Financial Controller (Fractional, CPA)

Overview

This is a fractional Financial Controller role with a builder mindset—owning finance end to end. Every booking moves money between travelers and operators, and you will ensure accurate accounting, strong controls, and data-backed decision-making.

The position starts fractional and is remote for US-based candidates, with meaningful overlap with US Pacific hours.

Responsibilities

• Own the books: close every month on schedule and deliver clear financials with a short narrative explaining what changed and why.
• Start hands-on in the ledger: work directly in the books initially, then document processes and hand day-to-day transaction work to a bookkeeping team you lead and shape.
• Plan cash: build budgets, rolling cash forecasts, and runway views; support leadership with “can we afford this?” analyses.
• Build finance controls: develop approval workflows, spend policies, and audit trails that apply to everyone, including founders.
• Ensure marketplace accounting accuracy, including revenue recognition, customer credits and refunds, and operator payables.
• Maintain compliance: own the tax and compliance calendar, including aviation excise taxes and multi-state obligations; manage an outside CPA firm.
• Serve as the finance voice in strategy: provide the numbers behind investment decisions and prepare for investor reporting as the company grows.

Requirements

• Active US CPA license (required).
• 5+ years in accounting, including owning the close at a startup or high-growth company.
• Experience building a finance function from scratch (not only maintaining one).
• Strong marketplace accounting knowledge: gross vs. net, funds held for others, refunds, and payables.
• Deep QuickBooks Online experience.
• Hands-on US tax compliance experience, including sales and use tax, multi-state payroll tax, and pass-through entities.
• Uses AI in daily work (the team uses Claude).
• Ability to explain financial variances to a non-accountant in a few sentences.
• Absolute discretion.

Preferred Qualifications

• Aviation, charter, or travel accounting experience.
• Federal excise tax experience.
• Fundraising and investor reporting experience.
• Experience leading a remote bookkeeping team.

Compensation & Benefits

• Pay depending on experience.

Location

• Remote, US-based.
• Requires meaningful overlap with US Pacific hours.

Fractional Details

• Fractional to start: more hours in the first two months while learning the business, then approximately 10 hours per week, increasing as the company grows.

Equal Opportunity

The employer considers all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic.