Senior Associate, Strategic Finance & Controllership

Mappa; Colombia; Hybrid; COP 60,000,000 - 80,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Mappa is seeking an FP&A professional to work across multiple client engagements, owning models, budgets, and reporting that inform strategic decisions with founders and executives.

You’ll deliver dashboards, board materials, and diligence data for fundraising, while optimizing close processes and ensuring GAAP compliance. This role blends analysis with strategic finance across busy engagements.

Qualifications

• 3 to 6 years in FP&A, corporate finance, accounting advisory, investment banking or a startup finance team.
• Strong three-statement modeling skills: build a driver-based model from scratch and explain every assumption.
• Solid GAAP knowledge, including accruals, revenue recognition and the month-end close.
• Advanced Excel or Google Sheets skills.
• Clear writing and speaking: explain variance or a forecast to a founder who isn’t a finance person.
• The organization to handle several clients and deadlines at once without dropping details.
• A bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain client financial models, forecasts, and scenario analyses as the source of truth.
• Prepare budgets, rolling forecasts, and monthly variance analysis with clear commentary.
• Produce KPI dashboards and board materials that translate operating data into actionable insight.
• Run or review month-end close, GAAP financial statements, and core controllership workflows.
• Support fundraising work with models, investor materials, and diligence support.
• Improve client finance processes by standardizing workflows, reducing manual steps, and tracking close and error metrics.

Skills

Three-statement modeling

GAAP knowledge

Advanced Excel/Sheets

Clear writing & communication

Multi-client management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics or related field

Tools

Excel

Google Sheets

Claude

QuickBooks Online

Bill.com

Gusto

ADP

Job description

About the company

We champion diversity in entrepreneurship by connecting businesses to affordable, community-focused lenders. Our tech-driven solutions prioritize your needs, offering low interest rates and saving you valuable time. Join us to make a real impact!

About us

We run the finance function for fast-growing companies. Under one flat monthly fee, we cover strategic finance, controllership, accounting and tax for our clients. Our workflows are automated, and a person reviews every number before it goes out. Demand for our full controllership engagements is growing quickly, and we’re expanding the team that delivers them.

About the role

This is a role for someone who wants a seat at the table, not just a spreadsheet. Clients bring us in to fill roles like Director of Strategic Finance or Controller. You’ll be the right hand to our Finance Lead and own the models, close and reporting that clients rely on. You’ll work directly with founders, CEOs and COOs on decisions that shape their companies: budgets, fundraising, pricing and cash.

You’ll support several client engagements at once, each at a different stage. One week you might be onboarding a new client’s books, and the next you might be preparing materials for a Series B raise. You’ll report to the Finance Lead and work closely with our accounting and tax teams.

What you’ll do

Financial modeling and planning

Build and maintain each client’s financial model (assumptions, drivers, forecasts and scenarios) as the single source of truth.

Prepare budgets and rolling forecasts tied to the client’s business drivers.

Run scenario analysis for growth, pricing and capital allocation decisions.

Deliver monthly variance analysis with clear, forward-looking commentary.

Reporting and insight

Set up KPI frameworks tied to each client’s OKRs and keep their dashboards current.

Turn operating data into financial insight on margins, cost-to-serve and cash flow.

Draft monthly and quarterly board materials, which the Finance Lead refines with client leadership.

Support fundraising with models, investor materials and diligence data rooms.

Controllership and close

Run or review month-end and year-end close and produce GAAP financial statements.

Design revenue recognition around each client’s process and contracts.

Track cash, working capital and weekly AR/AP aging.

Prepare schedules and answer questions for external auditors, and coordinate with our tax team.

Systems and process optimization

Onboard new clients: review their books, systems and processes, and map where time and errors go.

Redesign close, billing, AR/AP and expense workflows so they run faster with fewer manual steps.

Automate recurring work with integrations and AI tools like Claude, while keeping human review of exceptions.

Set up internal controls and financial policies that scale as each client grows.

Review bookkeeping and reconciliation work and resolve issues flagged by our review tools.

Track the results: days to close, error rates and hours saved.

Turn what works on one engagement into templates and playbooks for the next.

What you’ll bring

3 to 6 years in FP&A, corporate finance, accounting advisory, investment banking or a startup finance team.

Strong three-statement modeling skills: you can build a driver-based model from scratch and explain every assumption.

Solid GAAP knowledge, including accruals, revenue recognition and the month-end close.

Advanced Excel or Google Sheets skills.

Clear writing and speaking: you can explain a variance or a forecast to a founder who isn’t a finance person.

The organization to handle several clients and deadlines at once without dropping details.

A bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics or a related field.

Nice to have

CPA, CFA or progress toward either.

Experience at a client-facing firm (Big 4, outsourced CFO or accounting firm, consulting).

Fundraising experience: Series A or B models, investor decks or diligence.

Experience setting up finance systems or automating workflows.

Familiarity with service businesses with field teams, hourly payroll or project-based revenue.

Spanish or another second language.

Tools you’ll use

Tools are central to how we work. We expect you to use them well and push them further. Day to day you’ll work in Excel, Google Sheets and Claude, plus each client’s stack: QuickBooks Online, Bill.com and payroll platforms such as Gusto or ADP. You’ll pick up new systems quickly and look for ways to connect and automate them.

Why join us

Real impact, early. You’ll work directly with founders and executives on fundraising, pricing and cash decisions, the kind of exposure that usually takes years to earn.

Breadth that accelerates your growth. Several companies, industries and stages at once will build your judgment faster than one in-house role could.

A team that grows its people. We have a structured career path, and team members have been promoted from within. Our team describes the culture as collaborative and responsive, with real care for everyone’s well-being.

Modern finance, not manual finance. You’ll help shape how AI and automation change the finance function, and you’ll have room to build the playbooks others use.

What we need you to tackle

You are likely a strong fit if you have 3 to 6 years in FP&A, corporate finance, accounting advisory, investment banking, or a startup finance team, and you can move comfortably between modeling, reporting, and controllership. You should be fluent in driver-based three-statement modeling, GAAP fundamentals, and advanced spreadsheet work, with the judgment to explain numbers clearly to founders and executives. This role will suit someone who is organized, responsive, and energized by owning multiple client engagements at once while improving the systems and playbooks behind the work.

Non-negotiable hard skills

• Financial Analysis
• Financial Modeling
• FP&A (Financial Planning & Analysis)
• Financial Statement Preparation
• Budgeting & Financial Forecasting

Your day-to-day

• Build and maintain client financial models, forecasts, and scenario analyses as the source of truth.
• Prepare budgets, rolling forecasts, and monthly variance analysis with clear commentary.
• Produce KPI dashboards and board materials that translate operating data into actionable insight.
• Run or review month-end close, GAAP financial statements, and core controllership workflows.
• Support fundraising work with models, investor materials, and diligence support.
• Improve client finance processes by standardizing workflows, reducing manual steps, and tracking close and error metrics.

Nice to haves

• Build investor-ready models and materials, prepare data rooms, and support diligence. Enables clients to raise capital with credible narratives and numbers for Series A/B processes.
• Plan and sequence work across several clients and deadlines, focusing on highest-impact deliverables (close, board materials, cash decisions). Keeps engagements on track without sacrificing quality.
• Identify root causes of variances, reconciliation breaks, and data quality issues; implement fixes and prevent recurrence through process or control changes. Ensures reliability of the ‘single source of truth.’