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Controller owning Portless’s books, audit, billing and cash across its cross-border fulfillment business. Leading a distributed accounting team and building scalable finance controls.
Responsibilities:
- Own the month-end close calendar across all entities, including consolidation, intercompany and FX
- Improve the speed of the monthly close
- Ensure merchants are billed correctly and on time
- Manage rate-card changes, credit notes and waivers with clear approvals
- Ensure duties, VAT and tariffs are billed back accurately
- Apply cash across Stripe and other payment channels
- Keep accounts receivable reconciled to the bank and payment processors
- Set the bad-debt reserve policy
- Run collections with the billing team
- Own the daily cash position and a 13-week forecast tied to the bank
- Manage payment runs and approvals
- Select and lead the first external audit
- Prepare books for investor and lender diligence
- Own monthly lender reporting
- Coordinate outside advisors on Canadian, US and Chinese filings, sales tax and VAT, and transfer pricing
- Improve the finance systems stack, including QuickBooks Online, Stripe, Bill.com and Ramp
- Document processes and determine when an ERP is needed
- Lead and develop the accounting team
- Assign clear process ownership
- Collaborate with data and engineering teams on billing data
Requirements:
- CPA, CA or an equivalent designation
- 8+ years in accounting, including at least 3 years as a controller or assistant controller who owned the close
- A start in audit at a Big 4 or mid-tier public accounting firm
- Experience owning a multi-entity, multi-currency close, including consolidation and intercompany
- Experience running billing and collections at a high-volume business that bills per order, per transaction or on usage
- Experience taking a company through a first audit or an audit-readiness cleanup, working directly with the auditors
- Experience leading a team, including people in another country
- Comfort with a lean stack and AI tools
- Ability to keep work auditable
- Clear, direct written English
- Ability to manage across time zones and cultures with patience and clear writing
Benefits:
- Competitive base salary
- Performance bonus
- Equity
- Remote work on a global team
- Flexible hours around the overlap windows
- Occasional travel to meet the team in person
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