Job Summary:

The Financial Controller position is responsible for overseeing and managing the company’s finance and accounting operations, including analysis of financial records, preparing financial statements, budget and forecast preparation, ensuring compliance with global accounting standards, performing account reconciliations, and managing the month and year-end accounting processes in line with corporate ownership timelines. A key focus of this role is intermediate-to-advanced expertise in revenue recognition, including managing project and SaaS-based revenue streams in compliance with ASC 606 and IFRS 15 standards.

This role requires a proactive and detail-oriented person who can develop strong stakeholder relationships amidst a global and interconnected business group. Being able to prioritize various work activities, as well as work with ambiguity, is critical in this position. The Financial Controller role will require someone who enjoys finding solutions to complex finance and accounting challenges as the business evolves.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

People Management responsibilities the Financial Controller must maintain includes:

• Managing and leading a small team of accountants ranging from junior to senior experience levels
• Hire, train, develop and coach the work of all team members; runs
• onboarding and training programs for new team members as required
• Manage the distribution of projects and workload for all team members
• Completes individual performance assessments, provides regular
• feedback to their team and manages performance where required
• Assess the quality and output of all team members for all internal and external stakeholder projects

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Manage all global accounting operations including Billing, A/R, A/P, GL and Consolidation, Cost Accounting, Fixed asset schedules and Revenue Recognition.
• Coordinate and direct the preparation of the budget and financial forecasts and report variances.
• Prepare and publish timely monthly financial statements.
• Coordinate the preparation of regulatory reporting.
• Research technical accounting issues for compliance.
• Manage month-end and year-end close processes.
• Ensure quality control over financial transactions and financial reporting.
• Work with stakeholders to manage the internal delivery of tax compliance for multiple jurisdictions, including U.S., Australia, and the U.K.
• Manage and comply with local, state, and federal government reporting requirements and tax filings.
• Develop and document business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls.
• Perform data analysis tasks as required.
• Work with the Commercial Team to calculate, manage and process any and all Commission owed from the Biarri Networks Incentive Plan.
• In relation to internal data privacy policies and the Biarri Networks Information Classification document, the Financial Controller is responsible for maintaining, controlling and protecting the flow and existence of financial data within internal systems and software.
• Additional controller duties as necessary.

Required Skills & Abilities

• Knowledge of US payroll, applicable taxes and other regulatory reporting requirements.
• Strong understanding of the US local, state and federal compliance requirements.
• Highly competent with Microsoft Office suite including advanced Excel skills
• Proactive, ambitious, takes initiative
• Excellent communication skills
• Keenness to work both autonomously and as part of a team
• Strong attention to detail, critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Good interpersonal and organizational skills
• Great time management, planning and organization skills
• Self-awareness and empathy to maximize your user and team interactions (cross-cultural awareness)

Required Education & Experience

• Minimum 7 years professional experience held in finance and accounting positions, or demonstrated equivalent
• Bachelor's degree in accounting; or equivalent professional experience
• CA/CPA qualification preferred, but not required

What we bring to the table

• A competitive salary ($115,000 - $135,000)
• 4 weeks of vacation/year
• 10 day paid sick leave/year
• Generous insurance benefits (health, dental and vision)
• 401k with company match
• Inclusively designed paid parental leave
• 100% employer sponsored contributions towards CO FAMLI program (CO based employees only)
• A flexible, hybrid workplace culture with office in central location
• Employee assistance program
• Eligibility to participate in company annual incentive compensation plan
• Competitive referral program
• 2 day/year community volunteering opportunities
• Regularly scheduled company-sponsored social events and lunches

Who we are

Our mission at Biarri Networks is simple but not easy: close the digital divide. The past few years have proven how essential broadband access is to work, education, health and human connection.

Yet too many people have been left behind due to cost and overlooked because of bad data and bad actors. We’re here to revolutionize all that. Better, smarter, more innovative and cost-effective ways of connecting the world are possible. We’ve proven it already and we’re working on more solutions.

Our Culture:

Five core values power everything we do:

• Honor. We’re honest with each other and our clients. We do the right thing. Always.
• Power of mathematics. Math is magic. Of course, it’s real too, which is why we unlock it, leverage it and bring it to the forefront. In short, we democratize it.
• Positive impact. We aim to leave each other, our clients, our community and our planet better after every interaction.
• Freedom to innovate. Nobody has a monopoly on good ideas. Nobody. Innovation is our secret sauce.
• Purpose and intent. We get the job done. We act with a sense of urgency and efficiency.

Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.