Founding Finance Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Design and enhance accounting frameworks, chart of accounts, reporting structures, and internal accounts for current businesses, newly established entities, and acquired firms.

• Establish and streamline financial records for new or early-stage companies, ensuring that each business line is clearly understandable.

• Develop insightful profit and loss reports by company, application, and business line, encompassing revenue, costs, CAC/LTV, ROI, allocations, and relevant performance trends.

• Manage and refine closing processes, reconciliations, intercompany balances, recharges, allocations, documentation, and recurring reports across several entities.

• Investigate accounting discrepancies where figures do not reconcile, including misallocated expenses, missing documentation, unusual transactions, and potential fraud.

• Assist with acquisition efforts: target analysis, due diligence, seller number verification, scenario modeling, and tracking performance post-acquisition.

• Collaborate with bookkeepers, accountants, tax advisors, and operational teams to ensure that the finance function operates reliably without continuous founder involvement.

• Monitor company maintenance, compliance, tax efficiency, entity structure, and advisor follow-through, particularly for US-facing tasks.

• Identify practical methods to reduce costs, enhance financial strategies, lessen administrative burdens, and boost profits through improved information and structure.

• Utilize QuickBooks, Xero, spreadsheets, Google Drive records, bank statements, and AI tools to reconcile, analyze, document, and enhance the finance function.

• Maintain flexibility and be willing to take on additional responsibilities as the role and company demands evolve.

⛳️ Requirements

• Objective evidence of outstanding ability, such as Latin honors, class rank, CPA board rating of 88+ or topnotcher placement, national competition results, or equivalent — please specify in your application.

• CPA or equivalent qualifications are strongly preferred.

• 1–4 years of experience, ideally in Big 4 audit, US-focused accounting, or similarly rigorous financial roles. Exceptional recent graduates will also be considered.

• Exposure to US GAAP or experience working with US clients is a plus, but not mandatory.

• Strong grasp of accounting fundamentals: reconciliations, reporting, books cleanup, closing discipline, and the ability to quickly learn new systems.

• Professional skepticism: you notice discrepancies and are comfortable asking direct questions of individuals who may prefer not to answer.

• Determination — you are the person who perseveres on challenging problems long after others have given up.

• Highly proactive: you have a history of undertaking important tasks without being prompted.

• Highly intelligent and a quick learner; capable of independently solving issues in unfamiliar areas.

• Excellent written communication skills in English — you can articulate complex financial topics in simple terms for non-finance founders.

• High integrity — non-negotiable. You will manage confidential information and may deliver unwelcome findings, and you must stand firm on them.

• Exceptionally organized with a strong focus on detail.

• Comfortable with software and AI tools, or highly motivated to excel in using them.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary that exceeds the local Big 4 market, with significant growth potential for high performers.

• Engaging and high-trust responsibilities from day one: US-facing finance, accounting structures, acquisition diligence, and investigations — not just routine tasks.

• Direct collaboration with the founder, giving you proximity to critical decisions regarding acquisitions, company structure, tax efficiency, and capital allocation.

• Extensive US exposure: work with US companies, accounting systems, advisors, and communications — a resume booster that few local positions can offer.

• Opportunity to work across a founder-led portfolio of software companies, applications, and related investment structures without being confined to a narrow accounting focus.

• Utilize modern AI tools to accomplish the tasks typically handled by a much larger finance team.

• A genuine career trajectory: as the portfolio expands, this role has the potential to evolve into controller-level finance leadership across multiple companies.