Looking for Philippines-based candidates
Job Role: Finance Controller
Compensation range: $1800 - $2500 AUD / Monthly
Engagement type: Independent Contractor Agreement
Work Schedule: This role is expected to align with the AU business hours (approx. 9 AM - 5 PM, Monday to Friday) where the CEO is based — with some cross over to New York ET hours – the primary place of operations for the business. But as a contractor, you’ll have flexibility in how you manage your time.
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: A well-established international digital publishing company managing a portfolio of household name media brands, with revenue driven through advertising, digital video content, and publishing operations at scale.
Role Overview: We’re looking for an experienced Finance Controller to take ownership of the day-to-day financial operations across the Client’s portfolio. This is a senior, autonomous role suited to someone who can manage the books end-to-end, liaise with external accountants at tax time, and bring genuine rigour to financial reporting and revenue management.
In addition, this role will play a strategic finance function by delivering financial insights, forecasting, and commercial analysis to support leadership decision-making and business growth.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage the full accounts function across multiple publishing entities
- Provide weekly and monthly financial reporting packs to leadership
- Provide top level advice to leadership on business trends and cost of revenue
- Build, maintain, and improve forecasting models for business planning
- Conduct scenario analysis and financial modelling to support strategic decision-making
- Develop dashboards and intelligence reporting to provide visibility into business performance
- Feed actual financial results into forecasting models and reconcile forecast vs actual performance, identifying key variances
- Strategic cash planning, liquidity management
- Monitor and report on cash runway planning
- Support new business modelling and commercial analysis for growth opportunities
- Analyse margin performance by product, geography, and revenue stream
- Issue and reconcile a high volume of invoices
- Record and report revenue accurately across entities
- Prepare and maintain P&L statements and balance sheets
- Manage accounts payable and receivable
- Liaise with external accountants to prepare for tax season and audits
- Oversee and direct the existing bookkeeper where required
- Process and manage payroll using ADP
- Handle bill payments and vendor management via Melio
- Maintain financial records with accuracy and timeliness
Requirements
- Minimum 3–5 years’ experience in a controller, accountant, or senior bookkeeper role
- Proficiency in QuickBooks – essential
- Experience with ADP for payroll processing
- Experience with Melio or a comparable AP/bill payment platform (preferred, not essential)
- Strong understanding of multi-entity accounting and revenue recognition
- Strong financial modelling, forecasting, and scenario planning experience
- Experience preparing executive-level financial reports, dashboards, and business intelligence insights
- Strong commercial acumen with the ability to translate financial data into actionable business recommendations
- Experience analysing margins, profitability, and performance across multiple entities, products, or geographies
- Advanced Excel / Google Sheets financial modelling skills
- Ability to produce accurate financial reports with minimal supervision
- Excellent written and spoken English
- Comfortable working autonomously in a remote environment
- Proven experience managing high-volume invoicing environments, with the ability to accurately process and reconcile large transaction volumes across multiple entities/brands
- Comfortable working at scale in a fast-paced finance environment with high invoice throughput
Work Arrangement & Expectations:
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”)
