Financial Controller (Fractional, CPA)

Overview

This role is a fractional Financial Controller position for a US-based, remote team. The Financial Controller will own finance end to end, ensuring accurate accounting across traveler and operator transactions, driving month-end close, building scalable finance controls, maintaining compliance, and supporting strategic decision-making with financial insights.

Responsibilities

• Own the books and close every month on schedule, delivering clear financials with a short narrative explaining what changed and why.
• Start hands-on in the ledger, then document finance processes and oversee day-to-day transaction work led by a bookkeeping team.
• Plan cash by building budgets, maintaining a rolling cash forecast, and producing a runway view used by leadership.
• Build finance controls including approval workflows, spend policies, and an audit trail applicable to everyone, including founders.
• Ensure accurate marketplace accounting, including revenue recognition, customer credits and refunds, and operator payables.
• Maintain compliance by owning the tax and compliance calendar (including aviation excise taxes and multi-state obligations) and managing an outside CPA firm.
• Serve as the finance voice in strategy by providing the financial inputs that guide investment decisions and preparing for investor reporting as the organization grows.

Requirements

• Active US CPA license (required).
• 5+ years of accounting experience, including owning the month-end close at a startup or high-growth company.
• Experience building a finance function from scratch (not only maintaining an existing one).
• Strong marketplace accounting skills, including gross vs. net, funds held for others, refunds, and payables.
• Deep QuickBooks Online experience.
• Hands-on experience with US tax compliance, including sales and use tax, multi-state payroll tax, and pass-through entities.
• Comfortable using AI in daily work.
• Ability to explain financial variances to non-accountants 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 is dependent on experience.

Location & Schedule

• Remote and US-based.
• Fractional to start: more hours in the first two months while learning the business, then approximately 10 hours per week, growing with the organization.
• Requires meaningful overlap with US Pacific hours.

Equal Opportunity

The organization is an equal opportunity employer and considers 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.