Fractional Controller

Fractional Controller (Senior) – North Vancouver / Remote

Location: 1000 West 14th Street, North Vancouver, BC V7P 3P3

Work Arrangement: Hybrid role (remote with some in-person work in North Vancouver required)

Compensation: $70–$100 per hour, Part-time (5-10 hours/week)

Overview

We are seeking a senior Fractional Controller to help organize and redesign our accounting and reporting structure on a part-time basis. The initial mandate is to assist on our chart of accounts and establish audit-ready financial reporting that properly reflects manufacturing, inventory, and R&D activities.

This person will work closely with the Founder/CEO and an existing bookkeeper, who will perform much of the transactional and detailed implementation work under your guidance. The ideal candidate is highly experienced, hands-on, efficient, and able to ask the right questions quickly in order to identify issues, define the right structure, and drive the company toward audit-quality reporting.

What You'll Do

• Review current accounting setup in QuickBooks and assess how our ERP system could better support accounting and reporting needs.
• Redesign and implement an audit-ready chart of accounts aligned with our manufacturing, inventory, and R&D business model.
• Recast, reclassify, and reallocate historical financial information from prior years so reporting is consistent, accurate, and suitable for audit preparation.
• Establish practical accounting treatment and reporting structure for:
  • Inventory and manufactured product costs.
  • Cost allocations across operations, manufacturing, and R&D.
  • Capitalization of eligible R&D costs into future product value, where appropriate.
• Develop audit-ready reporting processes, schedules, and documentation to support an external audit.
• Work in close coordination with the company's bookkeeper by setting direction, assigning detailed work, reviewing outputs, and ensuring accuracy and consistency.
• Identify reporting gaps, process weaknesses, and control issues, then recommend pragmatic improvements suitable for a growing startup environment.
• Help management create clearer internal financial reporting to support decision-making, planning, and future financing activity.
• Build integrated 3-statement Excel models, including profit and loss, balance sheet, and cash flow, using detailed by-customer and by-project forecasts together with generalized assumptions for AR aging, tax, and invoice timing.
• Create polished pro forma financial statements and scenario models suitable for investors, lenders, and board materials, with clear input tabs, structured calculation sheets, and concise summary outputs.
• Clarify and document assumptions, maintain version control, and incorporate basic checks and error flags so models are reliable, transparent, and easy to update.

Qualifications

• CPA designation strongly preferred.
• 10+ years of progressive accounting and finance experience, including significant experience as a Controller or senior finance leader.
• Proven experience preparing a small or mid-sized company for external audit, ideally in a first-time or early-stage audit environment.
• Strong technical expertise in:
  • Manufacturing accounting and inventory costing.
  • R&D accounting and capitalization considerations.
  • Financial statement restructuring and historical recasting.
  • Chart of accounts design and reporting architecture.
• Strong Excel modeling skills, including integrated 3-statement forecasting and pro forma financial presentation.
• Experience with QuickBooks and comfort working with ERP systems, including assessing whether existing systems should be better utilized or reconfigured.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to quickly assess needs, ask the right questions, and translate accounting requirements into clear action plans.

Ideal Candidate

• Senior, practical, and highly efficient.
• Comfortable stepping into a founder-led company and bringing order to an accounting structure that has good underlying data but needs redesign and process.
• Able to combine strategic judgment with enough hands-on capability to direct implementation and review detailed work product.
• Comfortable supporting both audit readiness and forward-looking financial modeling for management, investors, and the board.

Location Requirements

• Must be based in British Columbia, with strong preference for candidates in Metro Vancouver.