SeniorController

**What This Is** RDI is hiring a Senior Controller to own our finance function end to end — monthly close, GAAP financial statements, ASC 606 revenue recognition, the billing tracker, lender reporting, and the forward forecast model — and to direct the outsourced team that runs day-to-day bookkeeping, AP, and AR. On-site, five days a week, in Van Nuys. This is a real ownership seat at a thirty-person, PE-backed specialty CRO. The function has good bones: an engaged CEO with a finance background, an outsourced partner already handling the day-to-day, and a clear revenue model. We need one strong person to step in and elevate it. **This role is probably not a fit if:** \- Your revenue recognition experience is product-, inventory-, or COGS-based rather than project/services. This is the core of the work, not something you can pick up here. \- You are a long-tenured Controller or CFO looking for a stable seat to land in. The scope is broad and the trajectory is upward — we want someone climbing into it, not settling. \- You need the role to be remote or hybrid. It is on-site, five days, full stop. **The Work** Revenue recognition is the heart of the seat. We recognize on a cost-based input method under ASC 606 — Cumulative Actuals ÷ EAC × TCV, study by study — and getting it right matters to the board, the lender, and the operating team. If you have run ETC/EAC against contract value — percentage-of-completion, cost-to-cost — in a services business, this will feel familiar. If you haven't, it won't. The billing tracker connects work performed to invoices issued; we want someone who owns it, not inherits it. You will run monthly borrowing-base reporting and covenant compliance with our lender, and the forecast model we share with the board each quarter and lean on between meetings. The monthly close is the foundation under all of it. You will direct our outsourced accounting partner — hold them to a standard, give clear feedback, and decide over time what stays outsourc