Financial Controller, Trilogy (Remote) Full Time

About the job
Crossover is the world’s #1 source of remote full-time jobs. Our clients offer top-tier pay for top-tier talent. We’re recruiting this role for our client, Trilogy. Have you got what it takes?

Are you the star controller on your team, the one who never makes a mistake? Do you feel at home when you’re at your computer, digging into the details of account reconciliations, financial statements, and reports? Are you looking for a company that has successfully automated the accounting drudgery that most Finance organizations do manually so that you can focus on what really matters? If so, we want you to join our 100% remote corporate Finance group.

Trilogy is one of the largest privately-held software groups in the world and we are adding new companies to our portfolio weekly. We are rapidly building a community of the world’s smartest and best Finance professionals, and we need outstanding controllers to catch each and every mistake, oversight and slip-up before they reach our leaders and auditors.

What You Will Be Doing

Your main mission will be to perform Quality Control (QC) reviews of account reconciliations, financial statements and reports produced by our accountants. You will use your outstanding technical knowledge and expertise in US GAAP to certify our accountants’ work against a defined quality bar, identify all errors, make a Pass/Fail decision, and support Fails with reasons so that the accountants can fix the mistakes you found.

What You Won’t Be Doing
Randomly deciding what work activities to perform on any given day
Spending hours in meetings each day talking about the work to be performed
Solely focusing on process improvements
Dealing with HR/administrative burdens, like annual performance reviews

Financial Controller Key Responsibilities

Performing QC reviews of accountants’ work by:
Identifying all errors in account reconciliations, financial statements and reports
Ensuring compliance with US GAAP, following standardized formats that will pass an external audit
Making a Pass/Fail decision, and documenting reasons for any Fails

Basic Requirements
Accounting, Finance, Economics or Math/Science degree.
Qualified as a CPA, ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CFA or MBA
Experience working in a Finance or Accounting role for a USD $100M+ organization
Worked on at least 10 audits as a client or auditor with a Big 4 Accounting firm

Nice-to-have Requirements
Great working knowledge of Oracle NetSuite

About Trilogy

Hundreds of software businesses run on the Trilogy Business Platform. For three decades, Trilogy has been known for 3 things: Relentlessly seeking top talent, Innovating new technology, and incubating new businesses. Our technological innovation is spearheaded by a passion for simple customer-facing designs. Our incubation of new businesses ranges from entirely new moon-shot ideas to rearchitecting existing projects for today’s modern cloud-based stack. Trilogy is a place where you can be surrounded with great people, be proud of doing great work, and grow your career by leaps and bounds.

There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited. Hit the Apply button if you found this interesting and want to learn more. We look forward to meeting you!

What to expect next:
You will receive an email with a link to start your self-paced, online job application.
Our hiring platform will guide you through a series of online “screening” assessments to check for basic job fit, job-related skills, and finally a few real-world job-specific assignments.
You will be paired up with one of our recruiting specialists who can answer questions you might have about the process, role, or company, and help you get to the final interview step.

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Crossover Job Code: LJ-4380-KE-Nairobi-FinancialContr.044