Controller

Silver Lining is hiring a Financial Controller to own the day-to-day finance, bookkeeping, and compliance function for the company. This is a hands-on execution role — not a strategic CFO seat. You keep the books clean, the filings on time, and the numbers trustworthy, so the founders and leadership can make decisions on financials they can rely on.

You take over the day-to-day finance operations the company has been running in-house, working closely with leadership and our external accountants. You own accuracy, timeliness, and compliance end to end, and you are the single point of accountability for the integrity of our books.

How we work — read this before applying Silver Lining is building toward a modern, AI-assisted finance function. Our intent is to automate the routine reporting, reconciliation, and data-preparation work — and this role is central to helping set that up and then running it as the human in the loop.

In practice that means you will help stand up the tooling and processes, then review, validate, correct, and sign off on AI-prepared work — owning the accuracy and compliance judgment that no tool can own. You should be genuinely comfortable working alongside AI finance tools: directing them, catching their mistakes, knowing when not to trust them, and being personally accountable for the final output that leadership and regulators see.

This is not a role for someone who wants to do everything by hand, and it is not a role for someone who will rubber-stamp whatever a tool produces. We want a controller who treats automation as leverage and treats their own review as the control that makes it safe. Candidates with experience operating as the human reviewer in an AI-augmented or highly automated finance function are strongly preferred.

What you'll do:

Bookkeeping & month-end close Own day-to-day bookkeeping in QuickBooks Online — transaction categorization, journal entries, accruals, and a disciplined month-end close.

Maintain a clean, auditable chart of accounts and consistent coding.

Accounts payable & receivable

Manage AP and AR end to end; run, reconcile, and chase aging.

Ensure vendors are paid on time and receivables are collected and applied correctly.

Reconciliations

Perform and document bank, credit card, and balance-sheet account reconciliations on a fixed cadence.

Investigate and resolve discrepancies, leaving a clear audit trail.

Payroll Support payroll processing and reconciliation; ensure payroll is recorded accurately and on schedule.