Head of Finance, Senior Financial Controller
Downtown Development District of New Orleans
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
About the role
- Own the finance function and build a boring, reliable system that gives leadership clean, on-time numbers and zero surprises
- Lead a small existing team and upgrade the processes
- Closing the month within 3 business days with accurate P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow
- Maintaining 95%+ collections within 14 days and a clear overdue pipeline
- Delivering error-free commission runs for sales and CSM teams (<1% adjustments)
- Maintaining a clean, reconciled view of LTV, churn, and gross profit per customer for decision-making
- Proactively improving profitability by identifying profit leaks, unnecessary spend, and quick-win optimizations
- Continuously upgrading our data tracking and reporting so leadership has simple, reliable metrics to make faster, better decisions
Requirements
- 5+ years in controllership / senior accounting / finance-ops roles / CFO
- Experience with recurring revenue (coaching, SaaS, agency, or similar)
- Strong hands-on skills with QuickBooks, Stripe (or similar processors), and spreadsheets
- Very tech savvy with Google Sheets or Excel, reporting, and automation tools such as Zapier or Make to build smart integrations and reduce manual work
- Proven track record owning month-end close, commissions, and collections
- High attention to detail, process-driven, and comfortable setting standards and saying “no” to bad data.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Flexible work arrangements
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
financial reportingmonth-end closeP&Lbalance sheetcash flowcollectionsprofitability analysisdata trackingreportingautomation
Soft skills
leadershipattention to detailprocess-drivendecision-makingproblem-solving