[Hiring] Finance Controller @Hunt St

Role Description

We’re looking for an experienced Finance Controller to take ownership of the day-to-day financial operations across the Client’s portfolio. This is a senior, autonomous role suited to someone who can manage the books end-to-end, liaise with external accountants at tax time, and bring genuine rigour to financial reporting and revenue management. In addition, this role will play a strategic finance function by delivering financial insights, forecasting, and commercial analysis to support leadership decision-making and business growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the full accounts function across multiple publishing entities
• Provide weekly and monthly financial reporting packs to leadership
• Provide top level advice to leadership on business trends and cost of revenue
• Build, maintain, and improve forecasting models for business planning
• Conduct scenario analysis and financial modelling to support strategic decision-making
• Develop dashboards and intelligence reporting to provide visibility into business performance
• Feed actual financial results into forecasting models and reconcile forecast vs actual performance, identifying key variances
• Strategic cash planning, liquidity management
• Monitor and report on cash runway planning
• Support new business modelling and commercial analysis for growth opportunities
• Analyse margin performance by product, geography, and revenue stream
• Issue and reconcile a high volume of invoices
• Record and report revenue accurately across entities
• Prepare and maintain P&L statements and balance sheets
• Manage accounts payable and receivable
• Liaise with external accountants to prepare for tax season and audits
• Oversee and direct the existing bookkeeper where required
• Process and manage payroll using ADP
• Handle bill payments and vendor management via Melio
• Maintain financial records with accuracy and timeliness

Qualifications

• Minimum 3–5 years’ experience in a controller, accountant, or senior bookkeeper role
• Proficiency in QuickBooks – essential
• Experience with ADP for payroll processing
• Experience with Melio or a comparable AP/bill payment platform (preferred, not essential)
• Strong understanding of multi-entity accounting and revenue recognition
• Strong financial modelling, forecasting, and scenario planning experience
• Experience preparing executive-level financial reports, dashboards, and business intelligence insights
• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to translate financial data into actionable business recommendations
• Experience analysing margins, profitability, and performance across multiple entities, products, or geographies
• Advanced Excel / Google Sheets financial modelling skills
• Ability to produce accurate financial reports with minimal supervision
• Excellent written and spoken English
• Comfortable working autonomously in a remote environment
• Proven experience managing high-volume invoicing environments, with the ability to accurately process and reconcile large transaction volumes across multiple entities/brands
• Comfortable working at scale in a fast-paced finance environment with high invoice throughput

Work Arrangement & Expectations

This is a remote role that will be set up as an independent contractor engagement. To ensure alignment and transparency, successful candidates will be expected to:

• Disclose any existing ongoing roles or client work
• Reflect this engagement on their LinkedIn profile (clearly marked as “Independent Contractor”)