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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $140k - $180k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⛔️ Financial Controller

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Reflective

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1 - 10 employees

🔬 Science

🌍 Social Impact

Environment • Science • Social Impact

Reflective is a philanthropically-funded initiative aimed at equipping the world with data and tools necessary for informed decision-making regarding sunlight reflection. With a mission to accelerate responsible research in sunlight reflection, Reflective acknowledges the critical role this research plays in addressing climate change impacts. The organization emphasizes transparency, collaboration, and objectivity in its work, focusing on developing a knowledge base and technological advancements for scientifically-informed decisions about potential implementation.

📋 Description

• Own the financial backbone of the organization — running our financial controls, leading budgeting and forecasting, managing all cash in and out, overseeing spend and contracts, and producing the reporting leadership, the Board, and our funders rely on. • Partner with the CEO and leadership team on the financial side of fundraising including building and maintaining the annual operating budget. • Build dashboards and reporting cadences that allow for timely, accurate financial reporting for leadership, the Board, funders, and the broader team. • Own cash-flow forecasting, runway modeling, and runway risk flagging — surface trade-offs early. • Track actuals against budget by function and program, and surface variances early.Own cash-flow forecasting, runway modeling, and budget to actuals reporting and flag risks and trade-offs early. • Translate the strategic plan and program roadmaps into financial plans, scenarios, and re-forecasts as priorities shift. • Meet restricted-fund and funder reporting obligations credibly, not just procedurally. • Manage all cash inflows and outflows — incoming grants and donations, vendor payments, and outgoing grant disbursements — and ensure commitments are tracked, paid correctly, and reflected in forecasts. • Manage financial administration across the lifecycle of all external relationships from contracting to ongoing payments, invoices, and financial reporting across grant agreements (inbound and outbound), vendor and consultant agreements, statements of work etc. • Hold function and program leads accountable to their budgets. • Oversee banking relationships, payment controls, and treasury management. • Build repeatable contracting processes and templates, and interface with external counsel on terms, compliance, and risk. • Own accounting operations end-to-end — general ledger, month-end and year-end close, reconciliations, and the integrity of our books. • Design, document, and enforce internal controls and approval workflows for expenses, corporate cards, reimbursements, and procurement that scale as we grow. • Manage the external accounting relationship and lead the annual audit and 990 processes. • Ensure compliance with GAAP, nonprofit accounting standards, and the requirements of restricted and unrestricted philanthropic funding.

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of progressive finance and accounting experience, including a controller, assistant controller, or equivalent senior role. • You've owned the full accounting cycle — close, reconciliations, audit, and reporting — for an organization, not just a piece of it. • You have deep, hands-on expertise in financial controls, budgeting, forecasting, and cash management, and strong command of GAAP. • You're exceptionally organized and detail-oriented, with strong documentation practices, while moving at the pace this organization requires. • You have excellent judgment — you're usually right, you know which details matter, and you pivot quickly when something's off. • You're a clear communicator who can translate financial complexity into plain language for non-finance colleagues, the Board, and funders. • You're low-ego, high-trust, and solution-oriented in the face of complexity and rapid change. • CPA, or an MBA / advanced finance degree is preferred. • Experience with nonprofit and fund accounting, grant administration, and the annual 990 and audit processes is preferred. • Experience standing up finance systems and controls from scratch, or scaling them through rapid growth is preferred. • Experience managing contracting and procurement, and working with external counsel is preferred. • Experience in organizations that deploy capital externally (grantmaking, VC, government grant programs) or builds in the physical world (hardware, manufacturing, research) is preferred.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision insurance • 401(k) • Professional and personal development • Generous paid time off and sick leave, including 12 weeks paid parental leave • Flexible working hours