Senior Controller – Strategic Financial Advisor

• Own the month-end and year-end close process, ensuring accurate, timely, and audit-ready financial statements
• Manage day-to-day accounting operations, including A/P, A/R, payroll coordination, reconciliations, and internal controls
• Build and maintain rolling budgets, forecasts, and cash flow models
• Partner directly with the CEO on strategic and operational decisions, providing financial analysis and recommendations
• Identify financial risks, inefficiencies, and business growth opportunities, and recommend solutions
• Challenge assumptions and decisions when financial data does not support them
• Oversee compliance, tax filings, and relationships with external accountants, auditors, and financial institutions
• Develop dashboards and reports covering margins, cash position, and unit economics
• Support pricing, vendor, and cost-structure decisions with rigorous financial analysis
• Build scalable financial processes and systems as the company grows

• 7+ years of progressive experience in accounting/finance, including experience at the Controller level or above
• A genuine big-picture mentality: connect financial data and business strategy
• A solutions-first approach: propose ways to fix problems
• Confidence and diplomacy to push back on the CEO or leadership when warranted by the data
• Strong technical accounting foundation, including GAAP, close processes, and internal controls
• Experience in consumer products, CPG, or a similar product-based business is a strong plus
• Comfort operating in a lean, fast-moving environment while owning details and strategy
• CPA and/or MBA preferred but not required if experience demonstrates equivalent capability
• Excellent communication skills and ability to translate financial complexity into clear guidance for non-finance stakeholders