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Controller
Portless
Remote, USA
Senior · 8+ years experience
Remote
Discovered 3 days ago
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What you bring
- CPA, CA or an equivalent designation.
- 8+ years in accounting, including at least 3 as a controller or assistant controller who owned the close.
- A start in audit at a Big 4 or mid-tier public accounting firm.
- You have owned a multi-entity, multi-currency close, including consolidation and intercompany.
- You have run billing and collections at a high-volume business that bills per order, per transaction or on usage.
- You have taken a company through a first audit or an audit-readiness cleanup, working directly with the auditors.
- You have led a team, including people in another country. You are comfortable with a lean stack and AI tools, and you keep your work auditable. Clear, direct written English.
Nice to have
- Mandarin. Most of our accounting team is in China, so this is a big plus.
- Experience in logistics, 3PL, freight forwarding, customs brokerage or cross-border e- commerce.
- Accounting for duties, VAT and tariffs paid on behalf of customers, and for transfer pricing.
- Financial due diligence or transaction services experience. An ERP implementation or migration, such as NetSuite.
- How you work
- You can't let a number go until it ties.
- You stay calm and factual when things move fast.
- You hold the line on controls, even when someone senior is asking for an exception.
- You fix the biggest problems first instead of redesigning everything at once.
- You are hands-on and low ego, and you'll do the reconciliations yourself until the team can.
- You raise bad news early and say "I don't know" when you don't.
- You manage across time zones and cultures with patience and clear writing.
- Location and hours
- This role is global and remote. What matters is overlap, not where you live: part of your working day must overlap with Eastern Time, where our merchants, auditors and lenders are, and part with China time, where most of the accounting team works.
- For example, someone in Europe or the Middle East covers both in a normal day. Someone in Toronto or New York would add a short evening call with the China team, and someone in Asia an evening call with North America. Expect occasional travel to meet the team in person.
What we offer
- A senior role with real ownership, reporting directly to a co-founder. The chance to build the finance function of a company that is doubling revenue. Competitive base salary, performance bonus and equity. Remote work on a global team, with flexible hours around the overlap windows.
- Portless is an equal opportunity employer.
Qualifications
- CPA, CA or an equivalent designation.
- 8+ years in accounting, including at least 3 as a controller or assistant controller who owned the close.
- A start in audit at a Big 4 or mid-tier public accounting firm.
- You have owned a multi-entity, multi-currency close, including consolidation and intercompany.
- You have run billing and collections at a high-volume business that bills per order, per transaction or on usage.
- You have taken a company through a first audit or an audit-readiness cleanup, working directly with the auditors.
- You have led a team, including people in another country.
- You are comfortable with a lean stack and AI tools, and you keep your work auditable. Clear, direct written English.
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