Financial Controller

About Us Institute of Free Technology is a mission-driven tech startup studio. We take ideas from the drawing board to market with financial, technical, legal, people operations, and brand-building support at every step. Our startups are free to focus on what they do best — building public goods to safeguard civil liberties in the digital age. The role We are building a Core Accounting function with the pace and discipline of an in-house Finance team in financial services or trading — timely management accounts delivered to FP&A on a tight cadence that compresses as the function matures; reliable books that downstream consumers can build on; problems owned and resolved within the function. This position is a senior, autonomous hire responsible for ownership of the close and books integrity across a multi-entity, multi-jurisdiction group. Management accounts are the headline priority — the close cadence and data-quality standard are set to serve internal decision-making first; s