Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, the Waterbury, Vt., coffee business that ran afoul of a Securities and Exchange Commission probe into its revenue recognition practices in 2010, has named a new chief accounting officer.

The company has tapped Stephen Gibbs as vice president and chief accounting officer, effective immediately. The position is a newly created role; Green Mountain says Gibbs will lead the accounting operations including financial reporting, accounting, tax, financial systems, policies and controls, and will report to CFO Frances Rathke.

Gibbs joins Green Mountain with more than 15 years of experience in increasingly responsible leadership accounting and finance positions at public companies. Most recently he was chief accounting officer and corporate controller of Scientific Games Corp.; prior to that, he was  manager of accounting research at Coca- and was Controller at TRX Inc.