Financial Controller (1405-0010)

Hunt St Pty Ltd; United States; Remote; USD 27,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

Hunt St is seeking an experienced senior accounting professional to manage end-to-end finance for a remote Australian client operating in the Philippines. This independent contractor role requires multi-currency accounting, strong NetSuite and data-cleaning skills, and leadership of a small finance team across time zones.

You will reconcile bank accounts in AUD/USD/EUR, manage AP/AR, and prepare monthly management packs with detailed variance analyses.

Qualifications

• CPA credential required (Philippine CPA with strong background in accounting).
• Minimum 8 years in accounting; at least 3 in product-based business with inventory and landed-cost experience.
• Experience with BAS/GST, payroll tax, and multi-currency accounting for Australian context.
• Has run monthly close end-to-end and produced owner/MD management packs.
• Experience with NetSuite and data cleansing projects is strongly preferred; MYOB is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Daily reconciliation of all bank and card accounts across AUD, USD, EUR and other currencies, with same-day exception handling.
• Enter supplier invoices; three-way match; code expenses; prepare payment schedules for CEO; maintain supplier data.
• Allocate customer receipts; issue statements; manage overdue lists and provide weekly exposure dashboards.
• Reconcile payroll data; reconcile superannuation and leave balances.
• Post goods receipts and landed-cost allocations; stock valuation; coordinate with Warehouse Coordinator on inventorycounts.
• Close books by working day 5; prepare monthly management pack with P&L by brand and channel, balance sheet, cash, inventory days, DSO/DPO.
• Build annual budget with managers; maintain rolling 12-month forecast; oversee cash forecasts and variance analysis.
• Provide commercial insight on gross margins by brand/channel and support pricing and supplier terms.
• Execute FX transactions; monthly revaluation of foreign currency balances.
• Maintain segregation of duties; audit trail in NetSuite; prepare BAS, FBT and year-end working papers for Australian accountants.

Education

Philippine CPA

Australian CPA or CA (advantage)

Tools

NetSuite

MYOB

Power BI

Job description

Looking for Philippines-based candidates

Compensation range: $3,500 AUD - $4,500 AUD / Monthly

Work Schedule: 8:30 AM– 5:00 PM Queensland Time (AEST, UTC+10) / 6:30 AM – 3:00 PM Manila, Monday to Friday, no daylight-saving shift

Who We Are: At Hunt St, we help Australian companies hire top remote talent in the Philippines. For this role, you will be engaged directly by the client as an independent contractor. We are not an outsourcing agency. All of our roles are 100% remote so you'll be able to work from home.

Who The Client Is: Our client is an established Australian distribution business working with a portfolio of international and local suppliers and a growing network of retail and commercial partners across the country.

The business is focused on building a reliable, well-managed supply operation that supports its customers and partners through consistent product availability, strong supplier relationships, and efficient internal processes. As the company continues to grow, it is investing in better systems, planning, and operational structure to support the next stage of the business.

Key Responsibilities:

Bank and cards: Daily reconciliation of all bank and card accounts across AUD, USD, EUR and other trading currencies using bank feeds and matching rules; clear exceptions the same day.

Accounts Payable: Enter supplier invoices; three-way match of purchase order, goods receipt and invoice on inventory purchases; code indirect expenses; prepare payment-run schedules for CEO approval; maintain supplier master data and terms; manage supplier prepayments and settlement timing.

Accounts Receivable and credit: Allocate customer receipts; issue statements; prepare overdue lists and reminder correspondence; set and apply customer credit limits and overdue thresholds within policy; provide a weekly exposure dashboard to the Customer Service Manager.

Expenses, cards and payroll: Reconcile corporate cards and expense claims; prepare payroll data for review; reconcile superannuation and leave balances.

Inventory and landed cost: Post goods receipts and landed-cost allocations (freight, duty, insurance); stock valuation; slow-moving and obsolete stock provisions; reconcile system inventory to physical counts with the Warehouse Coordinator.

