Finance Controller

Location: Exton, PA (On-site preferred/Remote considered) 

Reporting to: CFO & COO

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About Righteous Felon: 

At Righteous Felon, we’re redefining what meat snacks can be. We pair bold, unforgettable flavors with quality ingredients and a brand voice that stands out in a crowded category. From jerky to sticks to biltong, every product delivers a best-in-class snacking experience designed to win over fans and keep them coming back. 

Protein snacking is the fastest-growing category in all of food—and Righteous Felon is the fastest-growing brand in the category, leading the way with year-over-year growth that far outpaces the competition. 

We’ve built our business from the ground up with a small, driven team that works hard, cares deeply about our customer experience, are obsessive about our products, leverage technology to move fast, and takes pride in doing things the right way. Our culture is about finding a way, winning, and having fun while doing it together as a team. Our omnichannel model spans eCommerce, club, grocery, and convenience, giving us the scale to grow quickly while staying nimble and innovative. 

We push ourselves and each other to get better every day—because building something disruptive is hard work, but it’s also deeply rewarding when you do it as a team. 

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive salary and bonus commensurate with role responsibilities and candidate experience. Option to participate in the employee benefit programs including: 
• 401k with a 4% matching contribution 
• Healthcare Reimbursement option via a HRA-105 program 
• Endless snacks 

Role Overview

Righteous Felon is seeking an experienced and innovative Controller to lead the accounting, financial strategy, reporting, and planning for our fast-growing snack portfolio. This role is ideal for a finance leader with 7 years of experience in the Food & Beverage manufacturing sector, who thrives at the intersection of data, systems, and strategic insight. You will be accountable for everything from high-level forecasting and board reporting to inventory valuation and factory yield measurement. 

A successful candidate will be deeply proficient in QuickBooks Online (current system), NetSuite (future system), Excel, and PowerPoint, and possess an active passion for AI, with a drive to integrate emerging tools into forecasting, cost modeling, and operational dashboards. You’ll collaborate closely with manufacturing copackers to ensure systematic cost and yield tracking, margin accuracy, and scalable controls across the value chain. 

Core Responsibilities

Accounting & Financial Reporting 

• Oversee all accounting operations, ensuring timely, accurate, and GAAP-compliant financial closes. 
• Manage monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting, including internal dashboards and board-level financial presentations. 
• Ensure accounting data integrity and compliance across systems (QuickBooks Online currently; NetSuite future state), including reconciliations, controls, and audit readiness. 
• Maintain daily cash flow oversight, including disbursements, collections, and liquidity forecasting. 

Lead Accounting/ERP System Migration from QuickBooks Online to NetSuite 

• Lead Accounting Migration: Own and manage all accounting aspects of the transition from QuickBooks Online to NetSuite, ensuring data accuracy, compliance, and minimal disruption. 
• Process Design & Testing: Map financial data, refine workflows, and oversee testing and reconciliation to validate integrity across GL, AP/AR, and inventory modules. 
• Training & Post-Go-Live Support: Document new procedures, train staff, and drive adoption while optimizing reporting and internal controls post-launch. 

Financial Strategy & Business Planning 

• Lead financial strategy across all business functions, including multi-year forecasting, annual budgeting, and scenario planning to support company-wide objectives. 
• Develop and own financial models and frameworks that evaluate margin scenarios, capital investments, and new product initiatives. 
• Partner with executive leadership to define strategic financial goals, ensure alignment with operational KPIs, and guide data-driven decision-making. 

Margin Management & Commercial Finance 

• Collaborate with Sales, Supply Chain, and Operations to guide pricing strategies, vendor negotiations, and promotional planning with the goal of driving sustainable margin expansion. 
• Analyze and optimize margin performance by channel and product category, including detailed review of cost inputs such as raw materials, packaging, labor, and logistics. 
• Lead margin improvement initiatives, identifying key cost levers and performance-enhancing opportunities across the P&L. 

Costing & Inventory Management 

• Work closely with manufacturing partners to ensure accurate product costing, inventory valuation, and yield analysis at the SKU level. 
• Implement standard costing and real-time inventory tracking within NetSuite to drive cost transparency and operational efficiency. 
• Continuously evaluate and refine cost structures, including BOMs, freight, warehousing, and third-party processing fees. 

