Controller (Strategic Finance & Operations) – Worldwide Remote

Overview

A growing organization is seeking a Controller to take full ownership of financial clarity, reporting integrity, and business insight across the company. This role goes beyond traditional accounting responsibilities and focuses on operational finance, financial analysis, and business partnering.

Responsibilities

Financial Ownership & Close Oversight

• Review and validate monthly financial statements prepared by the centralized finance team.
• Ensure revenue, commissions, and operational costs are accurately categorized and aligned with business reality.
• Maintain confidence in the integrity, accuracy, and consistency of financial data.
• Own and improve the month-end close process to enhance efficiency, speed, and accuracy.
• Identify discrepancies, inconsistencies, and unusual financial trends and proactively drive resolution.

Financial Reporting & Visibility

• Build and continuously improve financial reporting structures for leadership.
• Analyze profitability across services, clients, and business verticals.
• Provide clear insights into revenue drivers, cost structure, and operational margins.
• Ensure reporting evolves alongside company growth and increasing complexity.

Business Partnering & Operational Finance

• Partner closely with the CEO and leadership team to provide actionable financial insights.
• Translate accounting data into clear explanations of business performance and key drivers.
• Help leadership understand changes, reasons behind them, and recommended actions.
• Act as a trusted advisor by providing recommendations and constructively challenging assumptions.
• Ensure financial insights lead to clear, actionable decisions.

Process Improvement & Systems

• Assess and improve financial workflows, reporting systems, and data structures.
• Build or redesign financial processes to increase clarity, scalability, and reliability.
• Introduce automation and tools to reduce manual work and improve accuracy.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to improve financial visibility across the organization.

Coordination with Central Finance

• Work closely with the centralized finance team responsible for accounting operations.
• Review financial statements and reconciliations to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Provide guidance on financial structure, categorization, and reporting improvements.
• Ensure accounting outputs align with operational reality.
• Act as the primary financial owner within the broader organization.

Success Metrics

• Accurate, efficient, and continuously improving month-end close processes.
• Financial reports that leadership can trust and act on immediately.
• Clear visibility into profitability, margins, and cost drivers.
• Ability to quickly explain what changed, why it changed, and what to do next.
• Fast, clear, and data-backed responses to leadership questions.
• Financial processes that become more scalable, automated, and reliable over time.

Requirements

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in accounting, finance, or financial operations.
• Strong understanding of financial reporting, revenue recognition, and cost structures.
• Proven ability to own and improve month-end close and reporting processes.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret and clearly explain financial data.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel or Google Sheets.
• Experience operating in fast-paced, high-growth environments with high expectations for speed, accuracy, and accountability.
• Ability to trace financial outputs back to source data and validate accuracy.

Preferred Experience

• Experience in variable cost environments such as e-commerce or performance-driven businesses.
• Background combining accounting with FP&A or operational finance.
• Experience working directly with CEOs or senior leadership.
• Track record of building or redesigning financial processes from the ground up.
• Exposure to multi-entity or international structures.

Desired Attributes

• Takes full ownership of financial clarity and accuracy.
• Thinks beyond reporting and understands business drivers.
• Operates independently, identifying, prioritizing, and solving problems without step-by-step direction.
• Proactively identifies problems and brings solutions with measurable impact.
• Communicates clearly, directly, and with specific, data-backed outcomes.
• Confidently engages with leadership and holds their own in discussions.
• Acts as a builder, continuously improving systems and processes rather than just maintaining them.
• Demonstrates experience through specific, measurable outcomes.

Employment Details

• Department: Finance
• Reports To: CEO
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Location: Remote (U.S. time zone overlap required)