Financial Controller

🕒 September 17

🌐 Germany, Italy, +4 more countries – Remote

🇩🇪 Germany – Remote 🇮🇹 Italy – Remote 🇨🇭 Switzerland – Remote 🇮🇪 Ireland – Remote 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote 🇫🇷 France – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⛔️ Financial Controller

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Hilo by Aktiia

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2018

🏥 Healthcare

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Healthcare • Artificial Intelligence

Hilo by Aktiia is a healthcare company focused on transforming blood pressure monitoring through innovative, AI-powered technology. Established in 2018, Hilo offers cuffless solutions that provide continuous and accessible insights for both individuals and healthcare professionals. With a foundation model trained on extensive datasets, involving billions of optical signals, the company is redefining hypertension management and contributing to the field through numerous peer-reviewed publications and patents. Headquartered in Switzerland, Hilo is on a mission to improve global health outcomes related to blood pressure.

📋 Description

• Own the monthly, quarterly and annual closing process across the Group • Coordinate accounting across multiple legal entities and jurisdictions, ensuring consistent practices and timely reporting • Supervise the day-to-day accounting activities of a two-person team covering revenue, COGS, inventory, payroll, accruals, prepayments, fixed assets and general ledger accounting • Review journal entries, account reconciliations, supporting documentation and balance sheet accounts • Maintain the closing calendar, responsibilities and controls • Improve the speed, quality and reliability of the close • Act as a key Finance contact for annual audits and reviews • Partner with FP&A to ensure timely, accurate and consistent financial reporting • Own monthly Group consolidation across multiple entities and currencies • Manage intercompany entries, reconciliations and eliminations • Review foreign currency translation and consolidation adjustments • Coordinate VAT compliance and supervise VAT returns and reconciliations • Ensure correct VAT treatment of D2C, B2B, ecommerce and subscription transactions • Coordinate indirect tax obligations, including GST and sales tax where applicable • Support corporate income tax filings, tax provisions and local tax requirements • Maintain the compliance calendar and support transfer pricing and intercompany recharges • Own accounting and financial reporting processes within NetSuite • Improve automation across reconciliations, consolidation, reporting and recurring accounting activities • Ensure accurate financial data flows from ecommerce, logistics, payroll, banking and operational systems into Finance • Document Finance processes and accounting policies with appropriate audit trails • Use AI and automation to reduce manual work and enable exception-based accounting • Design AI-enabled workflows for reconciliations, intercompany matching, VAT reviews, transaction classification, closing controls and anomaly detection • Use AI to investigate financial data and unusual transactions while maintaining human oversight • Build reusable Finance workflows, agents and controls • Ensure controls, documentation, data protection and human validation for AI-enabled processes • Measure improvements through shorter closing timelines, fewer manual reconciliations, reduced errors and increased Finance capacity • Report to the VP Finance and collaborate with Finance, Operations, Sales, Growth, People, external accountants, tax advisors and auditors

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in accounting, audit (Big 4), financial controlling or a similar Finance role, ideally in an international environment • Strong technical accounting knowledge and understanding of P&L, balance sheet and cash flow accounting • Hands-on experience owning or coordinating monthly and annual financial closings • Experience with multiple legal entities and intercompany accounting • Strong understanding of financial controls (incl Sox environments) and audit requirements • Experience working with ERP systems and investigating transactions directly within the system • Strong Excel / Google Sheets skills and confidence working with large financial datasets • Excellent written and spoken English • A hands-on, ownership-driven approach and the ability to investigate issues and identify root causes • Interest in using AI, automation and new technologies to improve Finance processes and reduce manual work • CPA, ACCA, ACA, Swiss Certified Expert in Accounting and Controlling or equivalent qualification (nice to have) • Experience with NetSuite and Aleph (nice to have) • Experience with multi-entity and multi-currency consolidation (nice to have) • Experience in an international scale-up or fast-growing company (nice to have) • Experience with VAT compliance across several European jurisdictions (nice to have) • Experience with US sales tax, Australian GST or other international indirect tax regimes (nice to have) • Experience with inventory accounting and product COGS (nice to have) • Experience with AI, workflow automation, data analytics or other Finance automation tools (nice to have) • Applicants must already hold a valid visa or work permit for their country of residence; Hilo is not able to provide visa sponsorship

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity program • Other benefits (depending on location) • Work on a mission that matters: transforming cardiovascular health at global scale • Be part of a high-impact, fast-growing, and venture-backed scale-up company • Collaborate with a diverse, passionate, and talented team