Financial Controller

Location: Remote — U.S. Southeast Only (GA, FL, AL, TN, NC, SC) - Monthly travel for in person meetings

(Corporate office located in Blue Ridge, GA)

Full-Time | Reports to CEO

Use your financial expertise to help save and sustain lives worldwide. This is a rare opportunity to serve as

the senior finance leader in a mission-driven nonprofit where your work directly fuels global impact.

Organization Overview

RYSR is a mission-driven organization operating domestically and internationally in crisis response and community restoration. With an annual operating budget of approximately $7 million, RYSR manages multi-source donor funding, international program disbursements, and multi-currency transactions in support of life-saving and sustaining work worldwide.

As a growth-stage nonprofit, we are building the financial infrastructure, controls, and reporting frameworks necessary to responsibly scale our global impact.

Position Summary

We are seeking a Financial Controller to serve as the organization’s senior finance professional.

This is a hands-on, strategic role for someone who enjoys owning the full financial function while advising leadership on financial health, stewardship, and sustainability.

As a working Controller position — currently with no direct reports — this role is ideal for a finance leader who thrives in a mission-driven, high-trust environment and is comfortable balancing execution with strategic insight.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Leadership & Planning

• • Support annual budgets and multi-year financial planning
  • Provide forecasting and cash flow analysis
  • Advise CEO and Board on financial insights

Accounting & Operations

• • Manage GL, AP/AR, reconciliations, and journal entries
  • Perform month-end and year-end close
  • Ensure GAAP and nonprofit compliance
  • Coordinate payroll postings

Grant & Fund Accounting

• • Track donor restrictions and grant budgets
  • Monitor reporting deadlines and compliance
  • Maintain international transaction documentation

Audit & Compliance

• • Serve as primary audit liaison
  • Prepare audit schedules and documentation
  • Support IRS and state compliance
  • Maintain internal controls and anti-fraud safeguards

Reporting

• • Prepare monthly and quarterly financial statements
  • Deliver board-ready reports

Systems & Process Improvement

• • Analyze, adjust and improve finance workflows
  • Redesign and support accounting system optimization

Qualifications

Required

• • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
  • 7–10+ years progressive accounting/finance experience
  • Strong GAAP knowledge
  • Experience with financial reporting and reconciliations
  • Highly organized and self-directed

Preferred

• • Nonprofit accounting experience
  • Grant and donor-restricted fund experience
  • CPA or CMA
  • Experience with international or multi-currency transactions

Comprehensive benefits including health coverage, retirement contributions, paid leave.

English - verbal and written proficiency.