, secured, and supported - though not their build-out or development, which sits elsewhere in the organization.

Audit Leadership

• Serve as the primary point of contact and project lead for Bevel's outsourced audit firm, managing the annual audit (and any interim reviews) from planning through completion, including the audit calendar and information requests across teams.
• Apply GAAP knowledge to represent the company credibly in audit discussions, work through technical accounting questions, and review proposed findings or adjustments before they're finalized.
• Manage relationships with the outsourced audit firm, outside accounting/bookkeeping providers, tax preparers, and other financial service vendors.

Financial Reporting, Data & Process Management

• Own the accuracy, organization, and timeliness of Bevel's financial reporting package - P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow - sourced from outsourced or internal bookkeeping.
• Build and maintain the data infrastructure and reporting processes that keep financial records well-organized, reconciled, and audit-ready at all times, not just at year-end.
• Gather, validate, and assemble supporting documentation needed for audits, lender reporting, or leadership review, and present results and metrics to leadership clearly.
• Standardize financial processes and internal controls, and identify opportunities to improve, simplify, or automate them, while ensuring compliance with GAAP and other regulatory reporting requirements.

Treasury & Cash Management

• Own day-to-day treasury operations, including monitoring cash positions, disbursements, and liquidity across all company accounts.
• Build and maintain rolling cash flow forecasts and liquidity models to support operating and strategic decisions.
• Manage banking relationships, account structures, and signatory controls; oversee reconciliations between bank and book records.
• Oversee accounts payable, accounts receivable, and collections processes performed by the accounting team or outside provider.

Technology Oversight

• Oversee technology systems, hardware & software - including onboarding/system access set-up for new employees - serving as business owner for financial and operational systems (properly maintained, secured, and vendor-supported) without personally leading build-out or development.
• Coordinate with outside IT and software vendors to resolve issues, manage renewals, and evaluate new tools as the business's needs evolve.

The Controller will oversee administration, access, and vendor management for Bevel's core systems: Salesforce, DocuSign/Nintex/Aurora LOS, Wolters Kluwer eVault/Lien Solutions, QuickBooks, Google Workspace, Microsoft Office, Box, Equifax/PayNet, and Citrix/Podio.

• 8+ years of progressive accounting/finance experience, including senior, audit-facing responsibility as a Controller or similar; Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance required, CPA license (or in progress) strongly preferred.
• A builder, not just a reviewer: proven, hands-on experience personally constructing, troubleshooting, and improving financial reporting infrastructure - including Excel/spreadsheet or BI-tool fluency to build models and reports from raw data - rather than simply validating what someone else designed.
• Deep GAAP knowledge and demonstrated success as the primary company contact for external auditors, from planning through completed audit.
• Hands-on treasury experience: cash flow forecasting, liquidity planning, banking relationships, and account reconciliation.
• Strong project-management instincts, able to coordinate audit, reporting, and treasury workstreams across internal staff and outside providers to firm deadlines.
• Comfortable overseeing - not building - broader operational technology systems and vendor relationships; proficient with QuickBooks or a comparable platform; exceptional communication skills and high integrity suited to a small, high-trust team.