Overview
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Job Position: Finance Controller, Senior Accounting, Financial Operations Lead
Work Arrangement: Remote (LATAM and PH based)
Job Type: Full-time, Independent Contractor
Work Schedule: 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday with core hours between 9 AM – 5 PM EST
About Pearl Talent
We’re hiring a Finance Controller for — which places top 1% talent from around the world into operational roles at startups. We’ve bootstrapped our company to a couple of million in revenue and are adding six to seven figures in net new annualized revenue each month. Our clients are fast-growing startups and phenomenal US-based businesses that have raised over $3B in funding from Sequoia, a16z, Founders Fund, Y Combinator, and other top VC firms. We’re a fully remote opportunity, overlapping ET hours with the team as needed.
Purpose of Your Role
As Financial Controller at Pearl, you’ll own the integrity, stability, and strategic insight of our financial operations. You will ensure our financial data is accurate, our compliance is ironclad, and financial workflows scale with our growth. You’ll be a key partner to leadership, translating numbers into strategy, risk mitigation, and opportunity.
This role is ideal for someone who’s detail-obsessed, thrives on creating order in numbers, and wants to play a key part in scaling a fast-growing startup.
Role Overview
The Financial Controller will be responsible for overseeing all day-to-day accounting and finance operations, including bookkeeping, reporting, compliance, and cash management. This role goes beyond maintaining accurate records — you will design and enforce financial controls, build scalable processes, and provide the analysis leadership needs to make data-driven decisions. You’ll balance hands-on execution with strategic oversight, ensuring Pearl’s finances are both rock-solid and future-ready. This is a role for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, high-growth environment, can operate independently, and wants to directly shape the financial foundation of a scaling startup.
Responsibilities
- Oversee all aspects of financial operations: accounting, reporting, accounts payable/receivable, payroll, and cash management.
- Maintain (and continuously improve) robust financial controls to minimize risk and ensure compliance with relevant laws, tax regulations, and external audit requirements.
- Ensure timely and accurate month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close processes.
- Produce and present monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements (P&L;, balance sheet, cash flow) for internal leadership and external stakeholders.
- Develop forecasting models and budgets. Track performance against budget, provide variance analysis, and recommend corrective actions.
- Generate financial insights that help drive decisions on cost optimization, revenue growth, investment, and risk.
- Evaluate and design financial systems and tools to improve efficiency, accuracy, and scalability.
- Automate manual workflows where appropriate. Standardize templates, policies, and procedures.
- Oversee vendor/contractor relationships, ensuring payment processes are reliable and cost-effective.
- Ensure compliance with tax, regulatory, and reporting requirements in all jurisdictions where Pearl operates.
- Lead audits, liaise with external auditors, and ensure documentation and internal practices satisfy audit standards.
- Manage international transactions and currency conversion, cross-border compliance where relevant.
- Mentor or manage (directly or indirectly) junior accounting/finance personnel and possibly external support (bookkeepers, external accountants).
- Work closely with Ops, People, Legal, and Senior Leadership to align financial strategy with company objectives.
- Maintain strong relationships with banks, tax authorities, legal advisors, and other financial service providers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related; CPA, CMA, or equivalent strongly preferred.
- 5+ years’ experience in full-spectrum accounting/financial control in a high-growth, fast-moving environment (startups a plus).
- Deep understanding of accounting principles, revenue recognition, GAAP (or applicable accounting standards), and financial compliance.
- Experience with financial systems (e.g., QuickBooks, Xero, Netsuite, or comparable ERPs), advanced Excel/Google Sheets, plus data analysis tools.
- Strong attention to detail paired with the ability to think strategically.
- Excellent communicator, able to present complex financial information clearly to non-financial leaders.
Benefits
- Potential for profit share based on performance
- Fully WFH, forever
- Annual team retreat
- Unlimited PTO
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