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Financial Controller, Independent Contractor
Living in a Bubble. Own the monthly close calendar, quality bar, query queue, settlement reconciliation, consolidated group P&L, stock take, and year-end pack .
Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in multi-entity and multi-currency financial reporting, including consolidation and variance analysis, while ensuring compliance with indirect tax regulations across multiple jurisdictions. Strong ability to produce executive summaries and manage financial close processes independently.
Highest-signal resume keywords
CPA Or CA QualifiedMulti-Entity Reporting ExperienceIndirect Tax ExperienceStrong Writing SkillsE-Commerce Or Consumer Goods Experience
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Hard Skills
Financial ReportingConsolidationVariance AnalysisTax ComplianceCost AnalysisSOP DevelopmentFX HandlingP&L AnalysisReconciliationInventory Management
Soft Skills
Independent ContractorStrong Communication
Tools & Technologies
Power BIExcel
Certifications & Qualifications
CPACA
Industry Keywords
Indirect TaxE-CommerceConsumer GoodsAustralian TaxMulti-Currency
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Own the monthly close calendar, quality bar, query queue, settlement reconciliation, consolidated group P&L, stock take, and year-end pack
- Manage the indirect tax control across US sales tax, German VAT, UK VAT under Making Tax Digital, Canadian GST, and Australian BAS
- Maintain a filing calendar, prepare data for external firms, reconcile filings against the books, and document discrepancies
- Produce daily channel P&L, weekly sales reports, monthly P&L analysis with executive summary, KPI scorecard, and product/range performance reporting
- Conduct pricing reviews, margin verification, aged-stock markdown analysis, channel contribution analysis, and third-party logistics cost reviews
- Refresh and verify landed costs monthly and resolve known cost conflicts
- Create SOPs for recurring processes, an access map, and an audit-readiness file
- Take over daily and weekly reporting, document the close, run landed-cost refreshes, and produce the consolidated group P&L without CEO involvement
- Develop the FX convention, SKU mapping, US state tax registration recommendation, and discount bands with margin floors
- Report directly to the CEO and coordinate with the external bookkeeping firm and Australian tax advisors
Requirements
What you’ll need- CPA or CA qualified, with a Big 4 audit or advisory background at manager or assistant manager level, or equivalent depth in industry
- Multi-entity, multi-currency reporting experience, including consolidating entities with different start dates and forming a defensible view on FX handling
- Close discipline involving calendars, working papers, reconciliations, variance tolerance, and holding an external bookkeeper to a standard
- Indirect tax experience across more than one jurisdiction, including coordinating external firms and understanding controls over outsourced filings
- Comfortable building before delegating; in year one, building and running the function
- Strong writing skills for executive summaries that people read and act on
- Based in the Philippines
- Able to work as an independent contractor
- Daily availability window overlapping the Australian morning
- E-commerce or consumer goods experience, Power BI or similar modelling, inventory-heavy business and landed-cost experience, and Australian tax exposure are useful but not required
Benefits
Comp & perks- Generous remuneration depending on experience, invoiced monthly in US dollars
- An annual bonus arrangement in line with the rest of our remote team
- Fully remote, with an agreed daily availability window rather than fixed office hours
- A formal review at six months covering performance, conversion to a permanent arrangement, and whether the scope of the role widens
- A defined path beyond year one — Head of Finance with a team beneath you, or transaction readiness; you would have a say in which
- Direct reporting line to the CEO
- External bookkeeping firm checks the work at each close and Australian tax advisors check it annually