Corporate Controller

We Go Beyond:

At Bed Bath & Beyond, we believe that everyone should "Be You!". Bed Bath & Beyond is a community that upholds a culture of understanding, acceptance, and respect. We believe a person's individuality, traits, beliefs, and characteristics should be valued and embraced. Living by this ethos is essential to the success of our business. Our goal is to foster a more inclusive environment where every employee visibly demonstrates inclusive behaviors and respect for individuals.

What You'll Do

• Lead the monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes, ensuring accurate, timely, and well-controlled financial results.
• Own complex consolidations across multiple entities, business lines, systems, and intercompany relationships.
• Support public company reporting requirements by overseeing consolidated financial statement preparation, close schedules, accounting analyses, and audit-ready support for SEC filings.
• Maintain and improve close procedures, account reconciliation standards, review protocols, and internal control documentation.
• Partner with technology, finance, operations, and business leaders on ERP, consolidation, reporting, account reconciliation, and workflow automation implementations or enhancements.
• Champion automation and process improvement across the accounting organization, reducing manual work, improving data quality, accelerating the close, and strengthening controls.
• Lead, develop, and scale a high-performing accounting team.
• Support SOX compliance, internal control design and execution, deficiency remediation, and ongoing control optimization.
• Coordinate effectively with external auditors, internal audit, tax, treasury, legal, FP&A, and business partners to resolve accounting matters and deliver high-quality work product.
• Help evaluate accounting implications of strategic initiatives, new business models, store operations, technology investments, system changes, and corporate transactions.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field required; CPA strongly preferred.
• 12+ years of progressive accounting experience, including public company controllership, assistant controllership or public accounting experience.
• Strong experience leading complex consolidations in a multi-entity, multi-location organization.
• Deep knowledge of U.S. GAAP, SEC reporting requirements, SOX compliance, internal controls, and audit processes.
• Demonstrated experience implementing, optimizing, or scaling finance systems such as ERP, consolidation, close management, account reconciliation, reporting, or workflow automation platforms.
• Highly detail oriented, organized, and disciplined, with the ability to balance precision, urgency, and sound business judgment.
• Proven track record of improving accounting processes through automation, standardization, data quality improvements, and technology-enabled controls.
• Strong cross-functional communication skills and the ability to partner effectively with finance, technology, operations, legal, tax, treasury, internal audit, and external audit teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Big Four or national public accounting experience serving public company clients.
• Experience in a high-growth or transformation environment involving system migrations, acquisitions, restructuring, new business models, or finance organization redesign.
• Hands-on exposure to Oracle, Hyperion, FloQast or similar enterprise finance platforms.
• Experience presenting accounting matters to executive leadership.

Who We Are:

We're a passionate group of collaborative problem solvers and creative innovators, working on cutting-edge technology. From building award-winning retail applications (with amazing AR functionality) to creating leading blockchain and machine learning technologies, each of us embodies a unique value and contributes a diverse perspective to the team.

What We Offer:

• 401k (6% match)

• Flexible Schedules

• Tuition Reimbursement, Leadership Development Program, & Mentorship Program

• Employee Resource Groups (LatinX, Black Employee Network, LGBTQIA+, Women's Network, Women In Tech)

• And More…

• Benefits vary based on position, tenure, location, and employee election

Physical Requirements:

This position requires you to sit, stand and perform general office functions. You may also be required to lift up to 25 pounds occasionally. Bending, stooping and reaching are also frequently required.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and associates.  This policy includes our commitment to ensure that all employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability, pregnancy, veteran status (including Vietnam era veterans), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other non-job-related characteristic protected by law.

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