Financial Controller
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Senior
Remote in Germany
Remote
AccountingFinancial Accounting
About the job
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in accounting, Big Four audit, financial controlling, or a similar Finance role, ideally in an international environment.
- Strong technical accounting knowledge and understanding of profit and loss, balance sheet, and cash flow accounting.
- Hands-on experience owning or coordinating monthly and annual financial closings.
- Experience with multiple legal entities and intercompany accounting.
- Strong understanding of financial controls, including Sarbanes-Oxley environments, and audit requirements.
- Experience working with enterprise resource planning systems and investigating transactions directly within the system.
- Strong Excel or Google Sheets skills and confidence working with large financial datasets.
- Excellent written and spoken English.
- A hands-on, ownership-driven approach and the ability to investigate issues and identify root causes.
- Interest in using artificial intelligence, automation, and new technologies to improve Finance processes and reduce manual work.
Responsibilities
- Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual closing process across the Group.
- Coordinate accounting across multiple legal entities and jurisdictions, ensuring consistent practices and timely reporting.
- Supervise the day-to-day accounting activities of a two-person team, covering revenue, cost of goods sold, inventory, payroll, accruals, prepayments, fixed assets, and general ledger accounting.
- Review journal entries, account reconciliations, supporting documentation, and balance sheet accounts, ensuring outstanding items are investigated and resolved.
- Maintain the closing calendar, responsibilities, and controls, including appropriate cut-off and accounting treatment across entities.
- Continuously improve the speed, quality, and reliability of the close.
- Act as a key Finance contact for annual audits and reviews and provide required financial information and documentation.
- Partner closely with the financial planning and analysis team to ensure timely, accurate, and consistent financial reporting and a clear understanding of financial performance.
- Own monthly Group consolidation across multiple entities and currencies.
- Manage intercompany entries, reconciliations, and eliminations.
- Review foreign currency translation and other consolidation adjustments.
- Maintain the Group consolidation structure and consistency between local accounting and Group reporting.
- Coordinate value-added tax compliance across the countries in which the Group operates and sells its products, including supervision of VAT returns and reconciliations.
- Ensure correct VAT treatment of direct-to-consumer, business-to-business, ecommerce, and subscription transactions.
- Coordinate other indirect tax obligations, including goods and services tax and sales tax where applicable.
- Support corporate income tax filings, tax provisions, and other local tax requirements with external advisors.
- Maintain the compliance calendar and ensure financial and tax obligations are completed accurately and on time.
- Support transfer pricing, intercompany recharges, and related documentation where required.
- Own accounting and financial reporting processes within NetSuite and investigate system and accounting issues through to resolution.
- Improve automation across reconciliations, consolidation, reporting, and recurring accounting activities.
- Ensure accurate financial data flows from ecommerce, logistics, payroll, banking, and other operational systems into Finance.
- Identify process weaknesses and implement practical solutions.
- Document key Finance processes and accounting policies and ensure appropriate documentation and audit trails.
- Make artificial intelligence and automation a core part of Finance operations, reducing manual work and enabling the team to focus on exceptions, judgement, and higher-value activities.
- Identify and automate recurring accounting, closing, reconciliation, and compliance activities.
- Design artificial-intelligence-enabled workflows for areas such as balance sheet reconciliations, intercompany matching, VAT reviews, transaction classification, closing controls, and anomaly detection.
- Develop an exception-based approach where systems identify transactions and balances requiring human review.
- Use artificial intelligence to investigate financial data, identify unusual transactions, and accelerate root-cause analysis while maintaining human oversight.
- Build reusable Finance workflows, agents, and controls rather than relying on one-off analyses.
- Ensure appropriate controls, documentation, data protection, and human validation for artificial-intelligence-enabled processes.
- Measure impact through improvements such as shorter closing timelines, fewer manual reconciliations, reduced errors, and increased Finance capacity.
Desired Qualifications
- CPA, ACCA, ACA, Swiss Certified Expert in Accounting and Controlling, or an equivalent qualification.
- Experience with NetSuite and Aleph.
- Experience with multi-entity and multi-currency consolidation.
- Experience in an international scale-up or fast-growing company.
- Experience with VAT compliance across several European jurisdictions.
- Experience with US sales tax, Australian goods and services tax, or other international indirect tax regimes.
- Experience with inventory accounting and product cost of goods sold.
- Experience with artificial intelligence, workflow automation, data analytics, or other Finance automation tools.
About the company
Hilo By Aktiia creates medical wearables that measure blood pressure continuously without a cuff. Its Hilo Band is a wrist-worn device that provides automated 24/7 blood pressure monitoring and has both CE marking as a Class IIa medical device and FDA 510(k) clearance for over‑the‑counter use. The product works by gathering data from onboard sensors and applying algorithms to estimate blood pressure over time, allowing users to track BP at home without manual cuff inflations. Compared with others in the space, Hilo emphasizes cuffless, continuous monitoring designed for everyday wear and has obtained regulatory clearances that support broad consumer access. The company’s goal is to expand globally and broaden product development, moving from Aktiia to Hilo to reflect its international ambitions and scale its reach in digital health and consumer medical devices.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series B
Total Funding
$117.9M
Headquarters
Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Founded
2018
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Dell Family Office joined Hilo's $19 million August 2026 extension for US expansion.
- The company reported over 200,000 global users and 76% revenue growth by May 2025.
- Amazon and Hilo.com distribution gives Hilo immediate consumer reach in July 2026.
What critics are saying
- FDA clearance covers G0, not every Hilo model; misbranding invites enforcement in 2026.
- WHOOP, Samsung, and Huawei compress pricing and distribution, squeezing Hilo's premium subscription.
- Without reimbursement, consumer churn can stall US growth before Hilo reaches scale.
What makes Hilo By Aktiia unique
- Hilo's July 2025 FDA-cleared G0 is the first OTC cuffless blood pressure monitor.
- Its 20-year research base and 30,000-user study create unusually deep longitudinal data.
- Hilo Core launched July 21, 2026 with a connected cuff, app, and wearable band.
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