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About the role

  • Financial Controller managing accounting operations across eight international entities for a remote-first company empowering families to embrace a nomadic lifestyle.

Responsibilities

  • Own the month-end and year-end close process across all 8 group entities, ensuring accuracy and timeliness
  • Prepare and review consolidated financial statements in compliance with IFRS and applicable local GAAP
  • Prepare consolidated financial reporting, working with the FP&A Manager
  • Lead the consolidation review process
  • Own intercompany accounting and eliminations across the group
  • Oversee external audit preparation and manage the relationship with auditors
  • Coordinate tax and VAT compliance monthly for each international entity, liaising with local advisors and authorities
  • Monitor regulatory changes across jurisdictions and ensure the group remains fully compliant
  • Contribute finance-side sections to external accreditation, regulatory, and lender reporting (e.g., WASC, lender financial covenants)
  • Serve as final approver for payment batches when appropriate, ensuring proper documentation, segregation of duties, and audit-ready evidence
  • Support cash flow forecasting jointly with the FP&A Manager (Controller owns historical and short-term operational; FP&A Manager owns forward-looking projections)
  • Ensure robust internal controls are in place and documented across all entities
  • Own the financial controls framework across the group, balancing preventive controls in payment execution with detective controls
  • Drive continuous improvement of accounting processes, systems and controls
  • Lead and develop the Senior Accountant, reviewing work for accuracy and quality while ensuring consistent, high-quality output across the accounting team, including Accounting Assistants
  • Act as the finance point of contact for any finance-related topic across the organisation, ensuring the group remains compliant at all times
  • Collaborate closely with the product and development team to support the build-out of the platform, providing financial input, validating transactional flows, and ensuring financial architecture is scalable and compliant
  • Partner with leadership on the exploration and confirmation of new revenue streams, modelling financial viability, assessing regulatory implications, and structuring the accounting treatment for new business lines

Requirements

  • Fluent in English
  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or a related field is a plus
  • 7+ years of accounting or finance experience, with at least 3 years in a Controller or senior finance role
  • CPA, ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent professional certification, fully qualified
  • Strong experience managing multi-entity, multi-currency accounting in an international group
  • Deep knowledge of VAT, tax compliance, and regulatory requirements across multiple jurisdictions
  • Experience with consolidated reporting and intercompany eliminations
  • Proficient with cloud-based accounting systems (Xero is a plus)
  • Proven leadership ability, experience managing or mentoring finance team members
  • Strategic mindset with excellent analytical and communication skills
  • Highly organised, autonomous, and comfortable in a fast-paced, remote-first environment
  • Experience in a scale-up or international startup is a strong advantage

Benefits

  • A remote-first, flexible work culture built on trust, autonomy, and impact
  • The opportunity to optimize, refine, and evolve accounting operations in a global company
  • Work that is meaningful and connected to how families live, work, and learn globally
  • A collaborative, values-driven team that cares deeply about quality and execution
  • The flexibility to work from anywhere and design a lifestyle that works for you

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

SeniorLead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

Cloud

Location requirements

RemoteNorth America

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