Role: Controller

Working Hours: Full-time, overlap with Monday to Friday 9 am to 5 pm EST/CST.

Salary: $3,500 - $6,000/month depending on experience

Type of contract: Independent Contractor | Remote

Our firm is seeking a Controller to join our small team of financial professionals dedicated to the behavioral health industry. We partner with mental health and addiction treatment facilities to provide world-class financial infrastructure, ensuring their focus remains on patient care.

This is a full-time opportunity to be part of something bigger than yourself, managing the full-cycle accounting across our portfolio of clients, making a direct impact on the financial health of organizations that change lives.

We are looking for a finance professional who embodies the following core competencies and attributes:

Discipline & Self-Efficacy: Commitment to maintaining high standards of operational excellence, ensuring systematic thought, and a resourceful attitude.
Resilience & Grit: Able to handle urgent financial situations with level-headedness, lack of panic, and a focus on solutions.
Curiosity & Adaptability: Loves learning, improving, and continuously improving processes, with genuine excitement for leveraging AI and cutting-edge tools to increase portfolio scalability.
Teamability: Excellent English proficiency (written and verbal), necessary to supervise bookkeepers and clearly explain the story behind the numbers.
Integrity & Professionalism: Upholds ethical standards and prioritizes the financial well-being of the client portfolio.

A typical day as the Controller includes:

Portfolio Oversight: Managing the full-cycle accounting for a portfolio of behavioral health clients.
Hard Close: Ensuring a "Hard Close" is consistently achieved by the 5th business day of each month.
Team Leadership: Supervising and mentoring a team of bookkeepers, performing high-level reviews of their work in QuickBooks Online (QBO).
Cash Flow Architecture: Maintaining and updating weekly 6-month rolling cash forecasts, navigating a high-complexity reimbursement environment.
Tech Stack Optimization: Utilizing and optimizing firm and client tech stack to skyrocket efficiency and remain lean.
Data Integrity: Ensuring all financial data is "dashboard-ready" for dashboard integration, specifically tracking clinical KPIs alongside financial metrics.
Operational Cadence: Being available to overlap with US Eastern/Central business hours, and maintaining high accountability using tools to manage strict deadlines and Loom for training and feedback.

Qualifications & Experience

Expertise: Expert-level understanding of US accounting principles (US GAAP), including complex intercompany transactions.
Software Power User: Deep expertise in QuickBooks Online, including advanced app integrations (Ramp, Bill.com, Rippling).
Industry Context: Familiarity with the unique billing cycles of mental health or addiction treatment facilities is a significant advantage.
Automation: Proven history of leveraging AI tools and QBO automation to reduce manual entry and increase portfolio scalability.
Language: Excellent English proficiency (written and verbal).

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