Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Author Health is a virtual-first mental health care company delivering compassionate, community-based care for people with serious mental illness, substance use disorders, and dementia. The Director, Financial Controller will own accounting operations, financial reporting integrity, revenue recognition, month-end close, budgeting, forecasting, audit readiness, and financial controls while building scalable processes and growing the accounting function.
Responsibilities
- Own the general ledger, the month-end close, and the accuracy of Author's financial statements - accounts payable, accounts receivable, and the monthly close - as the accountable leader for financial reporting integrity
- Maintain, document, and continuously improve Author's accounting policies, procedures, and internal controls; build a close process defined by documented, repeatable steps rather than institutional memory
- Own revenue recognition across Author's multiple revenue streams - including fee-for-service, PMPM, and value-based arrangements - with an emphasis on clear documentation and a defined, repeatable process for how each stream is recognized and reviewed
- Ensure financial reporting stays structured and consistent across the systems and tools that feed it, so figures reconcile cleanly and reliably from source to report
- Lead the annual budget and forecast process; report significant variances to management, and help build the dashboards and reporting that make results and variances easy to understand in real time
- Provide financial analysis supporting capital investment decisions, pricing, and contract negotiations
- Own audit readiness - maintain audit-ready workpapers and controls, and serve as the primary point of contact for the annual audit
- Lead the administration of Author's third-party payroll provider relationship
- Ensure compliance with local, state, and federal accounting and financial-reporting requirements
- Partner with Finance leadership to build on the reporting and analytics work already underway, helping elevate Author's reporting capabilities as the company scales
- Build, mentor, and - as headcount and transaction volume justify it - grow an accounting function that operates on defined processes rather than ad hoc effort
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Business Administration required
- Eight or more years of related accounting experience required
- Proven track record of working collaboratively with stakeholders across the organization
- Experience with a fast-paced, continuously improving, and growing company
- Ability to shape a still-forming role and work independently; results-driven; strong written and oral presentation skills, with the ability to effectively influence decision-making
- Exceptional written and verbal communication, organizational, and time-management skills
- Deep command of GAAP accounting and familiarity with recognizing revenue across multiple streams in a multi-payer healthcare environment, with a documentation-first approach to policy and process
- Proficient in accounting and financial reporting software; hands-on with Business Central (Dynamics 365) and comfortable building dashboards and reporting in tools such as Looker
- Analytical and data-driven - comfortable evaluating financial information and building reporting that turns it into clear, real-time insight
- Hands-on operator comfortable in a fast-moving, early-stage environment; able to do the work and build the process and systems at the same time
- Proven track record working collaboratively with stakeholders across an organization; ability to shape a still-forming role and work independently, results-driven
- Committed to compliance and to Author's verify-first model
- Knowledge of Business Central (Dynamics 365) and Looker preferred
- Knowledge of ADP Workforce Now Payroll preferred
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA) preferred
- Knowledge of the healthcare industry, ideally with an understanding of accounting implications of MSO-PC structures, physician-practice revenue reconciliation, value-based payment models, and Medicare Advantage plans
Benefits
- Remote position
- Up to 15% travel may be required for team meetings and company events
- Performance bonus
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