Controller

• Own the financial backbone of Reflective — running financial controls, leading budgeting and forecasting, managing cash flow, and overseeing spend and contracts.
• Build dashboards and reporting cadences for timely, accurate financial reporting to leadership, the Board, funders, and the team.
• Manage financial administration across the lifecycle of external relationships, including grant agreements, vendor contracts, and consultant agreements.
• Ensure compliance with GAAP, nonprofit accounting standards, and restricted-fund reporting obligations.

By ensuring sound financial management and controls, this role enables Reflective to responsibly advance sunlight reflection research and development, which may be critical for rapidly limiting climate impacts in the coming decades.

• 6+ years of progressive finance and accounting experience, including a controller, assistant controller, or equivalent senior role.
• Deep, hands-on expertise in financial controls, budgeting, forecasting, cash management, and GAAP.
• Exceptionally organized and detail-oriented with strong documentation practices.
• Clear communicator who can translate financial complexity into plain language for non-finance colleagues, the Board, and funders.

Annual salary between $140,000 and $180,000 USD, depending on experience. Comprehensive benefits include medical, dental, vision insurance, 401(k), professional and personal development, generous paid time off and sick leave (including 12 weeks paid parental leave), and flexible working hours.

Reflective is a philanthropically-funded initiative dedicated to developing the knowledge base and technology research and development for sunlight reflection, a potential option to rapidly limit climate impacts alongside emissions reductions and carbon removal.