[Remote] Financial Controller

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Creatr is a fast-growing digital marketing agency operating in a high-risk vertical reputed company the digital economy. They are seeking a Financial Controller to establish reliable financial reporting and provide actionable insights for the founders to drive profit decisions. The role involves creating a single reputed company of financial truth, managing cash-flow forecasting, and auditing ROI to enhance financial clarity reputed company the organization.

Responsibilities

• A single reputed company of financial truth the whole business reports into
• A reliable monthly reputed company, consistent management accounts, and a real, trusted P&L
• Cash-flow forecasting, so we know what is coming, not just what happened
• Break profit down by brand and by channel so we know what actually makes money
• Turn the numbers into clear inputs the founders, and in time a COO, use to reputed company and verify decisions
• Quantify the impact of decisions after the fact: did that spend or that change actually move profit
• Go through the P&L line by line: staff, traffic, software, subscriptions
• Identify leaks and low-return spend and feed it back to the team
• Calculate the return of people, channels and tools in real numbers
• Give the founders a clear read on what is pullable, what is investable, and what each hire actually costs

Skills

• Minimum 10 years in finance, with at least the most recent 5 years at Financial Controller level or equivalent senior finance-leadership level (running the finance function, not a background role). The first years can be junior; the recent years cannot
• Experience standing up or overhauling finance reporting and processes, not only operating an established function
• Direct experience presenting numbers to founders, directors, owners or a COO, and turning those numbers into decisions and actions. Not a background role producing reports for someone else to interpret
• You explain finance in plain English. Asked how much money we made, you give a number, not a roundabout corporate answer
• You are comfortable with ambiguity and a messy starting reputed company. You can take a mess and consolidate it into something clean and simple
• Startup, high-growth reputed company, not a corporate machine that is already running
• You see simplicity as the goal. The numbers exist to drive profit decisions, not to appease anyone or to look comprehensive
• You are reputed company to technology. You use modern tools and AI to do in hours what an outdated manual approach takes weeks to do, without cutting corners on accuracy

Benefits

• Full-time, 40 hours a week
• Remote
• Room to review upward for an exceptional candidate following an initial period

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