Financial Controller

About MAVI

MAVI places experienced finance and accounting professionals into senior, high-ownership roles at high-growth US companies.

We maintain a deliberately high bar on both sides of the placement. The companies we partner with are venture-backed and private equity-backed businesses building modern finance organizations, and the professionals we represent are operators with a track record of owning the numbers rather than supporting them from a distance.

The roles we place are embedded positions within the finance function itself. Our professionals work alongside founders, CEOs, and senior leadership on the work that determines whether a business can close its books with confidence, satisfy its auditors, raise its next round, and scale.

Our team has built and scaled finance functions at companies including Lyft, Ramp, and SoftBank. We remain closely involved throughout the relationship, from role alignment and interview preparation through onboarding, placement, and long-term career development.

The Role

We are seeking an experienced Financial Controller to own accounting, financial control, and cash governance for a high-growth US company, working remotely from Brazil.

This role extends beyond the close. Alongside the integrity of the financial statements, you will own the controls over how money moves through the business: cash, treasury, spend approval, working capital, and the compliance obligations of each legal entity. Where the company has grown faster than its financial controls — payments approved informally, a cash view assembled by hand each week, entities whose statutory filings sit with whoever remembers them — you will put a proper control framework in place.

You will report to the CFO or CEO and work closely with FP&A, department heads, auditors, banks, and tax advisers. A significant part of the role is giving leadership an accurate, forward-looking view of the company's financial position, not only a record of what has already happened.

Because you will hold the financial control seat from outside the United States, the role calls for someone who operates with autonomy, communicates proactively, and is trusted to make the call on matters that affect cash and compliance.

What You'll Own

Financial Reporting and the Close

• The close and the financial statements. Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual close and the preparation of the P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow statement under US GAAP.
• Consolidation. Own multi-entity consolidation, intercompany accounting, eliminations, and foreign currency translation across the group.
• Technical accounting.

Conclude and document positions on revenue recognition, leases, equity, and other judgment-heavy areas.

• Management and board reporting. Deliver monthly management accounts and board-ready reporting packages with clear commentary on performance and risk.

Financial Control and Cash

• Control framework. Design and enforce the internal control framework, including delegation of authority, spend approval, segregation of duties, and payment controls.

• Cash and treasury. Own cash management, bank relationships, and the 13-week cash forecast, giving leadership a reliable view of liquidity and runway.

• Working capital. Oversee AP, AR, collections, and payment runs, holding each to defined standards and reducing cash leakage.

• Budget control. Partner with FP&A to track spend against budget and flag variances before they become overruns.

Tax, Compliance, and Audit

• Audit. Lead the annual audit or review end to end, including auditor management, PBC preparation, and resolution of findings.

• Tax. Coordinate US federal, state, and local tax compliance, sales tax, and 1099 reporting with external CPA firms; support transfer pricing across entities.

• Entity compliance. Maintain statutory and regulatory compliance for each legal entity, including international subsidiaries.

• Lender and investor requirements. Support debt covenant reporting, investor request