IFT
financial services
FinancialController
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“Financial Controller at IFT. Skills: Own the monthly close, Own the integrity and quality of the books, Account confidently for complex financial instruments and digital-asset positions, Own the financial-controls framework, Lead, mentor and develop the small accounting team, Drive the adoption of AI and modern automation across Finance operations, Establish the function in a posture that is verifiably investor-diligence-ready. Own the monthly close and the timely publication of clean management”
What You'll Achieve.
timely management accounts delivered to FP; reliable books that downstream consumers can build on; problems owned and resolved within the function; Management accounts are the headline priority; close cadence and data-quality standard are set to serve internal decision-making; verifiably investor-diligence-ready by year-end; maintain that posture as the business scales; fluency with the instruments and the judgement to handle whatever arrives in the books; design controls and close routines that work without you; progressively removing low-level work from the team and freeing capacity for higher-value activity
Industry & Context.
owned and resolved within the function; Hands-on enough to fix anything yourself; progressively removing low-level work from the team and freeing capacity for higher-value activity; spotting opportunities
multi-entity, multi-jurisdiction group of sister companies, remote team across multiple time zones, background check might be required
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Direct experience accounting for digital assets and DeFi positions, Experience preparing a Finance function for first-time external investor diligence on a finite timeline, Experience leading a small remote team across multiple time zones
Nice to Have
exposure to Cryptio, Bitwave, Tres, or equivalent sub-ledgers, familiarity with token accounting (own-token holdings, vesting schedules, governance tokens, token-for-equity), Familiarity with the broader Finance stack - accounting systems, AP automation, sub-ledger integrations, reporting workflows
What You'll Do.
Own the monthly close and the timely publication of clean management accounts to FP
Own the integrity and quality of the books - accruals
Account confidently for complex financial instruments and digital-asset positions - options and FX hedges
native token operations - and the IFRS / US GAAP treatments these require
Own the financial-controls framework - segregation of duties
mentor and develop the small accounting team
with capacity and intent to expand
Drive the adoption of AI and modern automation across Finance operations
Establish the function in a posture that is verifiably investor-diligence-ready by year-end
and maintain that posture as the business scales
Personally close the books some months
file stat accounts hands-on
and write the rare technical-accounting memo
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
coordinate with local accountancy firms where useful; partner with FP; partner with internal technical resources; partner effectively with the technical resources who build the tooling
Communication Scope
Direct, accountable communicator; surface problems early with proposed fixes; take responsibility when something goes wrong; own the quality of what leaves your function
Process & Methodology
compress over time as systems, controls and team capability mature, progressively removing low-level work from the team and freeing capacity for higher-value activity, Pace calibrated to what the function can absorb at the time, maintain that posture as the business scales, design controls and close routines that work without you, sponsoring the work
Full Job Description
The role: We are building a Core Accounting function with the pace and discipline of an in-house Finance team in financial services or trading - timely management accounts delivered to FP reliable books that downstream consumers can build on; problems owned and resolved within the function. This is a senior, autonomous hire who takes ownership of the close and the integrity of the books across a multi-entity, multi-jurisdiction group of sister companies. Management accounts are the headline priority - the close cadence and data-quality standard are set to serve internal decision-making first; statutory treatments wrap around that, not the other way around. Responsibilities: Own the monthly close and the timely publication of clean management accounts to FP the cycle is then expected to compress over time as systems, controls and team capability mature Own the integrity and quality of the books - accruals, reconciliations, journal entries, intercompany - to a standard that supports confident downstream use by FP coordinate with local accountancy firms where useful, expanding the network where it improves throughput or quality Account confidently for complex financial instruments and digital-asset positions - options and FX hedges, DeFi positions, native token operations - and the IFRS / US GAAP treatments these require. Use Cryptio (and any external technical-accounting advice you commission) effectively Own the financial-controls framework - segregation of duties, control owners, periodic review - and bring discipline and structure to the function Lead, mentor and develop the small accounting team, with capacity and intent to expand. Hands-on enough to fix anything yourself, with a team that does the low-level work as it scales Drive the adoption of AI and modern automation across Finance operations - in partnership with internal technical resources - progressively removing low-level work from the team and freeing capacity for higher-value activity. Pace calibrated
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