Financial Controller – Full Time

Financial Controller / Accounting Director – Remote

About Us
Join our dynamic, but small team (7 USA; 4 Philippines), at a thriving ecommerce company with an integrated warehouse operation. Our company believes strongly in helping improve our customers lives AND the lives of our employees. Our growth is built upon a customer-first mentality. Our mission is to expound upon this pillar by building a best-in-class website experience, building operational excellence, and creating an unrivaled customer experience. To get there, we need self-driven subject matter experts who are organized, detail-oriented, possess strong data integrity, and more importantly, love improving processes. Is this you? Come join us in this quest!

About the Position
As a Financial Controller or Accounting Director, you will lead the financial department of this ecommerce company, executing the financial integrity and operational efficiency of our business. In this role, you will be the lead accounting professional in our company, tasked with overseeing and managing our entire accounting operation. This role requires a highly autonomous individual who can manage financial systems and a bookkeeper with minimal oversight from company owners. We manage a diverse range of products, including both drop-shipped and inventoried items, through our robust ERP system, Acumatica. Our products can be complex, with variants, kits, and multiple vendors, all contributing to its complexity. Additionally, you will get the chance to not just follow processes, but improve them and make them better. For instance, you also will have a couple developers available to help in automating financial transactions in our ERP. Your expertise will contribute directly to the strategic planning and financial health of our business.

Key Responsibilities:
• Standard Accounting setup. We are in our infancy in setting up Accounting in Acumatica; you will need to autonomously learn Acumatica, then apply accounting principles in setting up our company appropriately
• Staff Supervision: Manage and supervise accounting staff (currently one bookkeeper), and other external contributors (Acumatica developer) ensuring clarity over roles and responsibilities and high standards of work quality.
• System Proficiency. Utilize Acumatica ERP for streamlined management of financial records and data. Experience with Acumatica is highly preferred; otherwise, expect to develop proficiency rapidly.
• Compliance and Control. Ensure that all financial transactions are properly recorded, filed, and reported. Establish and implement financial controls to prevent mismanagement and fraud.
• Strategic Analysis & Advice. Analyze financial data and performance; provide advice and strategic recommendations to the CEO and other key members of the executive team.
• Financial Management and Reporting: Oversee all company accounts and investments. Create monthly and annual reports to identify results, trends, and financial forecasts.

You will need:

• Ability to learn product details and apply best Accounting. We have a large catalog of parts with several ways a product can behave or be setup. For example, we have kits, both drop-shipped and inventoried, products with multiple vendors, and products with multiple substitutes. You will need to know the best way to set these up for best accounting practices, and give direction to implementers.
• Great attention to detail. Quickly knowing the details that matter. Having good habits of double checking work. Quick to catch and prevent mistakes.
• Resourcefulness. Having the ability to creatively solve problems leveraging the resources around you.
• Autonomous work style. Capable of initiating and managing projects with minimal direction.
• Shared values. To be a good fit, you’ll want to share in our company values of pursuing excellence, serving others, doing what’s right-always, being reliable, working diligently

Qualifications:
• Proven experience as a Financial/Accounting leader, preferably within an ecommerce environment.
• Experience working directly with CEO and having influence over all aspects of accounting
• Strong understanding of accounting principles and financial management.
• Demonstrable leadership abilities and experience with staff management.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal skills
• Proficient with Acumatica in preferred; experience with similar ERP systems, with a keen ability to adapt to new technologies, is acceptable
• CPA a plus

Job hours are flexible times during the day, Monday through Friday. However, we would require at least 5hrs of overlap with 9-5pm EST.