Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Vornoy Advisors is an operator-grade fractional CFO and advisory firm serving clients across industries including restaurants and hospitality, CPG, beauty and DTC, apparel and footwear, professional services, creative agencies, and family offices. The Controller I will own accounting for a portfolio of clients end to end, including monthly close, reconciliations, reporting, quality review, client communication, and coordination of offshore accounting work.
Responsibilities
- Full ownership of the monthly close for your assigned clients: close calendar, cutoff, and on-time delivery
- Reconciliations, accruals, prepaids, deferred revenue, fixed assets, intercompany, payroll entries, and inventory or channel-level activity depending on client composition
- Active review of work prepared by our offshore team before it reaches any client systems: you are the quality gate, not just a second set of eyes
- Monthly reporting packages you can explain to a CFO so they can actually use it in decision making, not just exporting PDFs
- Balance sheet integrity: you should be able to defend every material balance on an account you own
- Support for budgets, forecasts, and cash reporting when, and if, an engagement includes them
- Day-to-day point of contact for your clients on accounting matters
- Monthly or quarterly review calls: walk through the numbers, answer questions, translate accounting into something usable
- Know when to escalate. Complex transactions, revenue recognition judgment, and scope disputes go to the Director of CAS—we would much rather you raise something very early than resolve it too late
- Support onboarding and cleanup work on new clients, including inherited messy books
- Work inside our vertical playbooks (restaurants and hospitality, ecommerce, CPG, professional services) and help improve them
- Develop (or already have) power-user fluency in our stack: general bookkeeping (QBO, Xero), payment processing (Shopify, Stripe, Toast), AP/AR automation, payroll (Gusto, Justworks), expenses (Bill.com), close management, and channel accounting tools
- Actively flag automation opportunities and manual work that shouldn't be manual. We have in-house engineering support and an active tooling roadmap for the coming months; the Director of CAS owns the spec, but identification of opportunities for usage comes from the specialists doing the work
- Use AI-assisted workflows in production. This is a real expectation, not a nice-to-have
- Assign, instruct, and review offshore work on your clients
- Write instructions clear enough that the work comes back right the first time
- Give direct feedback on quality and turn recurring errors into process fixes
Skills
- 5+ years in accounting, including recent experience with full-cycle monthly close ownership
- Experience managing multiple concurrent client engagements
- Strong technical foundation in US GAAP as applied to private companies: accruals, revenue recognition, inventory, and multi-entity reporting
- Direct experience in inventory-heavy accounting and COGS tracking
- QBO fluency at a power-user level
- Experience reviewing work prepared by others and giving useful feedback on it
- Clear written communication with non-accountants
- Comfortable working remotely with real autonomy in a deadline-driven role
- Genuinely interested in using AI and automation to extend our leverage; not threatened by it
- This role is fully remote within the United States
- You must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship
- CPA, or actively on the CPA track
- 7+ years of accounting experience
- Prior experience at an outsourced accounting, outsourced controllership, or client accounting services firm
- Exposure to restaurants and hospitality: especially multi-unit operators and those using Toast & other restaurant specific software—or CPG, beauty, apparel, or DTC clients
- Hands-on experience with Xero, Bill, Ramp, Shopify, A2X, R365, or comparable ERP and channel tools
- Experience working with offshore or nearshore accounting teams
- Working knowledge of sales and use tax as it affects multi-state and ecommerce clients
- Familiarity with ASC 606 revenue recognition; accounting for debt (and interest expense), convertible notes, or SAFEs; accounting for leases
Benefits
- Standard benefits: medical, dental, vision, HSA, 401(k) with company match
- This role is fully remote within the United States.
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