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Our team is responsible for innovating new process control and sensor products and technologies critically important in the production of semiconductors components and to the critical infrastructure markets. Companies like Intel, Samsung, and TSMC rely on technology like ours in order to support the ever-advancing needs of products in the IoT world including the Apple iPhone, the cars we drive, and the lightning fast computers we use. Our team fulfills the needs of customers with complex challenges that require agile teams by talented individuals obsessed with our collective purpose. We are a small, nimble, and cutting-edge development stage company. Come join our team... have the opportunity to work with talented professionals and a collaborative and fun work environment. Who are we looking for? We are seeking a senior Fractional Controller to help organize, redesign our accounting and reporting structure on a part-time basis. The initial mandate is to assist on our chart of accounts, and establish audit-ready financial reporting that properly reflects manufacturing, inventory, and R&D activities. Time commitment 5-10 hours/week. This person will work closely with the Founder/CEO and an existing bookkeeper, who will perform much of the transactional and detailed implementation work under your guidance. The ideal candidate is highly experienced, handson, efficient, and able to ask the right questions quickly in order to identify issues, define the right structure, and drive the company toward auditquality reporting. What Youll Do Review our current accounting setup in QuickBooks and assess how our ERP system could better support accounting and reporting needs. Redesign and implement an auditready chart of accounts aligned with our manufacturing, inventory, and R&D business model. Recast, reclassify, and reallocate historical financial information from prior years so reporting is consistent, accurate, and suitable for audit preparation. Establish practical accounting treatment and reporting structure for: Inventory and manufactured product costs. Cost allocations across operations, manufacturing, and R&D. Capitalization of eligible R&D costs into future product value, where appropriate. Develop auditready reporting processes, schedules, and documentation to support an external audit. Work in close coordination with the companys bookkeeper by setting direction, assigning detailed work, reviewing outputs, and ensuring accuracy and consistency. Identify reporting gaps, process weaknesses, and control issues, then recommend pragmatic improvements suitable for a growing startup environment. Help management create clearer internal financial reporting to support decisionmaking, planning, and future financing activity. Build integrated 3statement Excel models, including profit and loss, balance sheet, and cash flow, using detailed bycustomer and byproject forecasts together with generalized assumptions for AR aging, tax, and invoice timing. Create polished pro forma financial statements and scenario models suitable for investors, lenders, and board materials, with clear input tabs, structured calculation sheets, and concise summary outputs. Clarify and document assumptions, maintain version control, and incorporate basic checks and error flags so models are reliable, transparent, and easy to update. Qualifications CPA designation strongly preferred. 10+ years of progressive accounting and finance experience, including significant experience as a Controller or senior finance leader. Proven experience preparing a small or midsized company for external audit, ideally in a firsttime or earlystage audit environment. Strong technical expertise in: Manufacturing accounting and inventory costing. R&D accounting and capitalization considerations. Financial statement restructuring and historical recasting. Chart of accounts design and reporting architecture. Strong Excel modeling skills, including integrated 3statement forecasting and pro forma financial presentation. Experience with QuickBooks and comfort working with ERP systems, including assessing whether existing systems should be better utilized or reconfigured. Strong communication skills with the ability to quickly assess needs, ask the right questions, and translate accounting requirements into clear action plans. Work Arrangement Must be based in British Columbia, with strong preference for candidates in Metro Vancouver. Hybrid role: much of the work can be performed remotely, but some inperson work in North Vancouver will be required. Parttime fractional engagement, with scope and hours to be defined based on experience and availability. Ideal Candidate Senior, practical, and highly efficient. Comfortable stepping into a founderled company and bringing order to an accounting structure that has good underlying data but needs redesign and process. Able to combine strategic judgment with enough handson capability to direct implementation and review detailed work product. Comfortable supporting both audit readiness and forwardlooking financial modeling for management, investors, and the board. #J-18808-Ljbffr