Role in brief
Iftother seeks a senior Financial Controller to lead core accounting functions, ensuring timely and accurate financial reporting for multiple entities across various jurisdictions. This role involves managing complex financial instruments, implementing automation, and leading a small team. Ideal for a qualified accountant with significant experience in fast-paced financial environments, particularly in crypto or digital assets.
About the role
This Financial Controller role involves taking full ownership of the core accounting function, focusing on producing timely and reliable management accounts for internal decision-making. The position requires a disciplined approach to financial operations, ensuring that all books are accurate and can be confidently used by other departments, such as FP&A. Success in this role means establishing a robust accounting framework that supports rapid growth and evolving financial needs.
A key part of this position is maintaining the integrity of financial data, which includes managing accruals, reconciliations, journal entries, and intercompany accounting. The controller will also define and enforce data quality standards, especially in collaboration with Crypto Operations to accurately record on-chain transactions. This involves accounting for complex financial instruments and digital assets, ensuring compliance across multiple jurisdictions.
The role also encompasses leadership and strategic development. The Financial Controller will lead, mentor, and grow a small accounting team, while driving the adoption of AI and automation within finance operations. A significant objective is to prepare the function for investor diligence by year-end, partnering with various internal and external stakeholders to achieve this goal.
The salary for this position ranges from $98,000 to $162,000.
Skills that matter here
- Core Accounting: This role is responsible for establishing and leading the entire core accounting function, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
- Multi-entity: The position requires managing financial operations and statutory filings for multiple entities across different jurisdictions.
- Digital asset accounting: The controller must confidently account for complex financial instruments, including digital assets, options, FX hedges, and DeFi positions.
- Financial controls framework: A core responsibility is to own and implement a robust financial controls framework, including segregation of duties and periodic reviews.
- Team leadership: The role involves leading, mentoring, and developing a small accounting team, as well as planning for its expansion.
- Automation: The controller is expected to drive the adoption of AI and modern automation across all finance operations.
Who this role suits
- A qualified accountant with a senior qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA) and significant post-qualification experience.
- Someone with a background in financial services, trading, banking, or hedge funds, comfortable in a fast-moving finance environment.
- A leader who is also hands-on, capable of both strategic oversight and direct operational involvement.
- An individual with a strong bias for structure, automation, and a forward-looking perspective on finance operations.
From the employer
- Own the monthly close and the timely publication of clean management accounts to FP&A on the agreed cadence.
- Own the integrity and quality of the books - accruals, reconciliations, journal entries, intercompany.
- Define and enforce the data-quality boundary with Crypto Operations.
- Own the statutory accounts and local filings for each of the group's sister entities across multiple jurisdictions.
- Account confidently for complex financial instruments and digital-asset positions.
- Own the financial-controls framework.
- Lead, mentor and develop the small accounting team.
- Drive the adoption of AI and modern automation across Finance operations.
- Establish the function in a posture that is verifiably investor-diligence-ready by year-end.
- Partner with FP&A, Treasury / Crypto Operations, and external service providers.
- Recognised senior accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA or international equivalent).
- Significant post-qualification experience in industry - financial services, trading, banking, hedge funds, or a similarly fast-moving in-house Finance environment.
- Hands-on group controllership at multi-entity, multi-jurisdiction scale.
- Comfortable accounting for complex financial instruments.
- Leader who is also operator.
- Direct, accountable communicator.
- Strong bias for structure, automation and a forward view on where Finance is going.
- Competitive salary range of $98K-$162K.
- Remote work opportunity.
- Opportunity to lead and develop a small team.
- Engage in innovative finance operations with a focus on automation and AI adoption.
Questions about this role
What is the remote work policy for this position?
This is a fully remote work opportunity.
What is the seniority level for this role?
This is a senior-level position.
What specific skills are required for this role?
Key requirements include a senior accounting qualification, significant experience in financial services or similar fast-paced environments, multi-entity group controllership, and comfort with complex financial instruments and digital asset accounting.