Fractional Controller / Accounting Lead

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This role emphasizes ensuring financial accuracy and integrity through hands-on accounting during a critical operational phase, requiring senior-level expertise in U.S. GAAP.

Engagement Type: Independent Contractor (Part-Time)

Location: Remote

Time Commitment: 10–20 hours per week (heavier around month-end close)

Compensation: Paid in USD, $40-$70/hr DOE and Location.

We are seeking a senior-level accounting consultant to provide stability, precision, and judgment during a critical operating phase of our business.

This engagement is focused on protecting the integrity of our financials while the company operates through contractual, structural, and revenue-model complexity. The role exists to ensure that core accounting remains accurate, reliable, and trusted — even as the business evolves around it.

This is not a build-from-scratch role, a junior execution role, or a speculative advisory engagement. It is a hands-on, high-accountability consulting assignment where correctness and discipline matter more than speed or scale.

What You Will Be Responsible For

Monthly Close & Core Accounting

  • Own and oversee a clean, dependable monthly close
  • Ensure general ledger accuracy, reconciliations, and supporting documentation
  • Maintain consistency across reporting periods during operational change

Revenue Recognition & Technical Accounting

  • Apply U.S. GAAP revenue recognition (including ASC 606) across blended service and milestone-based arrangements
  • Evaluate timing, allocation, and dependency issues with sound professional judgment
  • Identify and surface accounting questions early — before issues compound

Cash, AP & Financial Controls

  • Oversee accounts payable, cash movement, and payment integrity
  • Maintain control discipline appropriate for multi-party financial flows
  • Ensure audit-ready records without unnecessary process overhead

Stakeholder Confidence

  • Support continuity and trust with existing U.S.-based stakeholders
  • Produce clear, defensible financial reporting for leadership decision-making
  • Communicate calmly and precisely in high-accountability situations

Process Stability

  • Reinforce accounting processes that work
  • Improve hygiene only where risk justifies change
  • Avoid destabilizing core operations during sensitive periods

What This Engagement Is Not

  • Not a full FP&A or long-range modeling role
  • Not a strategic finance or fundraising advisory seat
  • Not an environment for learning U.S. GAAP fundamentals

This engagement is intentionally scoped to stability and correctness. Expansion of scope may occur later, but is not the objective of this phase.

Requirements

Required Experience

  • Ideal Profile
    • 10+ years in senior accounting, controller, or equivalent roles
    • Deep, hands-on experience with U.S. GAAP, including ASC 606
    • Proven success in services-based, milestone, or hybrid revenue models
    • Comfortable operating in environments where errors surface late and carry real consequences
    • Precise, calm, and judgment-driven
  • Strongly Preferred
    • CPA or equivalent
    • Experience supporting U.S.-based clients or stakeholders
    • Prior exposure to complex fund flows or regulated financial environments
    • Experience working remotely as an independent consultant

Working Model

  • Independent contractor relationship (no employment or benefits)
  • Paid in USD against submitted invoices
  • Flexible hours within agreed availability and close deadlines
  • Direct access to executive leadership for decision-making clarity

Who Will Thrive in This Engagement

  • Senior professionals who value clarity, boundaries, and accountability
  • Consultants trusted for judgment, not volume
  • People who understand that financial credibility is existential

Who We AreISRD is a private limited liability corporation operating in California and within the United States. The company boasts an extensive portfolio of intellectual property, consisting of patented technologies, trade secrets, and other valuable assets developed over a period of 30 years. ISRD operates as a virtual entity, utilizing the expertise of employees located in multiple states within the US and internationally.What We Sell, Our ProductOur corporation generates smaller corporations which are offered to partners as a "product." These smaller corporations serve as the partner's subsidiary for Installed Sales and provide field services on a national or international scale for the products sold by the partner. This "product" serves as an alternative to the partner acquiring existing field service companies, as the subsidiary is custom-built to the partner's specifications before being acquired directly from our corporation. The "product" may be viewed as a reverse engineered acquisition for the benefit of the partner.Why We SellThe installed sales industry heavily relies on a complex interconnection of individuals contributing to the industry, often without realizing they are working together. This is referred to as a "large-scale, open, sociotechnical system" in academic circles. At ISRD, we shift the reliance on "human delivery" to "product delivery" through the utilization of proprietary processes. We follow a structured approach of first architecting product solutions and then developing these solutions, resulting in a ready-to-deliver product. ISRD operates the subsidiary until it attains operational maturity and meets critical performance indicators (CPIs) in the areas of Effectiveness, Automation, Satisfaction, and Sustainability (EASS). Upon achieving these performance metrics, the subsidiary is sold to the partner in a turnkey transaction.How We Do ItAt ISRD, our passion goes beyond just making profits. We believe in the impact of our work and the positive difference it makes in society. Our product brings together diverse groups and enhances collaboration between blue-collar contractors, white-collar retailers, manufacturers, distributors, logistics companies, third-party vendors, and end consumers. Our team members take great pride in their contributions to the community and are motivated by their career growth, exposure to cutting-edge technology and advancements in complex system architecting, automation, machine learning, and artificial empathetic persuasion. Additionally, ISRD offers a competitive compensation package, attractive bonus plan, and the opportunity for corporate equity sharing, further fueling our team's commitment to excellence.How We Are PerceivedISRD, a high-level engineering and productization company, specializes in the architecture and development of a cognitive robotics business process automation engine. This engine generates installed sales corporations as a product. Although the product functions as an installation company for partners, ISRD is occasionally misperceived as an installation company. The ISRD International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC) code is 64.19, "Activities of Holding Companies," while the product produced by ISRD aligns with the ISIC code 43.22, "Installation of industrial machinery and equipment," which pertains to companies that install products in residential environments.

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