Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Everis is a founder-led business focused on buying, operating, and improving small software companies and apps for the long term. They are seeking a Founding Finance Manager to build the finance function, design accounting structures, and support acquisitions while working closely with the founder.
Responsibilities
- Design and improve accounting structures, chart of accounts, reporting lines, and internal accounts for existing businesses, new entities, and acquired companies
- Set up and clean up books for new or early-stage companies, including making sure each business line can be understood separately
- Build useful profit and loss reporting by company, app, and business line, including revenue, costs, CAC/LTV, ROI, allocations, and performance trends where relevant
- Run and improve close, reconciliations, intercompany balances, recharges, allocations, documentation, and recurring reporting across multiple entities
- Investigate accounting problems where the numbers do not add up: misallocated expenses, missing records, unusual transactions, and occasionally potential fraud
- Support acquisition work: target analysis, diligence, seller number verification, scenario modeling, and post-acquisition performance tracking
- Coordinate with bookkeepers, accountants, tax advisors, and operating teams so the finance function becomes reliable without constant founder involvement
- Stay across company maintenance, compliance, tax efficiency, entity structure, and advisor follow-through, especially for US-facing work
- Find practical ways to save money, improve financial strategy, reduce administrative load, and increase profits through better information and better structure
- Use QuickBooks, Xero, spreadsheets, Google Drive records, bank statements, and AI tools to reconcile, analyze, document, and improve the finance function
- Stay flexible and take on additional responsibilities as the role and company needs evolve
Skills
- Objective evidence of exceptional ability. Latin honors, class rank, CPA board rating of 88+ or a topnotcher placement, national competition results, or equivalent — tell us specifically in your application
- 1–4 years of experience, ideally Big 4 audit, US-focused accounting, or similarly rigorous finance work. Exceptional fresh graduates will be considered
- Strong accounting mechanics: reconciliations, reporting, books cleanup, close discipline, and comfort learning new systems quickly
- Professional skepticism: you notice what doesn't add up, and you are comfortable asking direct questions of people who would rather not answer them
- Determined — the person who refuses to give up on a hard problem long after most people would have stopped
- Highly proactive: you have a track record of doing important things nobody asked you to do
- Very smart and quick to learn; able to figure things out independently in areas you've never touched before
- Excellent written English — you can explain a complex finance issue in plain words to a non-finance founder
- High integrity — non-negotiable. You will handle confidential information and sometimes deliver unwelcome findings, and you must stand behind them
- Extremely organized with very strong attention to detail
- Comfortable with software and AI tools, or highly motivated to become excellent at using them
- CPA or equivalent strongly preferred
- US GAAP exposure or experience serving US clients is a plus, not a requirement
Benefits
- Work directly with a successful, entrepreneurial founder and learn how companies are bought, structured, fixed, and grown.
- Make your own decisions and build the finance function the way it should be built.
- Flexible location, and significant flexibility in hours — though some overlap with US working hours is needed for the investigative and advisory parts of the role.
- A role that grows with the portfolio: toward finance leadership across multiple companies over time.
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