Finance Director (Strategic Finance Lead)

We are looking for a Finance Director to lead the financial operations of the company, while acting as a strategic partner to leadership.

This is not a traditional accounting role. You will act as a senior financial leader, owning financial visibility, planning, and decision support across the company, and serving as a key partner to leadership in shaping the business.

You’ll be responsible for ensuring financial accuracy and helping shape the financial direction of the business, balancing execution with strategy. Position is 100% remote in Ecuador and LATAM.

Requirements

Key responsibilities

Monthly close and reporting — the core of the role

• Own the monthly close across both entities, start to finish, on a published calendar

• Produce the Balance Sheet, P&L and Cash Flow Statement for each entity and for the group

• Maintain a documented reconciliation between Ecuadorian NIIF books, U.S. GAAP books, and the consolidated management view — so leadership and the authorities are looking at numbers that tie

• Shorten the close: we currently close by day 10 and want to get to day 5 or better

• Deliver a consistent monthly reporting package to the CEO, same format every month

Compliance and statutory obligations

• Keep both entities fully current with every filing and payment, with zero late submissions

• Ecuador: SRI declarations and anexos, IVA and income-tax retentions, ISD, annual income tax, transfer-pricing documentation for related-party transactions, Superintendencia de Compañías filings, and the annual external audit when required

• United States: coordinate with our external accounting firm and bookkeeper so federal and state obligations are met on time; you own the outcome even though they execute

• Maintain the supporting documentation that makes an SRI review or an audit uneventful

Payroll and employee obligations

• Own the monthly payroll run for the Ecuadorian entity, working alongside People Ops

• IESS aportes, décimos tercero and cuarto, fondos de reserva, vacaciones, utilidades, and final settlements (liquidaciones)

• Review and approve payroll and contractor payments before release: catch the errors before they reach an employee's account

• Oversee contractor and Employer-of-Record payments, and keep their classification defensible

Leading the team

• Lead the Ecuador accounting team: a Contadora General and accounting assistants

• Manage the relationship with the U.S. external accountants and bookkeeper as an extension of your team

• Coordinate with external auditors, tax advisors and legal counsel in both jurisdictions

• Set the standard: clear ownership, defined deadlines, no surprises

Treasury, receivables and cash

• Manage the cash position across entities and maintain a rolling cash-flow forecast

• Own accounts receivable and collections: keep DSO inside target and escalate early

• Manage payment runs, approvals and banking relationships

• Put idle cash to work — we currently leave balances sitting uninvested, and we want a simple, disciplined policy for laddering and liquidity

Controls, process and automation

• Design and maintain internal controls, approval thresholds, and the close checklist

• Improve reporting clarity and cycle time through automation and AI — the company runs AI-first internally, and we expect this role to apply it to finance workflows

• Identify where the two entities create friction (shared costs, cross-border payments, ISD exposure) and propose cleaner structures with our advisors

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or a related field

• 5+ years in accounting or finance, including at least 2 years personally owning a monthly close — not supervising someone who owns it

• Deep, current knowledge of Ecuadorian tax and labor regulation: SRI filings and anexos, retentions, IVA, ISD, transfer pricing under the LRTI, IESS, décimos, fondos de reserva and utilidades

• Working knowledge of U.S. GAAP, enough to coordinate with U.S. accountants and maintain a defensible reconciliation against NIIF

• Experience in a multi-entity or cross-border structure

• Experience leading an accounting team, including managing external accountants or auditors

• Hands-on payroll ownership for an organization of 50+ employees

• Advanced Excel

• Spanish and English. Spanish for local compliance and the Ecuador team; English, at B2 or above, for live conversation with the U.S. accounting team and with leadership — this role coordinates in English regularly, not occasionally

• Comfortable working remotely with a distributed team

Nice to have

None of these are required. They are what would make a strong candidate stronger, and they describe where the role can grow.

• Contador Público Autorizado (CPA) or equivalent certification

• Experience in software, technology or professional services — understanding utilization, billable rates and project margin

• ERP implementation or migration experience

• Process automation, or applying AI to finance and accounting workflows

• Financial planning and analysis: budgeting, forecasting, driver-based models

• Company or project valuation (DCF, comparables)

• Exposure to M&A, fundraising or cross-border structuring

• Experience supporting a founder or executive team directly

What we're looking for

Someone who

• Finishes things. Closes land on the date. Filings go in before the deadline. Nothing needs chasing.

• Owns the number, not the task. When something is wrong, you find it, fix it, and change the process so it doesn't recur.

• Builds systems rather than heroics — checklists, calendars, controls, reconciliations that anyone can follow

• Is detail-obsessed about compliance and payroll, where a small error has real consequences for a person or a filing

• Communicates clearly with non-finance people, including a CEO who wants the answer first and the detail second

• Is comfortable with autonomy and with a company that changes faster than its processes do

• Wants to grow into broader finance leadership over time, and is genuinely willing to own the operational foundation to get there

Benefits

Why This Role

The company has been profitable and growing for fifteen years without outside capital. The finance function has kept pace informally — and that has run out of room. You would be the first person whose whole job is making it solid.

You report directly to the CEO, you own both entities end to end, and you will have the authority to redesign how this works rather than inherit someone else's system. We're also an AI-first company internally, so you'll have tooling and support to automate work that most finance teams still do by hand.

As the company grows — and as corporate development moves onto the agenda — this role grows with it.