EcomCFO is seeking an exceptionally organized accounting leader to provide client facing fractional Controllership services to our e-commerce clients.
As Director of Accounting you will lead multiple teams of Accountants, Bookkeepers, and other specialists providing outsourced accounting services to a portfolio of e-commerce clients.
Success in this role will require both depth and breadth of experience.You will have demonstrable mastery of both financial and operational aspects of inventory and logistics, supply chain management, manufacturing, and e-commerce revenue operations. Your expertise in the application of GAAP within e-commerce, consumer packaged goods, and retail environments will be a cornerstone of your ability to lead and mentor your team and provide guidance to your clients.
Your previous, progressive experience as a Director of Accounting, Controller, VP of Financial Operations, or similar fractional role in financial services will highlight your success building out financial operations and multi-department accounting teams for growth oriented companies with a significant ecommerce presence.
Someone who is successful in this role, will have exceptional organizational skills, attention to, and capacity for retaining details in order to manage accounting operations across 15-20 clients via5-10 direct reports. You will lead a fractional finance and accounting team, making sure that everything is attended to and running smoothly.You will be passionate about learning, curious by nature, and a determined puzzle solver.You appreciate and thrive in an environment where no two days are ever the same.
This is a full time, remote position.
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About the Company:
EcomCFO is an outsourced CFO and Financial Services firm providing best in class service to high growth e-commerce companies, with 10MM+ revenue.Founded in 2019, we are a fully remote firm, based in Austin TX.Learn more about our team and offerings here: https://ecomcfo.co/
Responsibilities:
- Principal ownership of accounting service delivery for a portfolio of client companies including the management of multiple internal and external accounting teams in the provision of weekly, monthly, and year-end accounting activities.
- Ability to speak comfortably and accurately to matters at the intersection of GAAP, accounting, and client operations with both internal and external constituencies including client executives, boards of directors, commercial contacts, and external CPA’s
- Maintains a deep and fundamental understanding of how each client’s operations translate into specific numbers on the profit and loss and balance sheet; demonstrates mastery of GAAP, materiality, and each client’s level of conformity
- Management of team staffing resources to ensure timely, accurate deliverables; but also balanced workloads, client rotation, and growth and development opportunities.Offering subject matter expertise and fosteringan ask me anything, learning first work environment.
- Leads and contributes to the development and management of processes to ensure timely and accurate delivery of all periodic reporting, client onboarding, audits and other deliverables with an emphasis on continuous improvement,process reassessment, development, and streamlining.
- Leadership in the development and management of client knowledge base standards including client process documentation, and internal accounting standards, processes, training materials, and guides.
- Ability to ‘see’ beyond the surface and uncover unseen accounting issues; assess client financial operations and identify areas for improvement and optimization;institution of new processes, solutions, and the elevation ofimportant findings to the broader team as teachable moments or case studies.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree required. MBA or CPA desired.
- 10+ years of progressive experience building accounting and financial operations and leading accounting teams for 10MM+ e-commerce and/or retail companies, or:equivalent experience leading client facing teams within the financial services/accounting industry.
- Mastery of GAAP and its application to supply chain management, inventory, logistics, and revenue and expense recognition, all in an e-commerce environment.
- Expertise required in ERP systems, QBO and Netsuite desired; Excel;Shopify and Amazon Seller Central; project management tools; additional Saas and systems used in a modern financial operations environment
- Must be professional and polished and able to present complex financial information in language readily understandable by a variety of internal and external constituencies.
- Strong leadership and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across teams; Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
Perks & Benefits:
- PTO - 15 days during the first year, 20 days afterward
- 401(k) & company match (3%) >>> US only
- Annual performance bonus
- We offer a budget for external courses and training
- Annual company retreat
- Fully remote role
Core Culture & Values:
Here’s a look at our guidingprinciples and standards of operation:
- We do great work
- We are biased towards action
- We legitimately enjoy working together and take responsibility for our culture
- We are inquisitive, precise in our communication and emotionally intelligent in our interactions
- We are confident enough in our work to respectfully disagree and thoughtful enough to understand we may be wrong
- We actively seek knowledge and improvement
- We embrace change
- We build the firm we want to work in
