Global Financial Controller

**Company Description** Who we are**:
Founded in 2013, Ignition is the **leading revenue generation platform for accounting and professional services businesses** to spark greater efficiency and profitability.
Ignition automates and optimizes proposals, billing, payments and workflows in a single platform that fits seamlessly into existing technology stacks.

With a vision to transform how professional services and their clients do business together, Ignition empowers 7,250+ businesses to reach their full revenue potential.

To date, Ignition customers have engaged over 1.7 million clients and generated US $8b in revenue via the platform.

Ignition’s global workforce spans Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the Philippines, US and the UK.

**Company Values**:

- We are better everyday
- We work without ego
- We are smarter together
- We hero our customer

**Role location**:
**Job Description** About the role**:
**As Global Finance Controller, you will be responsible for**:

- Overseeing the company’s global financial operations, ensuring compliance with US GAAP, IFRS, and regulatory requirements.
- Managing and developing a high-performing finance team across multiple geographies.
- Optimizing financial processes, systems, and controls to drive efficiency, scalability, and automation.
- Leading global billing, revenue operations, and treasury management, ensuring seamless cash flow and financial stability.
- Owning the company’s M&A integration strategy, including due diligence and post-acquisition financial management.
- Serving as a trusted strategic partner to the CFO and executive leadership, providing insights to drive growth and profitability.

**What your day to day will look like**:
**Executive Leadership & Team Development**:

- Build, manage, and mentor a world-class finance team, ensuring strong execution and professional development.
- Drive a high-performance culture, providing clear goals, accountability, and coaching for career growth.
- Partner with the CFO to develop and execute the company’s financial vision and operational strategy.
- Act as a key business partner to cross-functional teams, including Commercial Finance, P&C, RevOps, Sales, Product, and Marketing.

**Financial Reporting & Compliance**:

- Own and drive the monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close process, ensuring completion within 5 business days.
- Ensure timely, accurate, and compliant financial reporting under US GAAP and IFRS across multiple entities.
- Implement robust internal controls, ensuring SOX compliance (where applicable) and audit readiness.
- Lead the financial risk management strategy, ensuring compliance with tax, regulatory, and legal obligations.
- Prepare board reports, and executive-level financial insights.

**Billing, Revenue Recognition & Operations**:

- Oversee global billing operations, ensuring seamless invoicing, collections, and revenue reconciliation.
- Act as the finance lead for pricing and packaging changes in Recurly, ensuring accuracy in financial reporting.
- Implement best practices in subscription revenue recognition (ASC 606 / IFRS 15) for SaaS and payments models.
- Drive automation and efficiency in revenue operations, improving scalability.

**Strategic Finance & Business Performance**:

- Lead cash burn and liquidity management, ensuring sustainable growth and financial resilience.
- Drive budget vs. actuals variance analysis, ensuring disciplined financial management.
- Work closely with FP&A and Commercial Finance to optimize EBITDA and improve profitability.
- Act as a key driver of finance transformation, leveraging technology and automation to scale operations.

**Banking, Treasury & Capital Strategy**:

- Own and manage global banking relationships, ensuring optimized cash flow and funding strategy.
- Oversee treasury functions, including foreign exchange (FX) risk management and cash positioning.
- Partner with CFO on capital allocation, fundraising, and investor relations.

**M&A, Equity & Growth Strategy**:

- Participate in M&A financial due diligence, ensuring seamless integration of acquired companies.
- Manage purchase accounting (ASC 805), goodwill, and intangible asset valuation for M&A transactions.
- Oversee cap table management and equity administration, ensuring compliance and transparency.

**Finance Transformation & Process Optimization**:

- Identify and implement process improvements to drive operational excellence in finance.
- Implement finance automation tools, and ERP (Xero) optimizations.
- Establish scalable financial processes to support global expansion and high-growth operations.
- 15+ years of progressive finance leadership, including 7+ years in a Senior Director or Controller level.
- Experience in high-growth, fast-paced SaaS, FinTech, or Payments industries.
- Proven ability to build, develop, and scale high-performing global finance teams.
- Deep expertise in US GAAP, IFRS, and ASC 606 revenue recognition for SaaS businesses.
- Strong han