Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Vizhen Books Inc. is a global education, wellness, media, and technology company dedicated to helping individuals restore their natural ability to heal. They are seeking a finance leader to own the finance and accounting function while building systems and processes that support their rapid growth and enhance business decision-making.
Responsibilities
- Lead the company's finance and accounting function across multiple business lines
- Own month-end close, financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and cash flow management
- Build scalable financial systems, controls, and processes that support continued growth
- Develop executive dashboards, KPIs, and reporting that improve business decision making
- Partner with leadership on financial planning, scenario modeling, and strategic initiatives
- Oversee accounting operations, payroll, AP/AR, banking relationships, tax compliance, and external accounting partners
- Improve financial visibility across operations, customer success, sales, media, technology, and product teams
- Evaluate and implement finance technology that increases automation, efficiency, and reporting accuracy
- Support multiple revenue streams including memberships, education, certifications, live events, consumer products, partnerships, licensing, and media
- Build and develop the internal finance function as the company continues to grow
Skills
- CPA (US or Canadian) required
- 5+ years of progressive finance and accounting leadership, including Controller or similar senior finance experience
- Experience working in a high-growth, entrepreneurial business
- Proven ability to build systems, improve processes, and create financial structure
- Strong understanding of financial reporting, forecasting, cash management, internal controls, and multi-entity operations
- Comfortable partnering directly with founders and senior leadership
- Excellent communicator who translates financial information into business decisions
- Naturally proactive, highly organized, and accountable
- Experience with education, memberships, digital commerce, media, consumer products, or subscription-based businesses is an asset
- Startup or scale-up experience
- Multi-entity or international operations
- Experience building a finance function from the ground up
- Experience managing outsourced accounting teams
- Familiarity with modern finance technology and automation
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