This Senior Controller seat at JLL rewards the person who asks why the variance exists, not just how large it is. Stack the numbers: $89,000 - $132,000, 5 years required, temporary schedule, and a senior seat that grows as fast as you do.
Key Responsibilities
- Stress-test the annual budget against three learning-obsessed demand scenarios
- Reconcile general ledger accounts and resolve discrepancies in a timely manner
- Coordinate with the tax team on filings, estimates, and year-end provisions
- Build the close documentation a new senior hire could follow blind
- Track every finance expense back to a source document
- Run the cost-accounting layer beneath every finance product line
- Track grant funding, restricted accounts, and compliance reporting
What You'll Bring
- Prior experience working on-site in Lawrence, KS, or willingness to relocate
- An eye for the mentorship-focused detail that separates fine from finished
- Solid understanding of finance best practices and industry standards
- The discipline to finish the boring 20% that makes the rest matter
- Hands-on Fixed Assets experience that survives a whiteboard interview
- A Lawrence network, or the hustle to build one from scratch
- Hands-on finance experience that holds up to follow-up questions
At JLL, our mission is to make finance simpler, faster, and more accessible for everyone in Lawrence, KS and beyond. We hold space for disagreement, then commit fully once the finance call is made.
This position offers $89,000 - $132,000, comprehensive benefits, and genuine room to advance into leadership within finance.
Our talent team is live and responsive, screening new resumes as they land.
We're keeping this Senior Controller search short, so put your hat in the ring this week.