Financial Controller

Position Overview

What You'll Own:

Accounting & Financial Operations

• Own and oversee the company's day-to-day accounting and financial operations.
• Ensure accurate and timely monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting.
• Manage the month-end and year-end close process.
• Oversee accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll coordination, expense management, reconciliations, and general ledger accuracy.
• Maintain strong internal controls and financial processes.
• Manage Quickbooks accounting system
• Identify and correct discrepancies, inefficiencies, or risks before they become larger problems.
• Ensure financial records are organized, accurate, and audit-ready.
• Manage relationships and workflows with outside accountants, tax professionals, auditors, banks, and other financial partners.
• Help manage international operations

Financial Reporting & CEO Partnership

• Serve as a key financial partner to the CEO.
• Deliver clear, timely, and understandable financial reporting that helps leadership understand exactly where the business stands.
• Translate financial data into meaningful insights, risks, trends, and recommendations.
• Develop and maintain financial dashboards and key performance indicators.
• Cash Management. Ensure leadership has visibility into revenue, expenses, margins, cash position, burn, runway, and overall financial performance.
• Flag financial concerns early and proactively bring potential solutions—not just problems.
• Support executive and board-level financial reporting and presentations as needed. 

Forecasting, Budgeting & Planning

• Lead the development and ongoing management of the company's annual budget.
• Build and maintain financial forecasts and scenario models.
• Monitor actual performance against budget and forecast.
• Analyze significant variances and identify the operational drivers behind them.
• Partner with department leaders to improve budget accountability and financial planning.
• Help leadership understand the financial implications of major business decisions, hiring plans, investments, partnerships, and growth initiatives.
• Continuously evaluate cash flow and future financial needs.

Process Improvement & Financial Infrastructure

• Evaluate existing financial processes and identify opportunities to improve accuracy, efficiency, visibility, and accountability.
• Build scalable financial systems and processes that can support the company's continued growth.
• Establish clear ownership, deadlines, and accountability across financial responsibilities.
• Reduce reliance on the CEO for day-to-day financial oversight and administrative follow-up.
• Implement tools, reporting structures, and controls that allow the company to operate with greater financial discipline.
• Document key financial processes and ensure they can scale as the company grows.

Strategic Financial Support

• Analyze the financial health and performance of the business and provide recommendations to leadership.
• Evaluate profitability across products, services, customers, departments, and other relevant areas of the business.
• Support pricing, margin analysis, cost management, and revenue strategy.
• Identify opportunities to improve profitability, operational efficiency, and financial performance.
• Assist with financial due diligence, fundraising, investor requests, board reporting, and strategic transactions when necessary.
• Develop a deep understanding of the company's business model and use financial data to support smarter decision-making.

What Success Looks Like:

• A successful Financial Controller in this role will create an environment where:
• The CEO and leadership team always know where the company financially stands.
• Financial reports are accurate, timely, and easy to understand.
• Deadlines and financial responsibilities do not need to be chased or managed by the CEO.
• Potential financial problems are identified before they become emergencies.
• Cash flow and future financial needs are clearly understood.
• Leadership can confidently make decisions based on reliable financial information.
• Department leaders are held accountable to budgets and financial performance.
• Financial processes are organized, documented, and scalable.
• The company has significantly greater financial discipline, visibility, and accountability.

Qualifications:

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• 7+ years of progressive experience in accounting, finance, or financial operations.
• Previous experience as a Controller, Finance Director, or similar senior financial leadership role.
• Strong understanding of GAAP, financial reporting, accounting principles, budgeting, forecasting, and cash flow management.
• Experience managing month-end close and producing accurate financial statements.
• Advanced financial analysis and modeling skills.
• Strong experience with accounting systems and financial reporting tools.
• Exceptional attention to detail and commitment to accuracy.
• Ability to independently manage multiple priorities and consistently meet deadlines.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to explain financial information to non-financial leaders.
• High level of integrity, ownership, discretion, and accountability.

Preferred

• CPA, CMA, MBA, or other relevant advanced credential.
• Experience working in a high-growth company, startup, SaaS business, marketplace, or technology-enabled business.
• Experience supporting executive leadership and/or board-level reporting.
• Experience improving or building financial processes and infrastructure in a growing organization.
• Experience with fundraising, investor reporting, audits, or strategic financial transactions.

The Person We're Looking For:

• The right person for this role is:
  • Highly accountable. They do not wait to be reminded that something needs to be done.
  • Proactive. They identify issues, opportunities, and risks before leadership has to ask.
  • Strategic but hands-on. They can think about the future of the business while still ensuring today's books are correct.
  • Comfortable with ownership. They want to own the financial function—not simply complete assigned tasks.
  • Organized and disciplined. They create structure and bring order to complex or evolving environments.
  • Direct and communicative. They can clearly communicate difficult financial realities and recommendations.
  • Business-minded. They understand that finance exists to help the company make better decisions and grow sustainably.
  • Comfortable in ambiguity. They can build processes and infrastructure instead of waiting for everything to already be defined.

Why This Role Matters: