Controller

🕒 4 days ago

🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

⛔️ Financial Controller

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Portless

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11 - 50 employees

🛍️ eCommerce

📦 Logistics

💳 Fintech

eCommerce • Logistics • Fintech

Portless is a logistics and fulfillment platform that specializes in direct-to-consumer (DTC) e-commerce shipping, allowing businesses to fulfill orders directly from China to their customers' doorsteps. By streamlining shipping processes and reducing costs, Portless improves margins and cash flow for its clients, enabling them to respond efficiently to actual customer demand. The company also offers integrations with popular e-commerce platforms, making international shipping seamless and effective.

📋 Description

• Own the month-end close calendar across all entities, including consolidation, intercompany and FX • Improve the speed of the monthly close • Ensure merchants are billed correctly and on time • Manage rate-card changes, credit notes and waivers with clear approvals • Ensure duties, VAT and tariffs are billed back accurately • Apply cash across Stripe and other payment channels • Keep accounts receivable reconciled to the bank and payment processors • Set the bad-debt reserve policy • Run collections with the billing team • Own the daily cash position and a 13-week forecast tied to the bank • Manage payment runs and approvals • Select and lead the first external audit • Prepare books for investor and lender diligence • Own monthly lender reporting • Coordinate outside advisors on Canadian, US and Chinese filings, sales tax and VAT, and transfer pricing • Improve the finance systems stack, including QuickBooks Online, Stripe, Bill.com and Ramp • Document processes and determine when an ERP is needed • Lead and develop the accounting team • Assign clear process ownership • Collaborate with data and engineering teams on billing data

🎯 Requirements

• CPA, CA or an equivalent designation • 8+ years in accounting, including at least 3 years as a controller or assistant controller who owned the close • A start in audit at a Big 4 or mid-tier public accounting firm • Experience owning a multi-entity, multi-currency close, including consolidation and intercompany • Experience running billing and collections at a high-volume business that bills per order, per transaction or on usage • Experience taking a company through a first audit or an audit-readiness cleanup, working directly with the auditors • Experience leading a team, including people in another country • Comfort with a lean stack and AI tools • Ability to keep work auditable • Clear, direct written English • Ability to manage across time zones and cultures with patience and clear writing

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary • Performance bonus • Equity • Remote work on a global team • Flexible hours around the overlap windows • Occasional travel to meet the team in person