Financial controller in startups

First, the Network School is a school for the dark talent. We recruit founders from around the world to build tech companies, digital currencies, and internet communities. Second, the Network School is a startup society that itself bootstraps startup societies. We host digital nomads and remote workers, online creators and open source developers, all of whom want to join our new society and help build other new societies from the ground up.

• Run a disciplined monthly close process across all entities and currencies.
• Prepare timely, accurate management accounts (P&L, balance sheet, cash flow) that can be shared with founders, investors, and other stakeholders.
• Ensure every transaction is correctly coded in the general ledger.
• Perform and document reconciliations for bank accounts, wallets, payables, receivables, intercompany balances, and key control accounts.
• Produce monthly and quarterly management reporting packs, including variance analyses vs budget and prior periods.
• Work with leadership to refine reporting so it’s decision-useful while still grounded in solid accounting.
• Coordinate with external auditors and tax advisors, responding to queries and resolving issues.
• Support preparation of statutory financial statements and ensure compliance with relevant filing requirements.
• Oversee accounts payable and accounts receivable to ensure accuracy and timeliness.
• Ensure all payments follow documented approval workflows and are correctly recorded.
• Help maintain clean vendor and customer records.
• While the role is primarily historical, you’ll support leadership with actuals vs budget reporting and help ensure that budget assumptions reconcile to reality.
• Provide historical analyses and insights that inform future planning, without needing to own the entire FP&A function.
• Help maintain an investor-ready financial data room (trial balances, management accounts, audit reports, key schedules).
• Make sure that at any point in time, the Network School’s finances can withstand the scrutiny of founders, investors, auditors, and regulators.

• A formal accounting qualification is a must (e.g. CA, CPA, ACCA or equivalent).
• Strong working knowledge of IFRS, including revenue recognition, capitalisation vs expensing, and consolidation.
• Proficiency with modern accounting systems (e.g. Xero), Excel/Sheets at an advanced level (pivot tables, lookups, basic modelling), and comfort integrating with other systems (payment processors, banks, payroll, etc).
• Month-end and year-end close, Reconciliations across multiple data sources, Preparation of Management accounts, Statutory accounts support, Audit preparation and file management.
• Experience setting up and operating financial controls, approval workflows, and documentation that can withstand due diligence and external audits.
• You are extremely detail oriented and organised.
• You like closing the books, producing clean management accounts, and making sure every transaction is properly recorded and reconciled.
• You enjoy taking chaos (multiple entities, multiple currencies, multiple systems) and turning it into a single source of truth that an auditor, a regulator, or a founder can all rely on.
• Most importantly, you’ve actually run the numbers before.
• Whatever it is, you’ve owned a finance function at a deep, hands-on level.
• Будет плюсом: Experience with crypto/web3 accounting (wallet reconciliations, token/fiat flows, exchange accounts), multi-entity/multi-currency structures, and working with venture-backed or high-growth companies

• In addition to salary and equity, you’ll get a full membership on site at the Network School, eliminating most daily expenses.
• That includes room, breakfast/lunch/dinner, wifi, 24/7 gym, and more.