Month-end close: Reconciliations and schedules by working day 3 (bank, AP, AR, prepayments, accruals, fixed assets, GST); close by working day 5; monthly management pack with P&L by brand and channel, balance sheet, cash, inventory days, DSO/DPO and a one-page narrative.

Budgets, forecasts and variance: Build the annual budget with each manager for CEO approval; maintain a rolling 12-month three-way model re-forecast quarterly; own the 13-week cash forecast; monthly budget-versus-actual by department and brand with root causes and corrective actions agreed with the responsible manager.

Commercial insight: Gross margin by brand, channel, customer and product at landed cost; fixed versus variable cost and breakeven by brand; support Sales and Brand Management on pricing, rebates and supplier terms with numbers.

Foreign exchange: Execute FX transactions and track open positions within the company’s FX Risk Management Policy; monthly revaluation of open foreign-currency balances.

Controls and compliance: Segregation of duties and delegation-of-authority matrix; audit trail in NetSuite; quarterly fraud and leakage review; prepare BAS, FBT, payroll tax, ASIC and year-end working papers for the Australian accountants and manage their annual review; fixed-asset register.

NetSuite and systems: Own the NetSuite finance module: cleanse MYOB data (debtors, creditors, open purchase orders, unreconciled items), load and verify opening balances, chart of accounts, roles and approvals, bank feeds, saved searches and reports; specify Power BI finance reporting; specify and supervise AI-assisted workflows for bank reconciliation, collections and report drafting; document every recurring process.

Procurement interface: Line-manage the Procurement & Supply Chain Manager; approve purchase orders outside the budget envelope; receive the procurement document pack and process payments (Procurement raises no payments).

People: Select, onboard and lead the Senior Bookkeeper when the trigger is reached; train managers to read and own their own numbers.

Requirements

Required Skills and Qualifications:

Philippine CPA (Australian CPA or CA an advantage).

Minimum 8 years in accounting, including at least 3 in a product-based business (wholesale, distribution, import, retail or manufacturing) with hands-on inventory, landed-cost and multi-currency accounting.

Has worked for an Australian or New Zealand business or client: understands BAS/GST coding, superannuation, payroll tax and the 1 July – 30 June financial year.

Has personally run a monthly close end to end and produced a management pack for an owner or managing director.

Has built or maintained a budget and a rolling three-way model (P&L, balance sheet, cash flow) and run monthly variance reviews with operating managers.

Hands-on NetSuite experience in the finance module (AP, AR, bank reconciliation, period close). Experience on a NetSuite migration or data-cleansing project is strongly preferred; MYOB experience is an advantage.

Decides exceptions rather than escalating them, and can show it with examples.

Builds systems: documents processes without being asked; has used automation or AI tools in finance work.

Strong written and spoken English; comfortable presenting numbers to a CEO and a management team and disagreeing in writing when the numbers call for it.

Nice to Have:

Led the finance side of a NetSuite go-live, including opening-balance reconciliation.

NetSuite OneWorld, multi-subsidiary or consolidation exposure.

Power BI or NetSuite SuiteAnalytics.

Has supervised a bookkeeper or small finance team across time zones.

Experience with Australian customs, Deferred GST and import documentation.

This is a remote role that will be set up as an independent contractor engagement.

To ensure alignment and transparency, successful candidates will be expected to:

Disclose any existing ongoing roles or client work

Reflect this engagement on their LinkedIn profile (clearly marked as “Independent Contractor”)

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Meet the team

Hunt St

Hunt St is a recruitment platform that helps Australian companies hire top remote talent in the Philippines. The company specializes in connecting businesses with skilled independent contractors for remote roles, operating as a talent marketplace rather than a traditional outsourcing agency. Hunt St focuses on matching companies with qualified professionals across various sectors, including ecommerce, media, and engineering, enabling 100% remote work arrangements.