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🇮🇳 India – Remote

💵 $40k - $50k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

⛔️ Financial Controller

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Meltzer Hellrung

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2014

⚖️ Legal

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

Legal • SaaS • B2B

Meltzer Hellrung is a corporate immigration law firm that combines high-touch immigration expertise with a proprietary immigration management platform, Voyager®, to provide immigration services and technology to employers, employees, and families. Their offerings include US and global immigration, consular processing, I-9 and immigration compliance, immigration litigation, and an in-house immigration specialist platform. The firm emphasizes transparency, efficiency, and data-driven service for building and managing corporate immigration programs, and is recognized by industry publications and awards for its work.

📋 Description

• Lead hands-on accounting and finance operations for the law firm and related management-services entity (MSO) • Own the integrity of the general ledger, monthly close, reconciliations, financial statements, cash forecasting, and daily finance processes • Design, document, execute, and test internal accounting controls • Own annual budgeting, departmental input schedules, rolling forecasts, and budget-to-actual reporting • Maintain compliance-ready accounting records and coordinate with payroll, tax, audit, and other advisers • Perform and review monthly reconciliations for material balance-sheet accounts and resolve reconciling items • Prepare monthly financial statements and partner-ready reporting with variance explanations, assumptions, balances, and risks • Prepare and maintain 13-week cash forecasts and longer-range liquidity projections • Maintain separate entity-level accounting and consolidated management reporting, including intercompany balances and allocations • Account for legal-service revenue, reimbursable costs, government filing fees, pass-through client charges, and trust/IOLTA balances • Maintain AR aging, collections reporting, AP aging, payment controls, billing-to-cash reconciliations, and outstanding-payment reviews • Manage the monthly close calendar, assign preparer/reviewer responsibilities, complete reconciliations and adjusting entries, and deliver statements by deadlines • Establish, monitor, and enforce financial policies and procedures • Support management, attorneys, and managing partners with financial information • Create reports that help senior leadership and attorneys understand company financials • Maintain documented procedures and a register of deliverables, owners, due dates, dependencies, and unresolved issues • Own the accounting workstream for financial-systems implementations, including workflow design, master-data validation, integrations, testing, reconciliation, training, issue logs, and post-go-live controls • Own the general ledger, journal entries, accruals, account classifications, period-end adjustments, and accuracy/completeness of accounting records

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business/Accounting/Finance or a related discipline • At least 7 years of progressive accounting experience • At least 3 recent years in a hands-on Controller or Accounting Manager role with direct responsibility for close, GL, reconciliations, financial statements, and staff review • Advanced Excel proficiency, including multi-sheet financial models, linked schedules, lookup functions, pivot tables, formula auditing, and reconciling model outputs to source systems • Demonstrated ownership of accounting-process improvement and accounting-system implementation/testing • Demonstrated hands-on QuickBooks Online proficiency, including bank reconciliations, journal entries, account mapping, AR/AP, close, and reporting • Recent professional-services accounting experience required • Law firm accounting strongly preferred, including time and billing, WIP, realization, revenue recognition, reimbursable versus pass-through amounts, and government filing fees • Familiarity with trust/IOLTA accounting and multi-entity/MSO structures strongly preferred • Understanding of applicable laws and regulations • Understanding of economic principles, financial markets, and banking • Understanding of financial data analysis and reporting • Demonstrated ability to perform and supervise payroll, accounts payable, accounts receivable, bank and credit-card reconciliations, account analyses, and cash forecasting • Ability to meet a documented close calendar, prioritize competing deliverables, clearly disclose incomplete work or unverified assumptions, and escalate deadline or accuracy risks early • Proven ability to lead cross-functional accounting and systems projects with workplans, owners, milestones, testing evidence, and documented handoffs • Must be able to communicate financial information into sound business language so people of all levels can understand • Strong technical accounting judgment, attention to detail, reconciliation discipline, and ability to explain the difference between net income, cash flow, and available liquidity • Must have a quiet, confidential space to work • Must be available for at least 6 hours in US CT hours between 8AM and 5PM CT

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote, global position • Flexible work hours • Occasional after-hours and weekend work may be required • Use of personal computing equipment, telephone, multi-functioning printer and calculator • Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job