Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Zazu Digital Talent is a profitable, founder-owned consumer products group seeking a Financial Controller. The role involves owning the controllership function end to end, designing processes, implementing controls, and ensuring accurate financial reporting in a high-transaction-volume environment.
Responsibilities
- A fast, disciplined month-end close across all entities, with accurate draft financials on the CEO's desk within the first week of the month. Speed and accuracy are both non-negotiable
- Consolidated, decision-grade financials, including intercompany eliminations and clean entity-level P&Ls
- Payment integrity and AP controls: vendors paid accurately, on time, once. Duplicate-payment detection, fraud prevention, approval workflows, and vendor master hygiene are yours to design and enforce
- Systems: driving the finance side of a modern ERP build-out (e.g. NetSuite) so the stack works as one coherent system
- Inventory and COGS accounting for a high-SKU physical-product business: landed costs, inventory valuation, marketplace settlement reconciliation, channel-level margin visibility
Skills
- Proven controller (or strong assistant controller ready to step up) who has personally owned the close in a multi-entity, high-volume business
- A builder: you have turned a messy or outgrown finance function into a system, and you can point to the before and after as your own work, not your team's
- Hands-on, fast, and comfortable in the detail: journal entries, reconciliations, vendor files
- Direct and concise. The founder wants three bullet points, not a deck
- Excellent English, any location
- Consumer products, ecommerce, or marketplace experience strongly preferred
- AI-fluent, or eager to be: using AI to compress close timelines and automate reconciliation work will be actively encouraged
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