Controller
About Gembah
Gembah is a rapidly growing venture funded company on a mission to democratize product innovation, and enable a whole new breed of creators and entrepreneurs to turn their ideas into reality. We are democratizing and demystifying the product creation process by helping entrepreneurs, e-commerce sellers and small-to-midsize businesses research, design, and manufacture new consumer products.
Gembah’s platform and marketplace connects creators with a global network of designers, engineers, and supply chain specialists and oversees production at factories in China, Southeast Asia, Mexico, and South America. Leveraging best practices workflows managed through our platform, we help orchestrate the collaboration between all these resources to help our customers create new products better, faster, and cheaper than ever before.
Founded on the belief that humans are natural creators, the company’s goal is to empower creators anywhere and make product development accessible to anyone.
We know that the only way to realize our vision is to build one of the best places to work and attract and retain the most talented professionals in the industry. We’re already off to a good start with a team of 50+ here in the US and smaller teams in several other countries, and an exciting evolving global culture. We’re ambitious and hardworking, but we also embrace the fun and value a healthy work life balance. We are looking for a top notch controller to help us bring the finance and accounting function inhouse and to seamlessly integrate it with our marketplace and business operations.
Job Description
We are looking for a self-starter that will naturally and quickly build relationships with each department, assess current accounting processes, and identify and implement improvements. We are growing rapidly and our network of global contractors and factories is growing equally fast. Seamless management of payments across a large number of projects with multiple global service providers for each project is absolutely essential to scale our business. Evolving our current financial KPIs and building dashboards to provide improved visibility and insights that help us continuously optimize our business is equally important.
This role will direct the organization's accounting functions across all geographies that we operate in. These functions include reviewing and improving the organization's accounting principles, practices, procedures and internal controls. It also includes overseeing the preparation of GAAP accrual basis financials, inter-company transactions and payments, and preparation for tax returns and quarterly tax payments. The controller will also work closely with the rest of the senior management team to evolve and update the company’s budget and financial projections.
This position will report directly to the CEO of the company.
Responsibilities
Serve as the most senior financial manager in the company directly responsible for the financial and administrative functions
Work as a strategic business partner to executive, international, manufacturing, development and operational teams.
Enhance existing processes and systems to measure and improve financial and operational performance
Drive key impact areas such as financial analysis, job costing, pricing and profitability models, cash management, budgeting and forecasting
Oversee month-end closing activities to ensure completeness and timeliness of financial and information reporting
Preparation of financial reporting and analysis for board meetings and to participate in board meetings as required
Engage with key stakeholders such as members, governmental agencies, employees, customers, and vendors.
Lead continual process improvement efforts
Special projects as assigned
Qualifications
Over 7 years of relevant experience with hands-on accounting knowledge
Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance or MBA
Outstanding leadership, communication, team building, analytical, problem solving, organizational and team-building skills
Highly motivated professional with a dynamic personality and excellent presentation skills
High integrity, reliable and punctual
We embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion in everything we do – from recruiting, to operations to fostering safe and respectful workplaces that encourage collaboration. Our culture is based on principles of respect, inclusion, and fair treatment and we welcome anyone into our family without regard to race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, or age.
Compensation
Annual Salary + Bonus