Controller - CPG

Overview

This role supports a craft and hobby consumer products business by taking ownership of accounting for its North American operations. The organization has outgrown its current accounting processes and needs a hands-on Controller to clean up, rebuild, and modernize core workflows (AP, AR, inventory, and month-end close). This is a build-and-fix position rather than a pure maintenance role.

Responsibilities

• Process cleanup and redesign: Document how work is performed today, then rebuild month-end close, AP, AR, and inventory workflows using modern tools, automation, and clean NetSuite reporting. Ensure workflows are documented so the broader team can run them.
• Month-end close (North American entity): Lead reconciliations, accruals, journal entries, and maintain a close calendar the team can consistently meet.
• Inventory accounting (several thousand SKUs):
  • Manage landed cost (freight, duty, tariffs)
  • Oversee costing and reserves for slow-moving stock
  • Reconcile physical counts to warehouse records
• Cash forecasting and working capital:
  • Maintain and update a rolling 13-week cash flow forecast every week
  • Run AP payment activities
  • Follow through on collections
  • Provide reporting to lenders and financing partners
• Channel accounting: Own accounting across e-commerce, national retailers, and distributors, including retailer deductions and chargebacks, customer terms, and AR.
• Multi-entity and international support: Support intercompany activity, FX, and consolidation needs with European and Asian entities.
• Compliance support: Handle multi-state sales tax and 1099s, coordinating with outside tax advisors and auditors as needed.

Requirements

• 7+ years of progressive accounting experience, including 3+ years as a Controller or Assistant Controller.
• Proven ability to lead an accounting cleanup by rebuilding reconciliations and redesigning close, AP, or inventory processes using modern tools and automation.
• Experience in a CPG or consumer products company with physical inventory.
• Hands-on experience with NetSuite, including running the close, reconciliations, and financial reporting.
• Experience accounting for a catalog of 1,000+ active SKUs, including landed cost.
• Experience with a multi-entity structure that includes at least one foreign entity (intercompany, FX, consolidation).
• Experience building and maintaining a rolling 13-week cash flow forecast.
• Experience supporting revenue across e-commerce plus retail or distributor channels.
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance.
• Imported goods experience, including customs duties, tariffs, duty refunds, and ocean freight accruals.

Preferred Qualifications

• CPA or CMA.
• Experience managing big-box retailer deductions and chargebacks and compliance programs.
• Experience with multi-state sales tax, including nexus and marketplace facilitator rules.
• Experience accounting for licensing and royalty agreements.
• Experience working with a finance team in another country and time zone.
• Familiarity with Shopify and Ramp.

Compensation & Benefits

• Engaged as an independent contractor through the organization’s services network.
• Potential to transition to a full-time position with the client.

Location

• Fully Remote

Hours

• Approximately 15 hours per week to start, with opportunity to convert to full time directly with the client.