Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. HelpGrid is a performance-driven growth partner for eCommerce brands in the health and wellness space. They are seeking a Controller to take full ownership of financial clarity, reporting integrity, and business insight across the company, acting as the financial operator and providing actionable insights for leadership.
Responsibilities
- Review and validate monthly financial statements prepared by the centralized finance team
- Ensure revenue, commissions, and operational costs are accurately categorized and aligned with business reality
- Maintain full confidence in the integrity, accuracy, and consistency of financial data
- Own and improve the month-end close process, driving efficiency, speed, and accuracy
- Identify discrepancies, inconsistencies, and unusual financial trends, and drive resolution proactively
- Build and continuously improve financial reporting structures for leadership
- Analyze profitability across services, clients, and business verticals
- Provide clear insights into revenue drivers, cost structure, and operational margins
- Ensure reporting evolves alongside company growth and increasing complexity
- Partner closely with the CEO and leadership team to provide actionable financial insights
- Translate accounting data into clear explanations of business performance and key drivers
- Help leadership understand what changed, why it changed, and what actions to take
- Act as a trusted advisor, providing recommendations and constructively challenging assumptions when needed
- Ensure financial insights lead to clear, actionable decisions, not just reporting
- Assess and improve financial workflows, reporting systems, and data structures
- Build or redesign financial processes to increase clarity, scalability, and reliability
- Introduce automation and tools to reduce manual work and improve accuracy
- Partner cross-functionally to improve financial visibility across the organization
- Work closely with the centralized finance team responsible for accounting operations
- Review financial statements and reconciliations to ensure accuracy and completeness
- Provide guidance on financial structure, categorization, and reporting improvements
- Ensure accounting outputs align with operational reality
- Act as the primary financial owner for HelpGrid within the broader organization
Skills
- 7+ years of experience in accounting, finance, or financial operations
- Strong understanding of financial reporting, revenue recognition, and cost structures
- Proven ability to own and improve month-end close and reporting processes
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret and clearly explain financial data
- Advanced Excel / Google Sheets proficiency
- Experience operating in a fast-paced, high-growth environments with high expectations for speed, accuracy, and accountability
- Ability to trace financial outputs back to source data and validate accuracy
- Experience in variable cost environments (e.g., e-commerce, performance-driven businesses)
- Background combining accounting + FP&A / operational finance
- Experience working directly with CEOs or senior leadership
- Track record of building or redesigning financial processes from the ground up
- Exposure to multi-entity or international structures
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