Controller Fintech, Remote

About Our Client

Our client is building modern financial infrastructure focused on earned wage access, payments, and employer-linked financial products. They operate in a highly operational environment involving sponsor banks, card issuing, ACH/payment flows, and consumer financial products.

The Role

Our client is looking for a hands-on Controller to build and scale the accounting, reporting, and finance operations foundation of the company. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in fast-moving fintech environments and enjoys solving operational and reconciliation complexity, not just running a monthly close.

You will work closely with leadership and have significant ownership over accounting operations, financial controls, banking and payments reconciliation, audit readiness, and finance infrastructure.

Responsibilities

Core Accounting and Financial Operations

• Own monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes

• Maintain accurate GAAP-compliant financial statements

• Manage general ledger, journal entries, accruals, prepaid schedules, and reconciliations

• Oversee AR/AP, payroll accounting, and treasury-related accounting workflows

• Build scalable accounting processes and internal controls appropriate for a growing fintech company

Payments and Reconciliation Infrastructure

• Own reconciliation processes across ACH/money transfer activity, card issuing and processor settlement activity, sponsor bank reporting, and program balances and custodial/FBO accounts

• Investigate and resolve reconciliation breaks, timing mismatches, and transaction exceptions

• Partner with operations and engineering teams to improve ledger accuracy and automation

Banking, Compliance and Audit Readiness

• Support sponsor bank oversight, financial reporting requests, and operational reviews

• Prepare the company for external financial audits

• Develop documentation and controls around money movement and operational finance processes

• Assist with regulatory, compliance, and partner reporting requirements as needed

Systems and Process Development

• Improve ERP/accounting system architecture and reporting workflows

• Evaluate and implement automation opportunities across accounting and finance operations

• Establish scalable reporting packages, KPI tracking, and management reporting processes

• Help build the finance organization as the company grows

Qualifications

Required

• 8+ years of accounting and/or finance experience

• Strong knowledge of US GAAP

• Experience owning or heavily contributing to monthly close processes

• Background in fintech, payments, banking, card issuing, lending, payroll, EWA, or other money movement environments

• Strong reconciliation and operational accounting skills

• Ability to operate independently in fast-moving startup environments

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities

• Strong systems orientation and comfort working with large operational datasets

Preferred

• CPA (strongly preferred)

• Combination of public accounting and startup/in-house experience

• Experience with sponsor-bank fintech programs

• Experience with card processors, ACH operations, or payment settlement accounting

• Experience implementing or scaling NetSuite or similar ERP systems

• Experience supporting audits or regulated financial operations

What We Are Looking For

This is not a traditional back-office accounting role. Our client wants someone who enjoys operational complexity, can build processes from scratch, is comfortable in ambiguous startup environments, and can help create the financial infrastructure needed to scale a regulated fintech business. The ideal candidate combines strong accounting fundamentals with operational judgment and a builder mindset.

For more information, please contact Tim Swanson at tim@corporate.bc.ca