Role: Controller Working Hours: Full-time, overlap with Monday to Friday 9 am to 5 pm EST/CST. Salary: $3,500 - $6,000/month depending on experience Type of contract: Independent Contractor  | Remote Our firm is seeking a Controller to join our small team of financial professionals dedicated to the behavioral health industry. We partner with mental health and addiction treatment facilities to provide world-class financial infrastructure, ensuring their focus remains on patient care. This is a full-time opportunity to be part of something bigger than yourself, managing the full-cycle accounting across our portfolio of clients, making a direct impact on the financial health of organizations that change lives. We are looking for a finance professional who embodies the following core competencies and attributes: * Discipline & Self-Efficacy: Commitment to maintaining high standards of operational excellence, ensuring systematic thought, and a resourceful attitude. * Resilience & Grit: Able to handle urgent financial situations with level-headedness, lack of panic, and a focus on solutions. * Curiosity & Adaptability: Loves learning, improving, and continuously improving processes, with genuine excitement for leveraging AI and cutting-edge tools to increase portfolio scalability. * Teamability: Excellent English proficiency (written and verbal), necessary to supervise bookkeepers and clearly explain the story behind the numbers. * Integrity & Professionalism: Upholds ethical standards and prioritizes the financial well-being of the client portfolio. A typical day as the Controller includes: * Portfolio Oversight: Managing the full-cycle accounting for a portfolio of behavioral health clients. * Hard Close: Ensuring a "Hard Close" is consistently achieved by the 5th business day of each month. * Team Leadership: Supervising and mentoring a team of bookkeepers, performing high-level reviews of their work in QuickBooks Online (QBO). * Cash Flow Architecture: Maintaining and updating weekly 6-month rolling cash forecasts, navigating a high-complexity reimbursement environment. * Tech Stack Optimization: Utilizing and optimizing firm and client tech stack to skyrocket efficiency and remain lean. * Data Integrity: Ensuring all financial data is "dashboard-ready" for dashboard integration, specifically tracking clinical KPIs alongside financial metrics. * Operational Cadence: Being available to overlap with US Eastern/Central business hours, and maintaining high accountability using tools to manage strict deadlines and Loom for training and feedback. Qualifications & Experience * Expertise: Expert-level understanding of US accounting principles (US GAAP), including complex intercompany transactions. * Software Power User: Deep expertise in QuickBooks Online, including advanced app integrations (Ramp, Bill.com, Rippling). * Industry Context: Familiarity with the unique billing cycles of mental health or addiction treatment facilities is a significant advantage. * Automation: Proven history of leveraging AI tools and QBO automation to reduce manual entry and increase portfolio scalability. * Language: Excellent English proficiency (written and verbal).