Finance Technology, Automation & AI Integration 

• Identify and deploy AI and automation tools to enhance forecasting accuracy, streamline reporting, and build real-time dashboards. 
• Leverage technology to improve financial workflows, including automation within NetSuite and efficiency upgrades in Excel-based modeling. 

Team Leadership & Development 

• Build and lead a high-performance finance and accounting team, emphasizing operational excellence, cross-functional collaboration, and results ownership. 
• Foster a culture of accountability, learning, and systems thinking, with a focus on scalable processes and continuous improvement. 

Additional Duties & Responsibilities: 

• Protect company assets and inventory through strong checks, reconciliations, and vendor oversight 
• Coordinate with external auditors, tax advisors, and compliance professionals to maintain financial integrity 
• Support due diligence and integration for M&A activity, licensing, or strategic partnerships 
• Develop and manage product P&Ls at the SKU level, including new product development cost modeling 
• Provide financial coaching to internal teams on budgeting, spend optimization, and metrics literacy 
• Evaluate make-vs-buy and vendor sourcing decisions based on ROI and cost modeling 
• Translate complex financial data into clear, actionable insights for both financial and non-financial stakeholders 

Competencies

• Role Expertise: Demonstrates critical technical or professional knowledge/skills related to the role. Has thorough knowledge of relevant products, services and methods. Expands technical knowledge/skills and keeps up-to-date in their own area of expertise. 
• Problem Solving: Draws parallels across situations and contexts. Divides problems into their individual elements. Develops several explanations or alternatives. Separates the core of a problem from its symptoms and can identify cause and effect. 
• Initiative & Organization: Proactive. Seizes opportunities and acts upon them immediately. Takes responsibility for own actions and addresses problems before asked. Holds organization for themselves and their principal in the highest regard and strives daily to keep their manager ultra-organized.  
• Planning & Objective Setting: Systematic in approach to work. Produces action plans in which objectives are defined and steps for achieving them are clearly specified. Plans by breaking down large tasks into subtasks. Develops plans that anticipate obstacles. Is realistic about time-scales and builds in appropriate checkpoints, milestones and controls in order to ensure that desired results are realized. 
• Strategic Approach: Develops a strategic plan to realize the vision. Revises strategy in light of changing circumstances. Takes a long-term view of organizational success. Works to clarify long term organizational goals. Able to stand back from immediate problems in order to focus on more far reaching ideas. 
• Information Seeking: Consults widely for business or technical advice, probes for facts and obtains information from a wide variety of sources. Differentiates the critical from the irrelevant or trivial. 
• Impact: Makes an immediate positive impression upon others. Has presence and commands respect. Comes across with force and quickly establishes credibility. Accurately predicts the effects of one's own words and actions. Makes an immediate positive impression upon others. 
• Results Orientation: Focuses strongly on achieving agreed upon outcomes and ensures that key objectives are met. Conveys a sense of urgency and drives issues to closure. Aims to improve upon past performance. Establishes aggressive personal targets and strives to achieve them. 
• Commercial Acumen: Applies appropriate commercial and financial principles. Understands situations in terms of costs, profits, added-value and return on investment. Appreciates the commercial impact of own work on the organization’s total expenses and revenues. 

Preferred Experience / Qualifications

The following indicates specific industry, academic and functional experience/qualifications that are important to the successful achievement of the identified responsibilities and performance deliverables. 

• Minimum 7 years of progressive experience in accounting and controllership roles within the Food & Beverage or CPG manufacturing industries 
• Deep expertise in QuickBooks and NetSuite ERP, especially in modules related to inventory, costing, and financial reporting. Experience leading a systems migration is a plus. 
• Advanced proficiency in Excel, including modeling, pivot tables, and VBA/macros; strong experience with PowerPoint for board-level storytelling 
• Passion for AI, automation tools, and next-generation finance technologies 
• Strong knowledge of inventory accounting, BOM costing, and yield variance tracking 
• CPA preferred 
• Experience working in fast-growing, entrepreneurial, or PE-backed businesses a plus