Financial Controller Lead

Accountabilities

• Act as the primary finance business partner to executive leadership and functional teams, providing financial insights that support strategic and operational decisions.

• Lead budgeting, forecasting, and long-range financial planning processes to ensure alignment with business objectives.

• Develop financial models to evaluate strategic initiatives, new products, pricing strategies, market expansion, and investment opportunities.

• Monitor business performance, identify trends and financial risks, and recommend actions to improve growth, profitability, and operational efficiency.

• Build and maintain executive dashboards, key performance indicators, and reporting tools to measure financial and operational performance.

• Conduct variance analysis and provide recommendations to optimize revenue, gross margin, operating expenses, and cash flow.

• Partner with Product, Sales, Marketing, Technology, and Operations teams to assess business cases, prioritize investments, and allocate resources effectively.

• Support board presentations, investor reporting, due diligence activities, and other strategic financial communications.

• Improve financial planning, reporting, and analytics through automation, standardized processes, and scalable systems.

• Collaborate with Accounting to support accurate month-end closing, financial reporting, and compliance with internal controls.

• Analyze relevant technology and subscription business metrics, including annual recurring revenue (ARR), monthly recurring revenue (MRR), customer acquisition cost (CAC), customer lifetime value (LTV), churn, retention, and unit economics.

• Contribute to strategic initiatives such as international expansion, partnerships, mergers and acquisitions, and the development of new business models.

• Promote financial accountability across the organization while enabling teams to make timely, informed decisions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related discipline.

• At least seven years of professional experience in business controlling, financial planning and analysis (FP&A), strategic finance, or corporate finance, preferably within a high-growth technology company or startup.

• Strong financial modeling, budgeting, forecasting, and business analysis capabilities.

• Proven experience partnering with senior executives and cross-functional leadership teams.

• Solid understanding of business performance drivers and digital business models.

• Advanced Excel skills and the ability to develop sophisticated financial models.

• Fluency in using AI tools to support financial analysis, productivity, and decision-making.

• Experience with ERP, financial planning, and business intelligence platforms, such as Microsoft Dynamics, NetSuite, Oracle, SAP, Workday Adaptive Planning, Power BI, Looker, Tableau, or similar tools.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to turn complex data into clear, actionable business insights.

• Strong communication and presentation skills, including the confidence to present financial results and recommendations to executives, investors, and board members.

• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-changing, ambiguous environment while maintaining a hands-on approach.

• Demonstrated experience building and improving scalable financial processes within a growing organization.

• Strong project management, stakeholder management, and collaboration skills.

• High level of ownership, curiosity, adaptability, and commitment to continuous improvement.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in fintech, blockchain, Web3, digital assets, or cryptocurrency-related businesses.

• Familiarity with token economics, digital asset accounting, or cryptocurrency market dynamics.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation:A competitive compensation package, with specific salary details to be confirmed during recruitment.

• Fully remote work:Work remotely from Brazil, within the company's remote-work arrangements for Europe and Latin America.

• Global coworking access:Access to coworking spaces around the world.

• Work-life balance:Paid vacation and sick leave.

• Continuous learning:Access to training programs, language courses, and annual learning sponsorship opportunities.

• Innovative projects:Opportunities to contribute to blockchain and digital asset technology initiatives.

• International collaboration:Work with a globally distributed team across a dynamic technology environment.

• Strategic impact:Play a key role in financial decision-making, business performance management, and long-term growth initiatives.