Founding Finance Manager

Everis

Founding Finance Manager building finance structures for software companies. Involved in accounting, acquisitions, and financial strategy with a founder-led approach.

Posted 7/9/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesJunior💰 $30,000 - $50,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates strong accounting mechanics, including reconciliations, reporting, and books cleanup, while effectively utilizing tools like QuickBooks and Xero. Exhibits high integrity and professional skepticism, ensuring accurate financial analysis and compliance in a dynamic environment.

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CPA or EquivalentReconciliationsFinancial ReportingUS GAAP ExposureProfessional Skepticism

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Hard Skills

Accounting StructuresChart of AccountsProfit and Loss ReportingClose DisciplineBooks CleanupIntercompany BalancesScenario ModelingFinancial AnalysisPerformance TrackingCost Allocation

Soft Skills

Attention to DetailProactiveDeterminedExcellent Written EnglishHigh Integrity

Tools & Technologies

QuickBooksXeroSpreadsheetsGoogle DriveAI Tools

Certifications & Qualifications

CPA

Industry Keywords

US-Focused AccountingBig 4 AuditComplianceFinancial StrategyAdministrative Load Reduction

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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

Comp & perks

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.