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Hire Overseas

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2023

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Marketing • Logistics

Hire Overseas is a recruitment agency that specializes in connecting businesses with top-tier overseas talent. By focusing on a range of roles from technical and design fields to marketing and administrative support, Hire Overseas aims to streamline operations and boost productivity for its clients while offering significant cost savings. The company prioritizes quality by accepting less than 1% of global hires, ensuring that only exceptional candidates are placed in various remote positions.

📋 Description

• Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual close on a proactive, tight calendar with no chasing and no surprises • Own accounts payable, accounts receivable, bank and credit card reconciliations, journal entries, accruals, prepaids, fixed assets, and intercompany entries • Maintain an accurate, reconciled balance sheet and a clear, timely income statement with variance commentary management can act on • Work closely with the outside accounting firm to internalize their work and steadily take full ownership of the close • Apply US GAAP revenue recognition for CPG and FMCG including gross-to-net, trade spend, slotting, promotions, and returns so the top line is clean and defensible • Prepare financial statements that are audit-ready and lender-ready at all times • Own audit prep and support external auditors and tax preparers • Keep the books GAAP-compliant, fully reconciled, and backed by a clean audit trail so financials can go to banks and lenders and stand up to scrutiny • Own the distributor and retail deduction and chargeback function end to end including shortages, MCBs, spoilage, and freight chargebacks • Identify, document, validate, and dispute deductions, file at scale, track recovery, and lead the distributed workflow that recovers cash that would otherwise be lost • Reach out proactively to customers and distributors on AR, collections, and disputed deductions to resolve issues early and keep cash coming in • Proactively analyze margin, COGS, vendor spend, and freight to find inefficiencies and cost leaks • Bring management specific, actionable ways to save money without being asked • Manage cash reporting, AR aging, vendor terms, and inputs to forecasting and the line of credit • Own sales tax, 1099s, and internal controls • Keep the company diligence-ready as it raises capital • Own and run the cloud finance stack including Xero and Airtable with disciplined, well-documented books • Build and maintain live dashboards and trackers for close status, AR aging, deductions and recovery, cash, and margin so the team sees the numbers without asking • Connect and automate across systems including the ledger, banks, Airtable, deduction management, OCR, and settlement tooling so data flows without manual re-keying • Use Claude daily as a real working tool to reconcile, categorize, draft dispute packages, and speed up analysis, and design repeatable documented processes around it

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or a related field • At least 5 years of full-cycle accounting experience including running a monthly close and preparing financial statements • CPG, FMCG, food and beverage, or consumer goods experience strongly preferred • Working command of US GAAP and US accounting standards with experience supporting US-based companies • Genuinely cloud-native and tech-savvy — strong with spreadsheets and cloud accounting, able to build dashboards, integrate tools, and work AI-first • Comfortable owning and running a Xero and Airtable stack, not just operating inside it • Exposure to trade spend, deductions, and distributor and retailer chargeback disputes, or the ability to get up to speed fast and run that workflow across a distributed team • Excellent written and spoken English with strong, proactive communication across time zones • Flags issues early and closes loops without being asked.

🏖️ Benefits

• Paid Time Off in accordance with company policy • Observance of Holidays per company guidelines • 100% remote setup so you can work wherever you're most productive • This role requires availability during US business hours • Real room to grow as the company scales, including eventually running the entire system independently