Controller (US GAAP exp needed)
Somewhere
🇿🇦 Hirezar Summary for South African Applicants
This fully remote full time position at Somewhere is open to applicants from South Africa. The estimated monthly salary is R55,500 – R111,000 ZAR. This role is suited for senior-level professionals. As a remote position, you can work from anywhere in South Africa — whether you're based in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, or a smaller town.
Job Description
Role: Controller
Working Hours: Full-time, overlap with Monday to Friday 9 am to 5 pm EST/CST.
Salary: $3,500 - $6,000/month depending on experience
Type of contract: Independent Contractor | Remote
Our firm is seeking a Controller to join our small team of financial professionals dedicated to the behavioral health industry. We partner with mental health and addiction treatment facilities to provide world-class financial infrastructure, ensuring their focus remains on patient care.This is a full-time opportunity to be part of something bigger than yourself, managing the full-cycle accounting across our portfolio of clients, making a direct impact on the financial health of organizations that change lives.
We are looking for a finance professional who embodies the following core competencies and attributes:
* Discipline & Self-Efficacy: Commitment to maintaining high standards of operational excellence, ensuring systematic thought, and a resourceful attitude.
* Resilience & Grit: Able to handle urgent financial situations with level-headedness, lack of panic, and a focus on solutions.
* Curiosity & Adaptability: Loves learning, improving, and continuously improving processes, with genuine excitement for leveraging AI and cutting-edge tools to increase portfolio scalability.
* Teamability: Excellent English proficiency (written and verbal), necessary to supervise bookkeepers and clearly explain the story behind the numbers.
* Integrity & Professionalism: Upholds ethical standards and prioritizes the financial well-being of the client portfolio.
A typical day as the Controller includes:
* Portfolio Oversight: Managing the full-cycle accounting for a portfolio of behavioral health clients.
* Hard Close: Ensuring a "Hard Close" is consistently achieved by the 5th business day of each month.
* Team Leadership: Supervising and mentoring a team of bookkeepers, performing high-level reviews of their work in QuickBooks Online (QBO).
* Cash Flow Architecture: Maintaining and updating weekly 6-month rolling cash forecasts, navigating a high-complexity reimbursement environment.
* Tech Stack Optimization: Utilizing and optimizing firm and client tech stack to skyrocket efficiency and remain lean.
* Data Integrity: Ensuring all financial data is "dashboard-ready" for dashboard integration, specifically tracking clinical KPIs alongside financial metrics.
* Operational Cadence: Being available to overlap with US Eastern/Central business hours, and maintaining high accountability using tools to manage strict deadlines and Loom for training and feedback.
Qualifications & Experience
* Expertise: Expert-level understanding of US accounting principles (US GAAP), including complex intercompany transactions.
* Software Power User: Deep expertise in QuickBooks Online, including advanced app integrations (Ramp, Bill.com, Rippling).
* Industry Context: Familiarity with the unique billing cycles of mental health or addiction treatment facilities is a significant advantage.
* Automation: Proven history of leveraging AI tools and QBO automation to reduce manual entry and increase portfolio scalability.
* Language: Excellent English proficiency (written and verbal).
Tips for South African Applicants
Timezone Advantage
South Africa (SAST, UTC+2) overlaps well with European business hours and has a few hours of overlap with US East Coast. Mention your timezone flexibility in your application.
Salary in Context
At R55,500/month, this role pays well above the average South African remote salary. The USD equivalent ($3,000/mo) benefits from the favourable exchange rate.
Application Tips
Tailor your CV to international standards — use a clean format, highlight remote work experience, and include your English proficiency. Many SA applicants succeed by emphasising their strong work ethic and cultural adaptability.
Load Shedding Preparedness
If you're applying for a remote role, having a backup power solution (UPS, inverter, or generator) and mobile data as a backup internet connection shows employers you're prepared for South Africa's infrastructure challenges.
About Somewhere
Somewhere is a company in the Recruitment & Staffing industry that hires remote workers from South Africa. They currently have 601 open positions on Hirezar. View all Somewhere jobs →