Controller

Company Overview

Füm exists to accelerate humanity’s breakup with destructive habits and empower individuals to be free to become their optimal self. Join us on our mission to help the world breakup with smoking and vaping. Our patented, award-winning flavored air device is designed to help people achieve their full potential by replacing their bad habit with The Good Habit™ — that’s us!

Company Values

Our culture sets us apart and helps us identify our best-fit candidates for new roles. Review our values below to see what type of team you’d be joining. We love CHEWI team members!

• Can-Do Attitude: Are you someone who starts with ambitious goals and finds optimistic, resourceful, proactive, and creative methods to achieve them?
• Honesty: Are you committed to actively communicating and building trusting relationships through open and honest interactions?
• Empowerment: Do you want to join a team where you will support other ambitious and talented people to achieve their goals, and be supported in return?
• We Over Me: Are you someone who looks at the bigger picture and takes ownership of the team’s success by making it a priority for everyone to succeed?
• Integrity and Commitment: Can you be relied upon to do what you say you will, when you say you will do it? If not, are you comfortable owning it and making good on the shortcoming?

Why You’ll Enjoy Working at Füm

Füm takes great pride and works hard to establish and manage employee-progressive policies that create satisfying and rewarding work experiences for our team.

• Have an impact: We are a mission-driven organization that has a direct impact on the health, quality of life, and happiness of our customers. Every reconciliation you close and every report you produce supports a business that helps people break free from nicotine.
• High-ownership role: You will be the accountable internal owner of Füm's accounting foundation, managing external CPA/bookkeeping partners while defining the standards, inspecting the work, and ensuring the company's books are accurate, timely, compliant, and defensible.
• Work from Anywhere: We have built our company around a remote-first culture, which means that you will enjoy saving time and money commuting to the office. Instead, you get the freedom to blend your work and life in a way that allows you to perform to your full potential!
• Unlimited Paid Time Off (upon approval): We value work-life balance, and understand its role in the wellbeing and productivity of our team. Our unlimited PTO policy is designed to give you autonomy in managing your time off, while ensuring that the needs of your job are met.

Position Overview

The Controller is a key member of the Finance team and is responsible for the accounting function for the entire company, both in Canada and the USA. The Controller reports directly to the Head of Finance and works closely with external advisors, including tax counsel, external accountants, and the Company’s lenders.

Role Mission

The mission of the Controller is to help Füm achieve its vision by providing accurate, timely financial information to support business decision-making, ensuring the Company is compliant with government and other requirements across the jurisdictions in which it operates, and supporting the relationships with the Company’s financial and lender partners.

Responsibilities

The responsibilities of the Controller:     

• First 90 Days:
  Assess current accounting records, systems, filings, and processes to identify gaps, risks, and required fixes. Lead a prioritized plan to improve the reliability, compliance, and scalability of the accounting function.
• Accounting Operations & Close:
  Own month-end close, reconciliations, accruals, journal entries, AP/AR, expense review, monthly management reporting and financial statement preparation. Ensure transactions are accurate, timely, and properly supported.
• Payroll & Employee Payments:
  Manage payroll, reimbursements, expense payments, statutory remittances, and related reporting obligations. Ensure employee-related financial processes are accurate and completed on time.
• Systems & Revenue Reconciliation:
  Manage accounting data flows between QBO, Shopify, Amazon, retail channels, and Fulfil ERP. Ensure sales, fees, returns, discounts, inventory movements, and payment activity are accurately recorded.
• External Partner Management:
  Manage external bookkeeping, CPA, tax, and compliance partners, ensuring deliverables are accurate, timely, cost-effective, and aligned with Füm’s internal standards.
• Cash Flow & Reporting:
  Lead cash flow forecasting, variance analysis, and reporting to leadership, lenders, and advisors. Provide timely financial information to support planning, cash management, and external reporting.
• Tax, Compliance & External Advisors:
  Own GST/HST, sales tax, VAT, and other indirect tax compliance, while coordinating Canada/U.S. income tax filings, audit support, and external accountant relationships. Support customs duties, tariffs, and refund recovery processes.
• Controls & Process Improvement:
  Own financial statement preparation, audit readiness, and scalable accounting controls. Identify process gaps, resolve root causes, and build repeatable procedures that improve accuracy, timeliness, and accountability.

Key Performance Indicators

• Data Quality: Accounting records contain accurate, complete, and consistent data.
• Timeliness of Information: Records are current enough to support weekly and monthly executive decision-making and external reporting deadlines.
• Compliance: The Company remains compliant with all tax, payroll, and regulatory obligations across Canada, the USA, the UK, Australia, and the EU.
• Stakeholder Reporting: Lenders, external advisors, and other financial partners receive accurate, reliable, and timely information.

Proficiencies

• Accounting & Finance Background:
  Formal education in Accounting or Finance is required, with a CPA designation strongly preferred. Experience as a Finance Manager, Controller, or equivalent role in a Canada/U.S. operating environment is expected.
• Systems, Automation & AI:
  Strong systems capability, including QuickBooks Online, financial data feeds, ERP integrations, and AI tools. Able to use technology to automate repetitive work, accelerate financial analysis, improve reporting accuracy, and create more scalable accounting processes.
• Technical Accounting & Compliance:
  Strong knowledge of Canadian ASPE, financial reporting, month-end close, audit readiness, multi-jurisdiction tax compliance, and payroll processes.
• Cash Flow & Stakeholder Reporting:
  Experience producing cash flow forecasts, lender reporting, and stakeholder reporting in a business with secured debt or external financing partners.
• Problem Solving & Ownership:
  Strong problem-solving ability in ambiguous, fast-changing environments, with the ability to build structure where no playbook exists. High ownership, organization, prioritization, and attention to detail, with the ability to work independently through fluctuating workloads.
• Communication & Collaboration:
  Clear written and verbal communicator who can work effectively with internal teams, external advisors, lenders, and other stakeholders.

Offer Terms

• You will report directly to the Head of Finance.
• You will work remotely, but may be required to travel from time to time. The expectation is that the team will meet in person periodically.
• Your compensation will be $110,000–$140,000 CAD per annum, plus additional personal and company performance-based bonuses.
• Availability for team correspondence and meetings is Monday–Friday 08:00–16:00 MST.
• You will be required to abide by existing company policies that pertain to your employment and such other policies that are introduced during your employment. These policies are set out in the employee handbook.