Founding Finance Manager

Role Overview

• Design and improve accounting structures, chart of accounts, reporting lines, and internal accounts for existing businesses, new entities, and acquired companies.
• Set up and clean up books for new or early-stage companies, including making sure each business line can be understood separately.
• Build useful profit and loss reporting by company, app, and business line, including revenue, costs, CAC/LTV, ROI, allocations, and performance trends where relevant.
• Run and improve close, reconciliations, intercompany balances, recharges, allocations, documentation, and recurring reporting across multiple entities.
• Investigate accounting problems where the numbers do not add up: misallocated expenses, missing records, unusual transactions, and occasionally potential fraud.
• Support acquisition work: target analysis, diligence, seller number verification, scenario modeling, and post-acquisition performance tracking.
• Coordinate with bookkeepers, accountants, tax advisors, and operating teams so the finance function becomes reliable without constant founder involvement.
• Stay across company maintenance, compliance, tax efficiency, entity structure, and advisor follow-through, especially for US-facing work.
• Find practical ways to save money, improve financial strategy, reduce administrative load, and increase profits through better information and better structure.
• Use QuickBooks, Xero, spreadsheets, Google Drive records, bank statements, and AI tools to reconcile, analyze, document, and improve the finance function.
• Stay flexible and take on additional responsibilities as the role and company needs evolve.

Requirements

• Objective evidence of exceptional ability. Latin honors, class rank, CPA board rating of 88+ or a topnotcher placement, national competition results, or equivalent — tell us specifically in your application.
• CPA or equivalent strongly preferred.
• 1–4 years of experience, ideally Big 4 audit, US-focused accounting, or similarly rigorous finance work. Exceptional fresh graduates will be considered.
• US GAAP exposure or experience serving US clients is a plus, not a requirement.
• Strong accounting mechanics: reconciliations, reporting, books cleanup, close discipline, and comfort learning new systems quickly.
• Professional skepticism: you notice what doesn’t add up, and you are comfortable asking direct questions of people who would rather not answer them.
• Determined — the person who refuses to give up on a hard problem long after most people would have stopped.
• Highly proactive: you have a track record of doing important things nobody asked you to do.
• Very smart and quick to learn; able to figure things out independently in areas you’ve never touched before.
• Excellent written English — you can explain a complex finance issue in plain words to a non-finance founder.
• High integrity — non-negotiable. You will handle confidential information and sometimes deliver unwelcome findings, and you must stand behind them.
• Extremely organized with very strong attention to detail.
• Comfortable with software and AI tools, or highly motivated to become excellent at using them.

Benefits

• Salary well above local Big 4 market, with room to grow quickly if you are excellent.
• Hard, high-trust work from day one: US-facing finance, accounting structures, acquisition diligence, and investigations — not ticking and tying.
• You will work directly with the founder and be close to real decisions about acquisitions, company structure, tax efficiency, and capital allocation.
• Deep US exposure: US companies, US accounting systems, US advisors, and US-facing communication — a resume accelerator that few local roles can match.
• You will work across a founder-led portfolio of software companies, apps, and related investment structures without being boxed into one narrow accounting lane.
• You will use modern AI tools to do the work of a much larger finance team.
• A genuine trajectory: as the portfolio grows, this role can grow toward controller-level finance leadership across multiple companies.