Sr. Financial Controller (Remote) - 61873503771

Responsibilities

• Design and automate financial forecasts, budgets, scenario models, and liquidity tracking.
• Establish financial frameworks for stock-keeping and inventory management to handle growing manufacturing complexity.
• Take full ownership of major compliance initiatives, including designing and implementing a compliant, automated system for the upcoming EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR).
• Establish extended producer responsibility (EPR) reporting, cost management structures, and material recyclability tracking ahead of legal deadlines.
• Act as the primary financial sounding board for the CEO and CCO, providing clear, data-backed strategic choices.
• Mentor the Finance Manager, guiding them towards a future CFO track.

Requirements

• 8+ years of progressive experience spanning cost accounting, financial controlling, and financial planning and analysis (FP&A).
• 3+ years of experience operating as a Financial Controller or Finance Manager, demonstrating a strategic, future-focused approach and the capabilities of a junior CFO.
• Prior experience building, designing, and automating financial systems and reporting frameworks from scratch.
• Experience managing large compliance or regulatory projects with hard deadlines, such as packaging tax systems, international tax frameworks, or extended producer responsibility schemes.
• Experience in manufacturing finance, including cost accounting, stock-keeping, and the financial integration of subsidiaries.
• Experience within Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) or food packaging is highly ideal.
• A proven track record of successfully mentoring junior finance colleagues.

Qualifications

• Mentorship and Lateral Leadership (10%): Guide the Finance Manager, provide strategic guidance, and help prepare them for a future CFO track.

Skills

• Systems Builder and Automator: Dislike repetitive manual entries and Excel maintenance, naturally designing software or automated solutions.
• Factual Precision: Look beyond surface-level symptoms to find root causes in data, highly analytical, critical of unverified assumptions, and deeply prepared when making strategic recommendations.
• Forward-Thinking: Think in scenarios, predict risks, liquidity changes, and operational opportunities well before they appear.
• Mentor: Find fulfillment in helping others grow, coach the Finance Manager, give them space to own daily operations while building their strategic capabilities.
• Collaborative and Low-Ego: Prefer working behind the scenes to build great systems and support the team, avoid behavioral derailers of "winning too much" or trying to leave a mark just for the sake of it.

Benefits

• Fixed salary according to experience, 39-hour a week full-time remote position.
• Competitive salary, 6 weeks of paid time off, pay during sick days, and generous paid parental leave.
• Startup environment with an exceptional work ethic, where overtime is generally not expected but would be compensated if required.

Pay

Fixed salary according to experience.

Schedule

39-hour a week full-time remote position.