Fractional CFO Job Los Angeles area,California USA,Accounting

Who you are

You think in reconciliations. Every number ties to something outside the system that produced it, or it is not a number yet. You form a working model of an unfamiliar ledger fast, find where the model is wrong, and say so in writing
AI is how you work now. You have let a machine draft the mechanics and then caught what it got wrong, and you can describe exactly how you verified it. You write plainly, because the readout you hand a founder is the product. You can own a decision at 10 to 15 hours a week, which means you drop the re-performing and keep the judgment
You have probably made a close fast and kept the before-and-after numbers, or built a 13-week forecast a CEO ran cash on. Or you refused to sign a number, and you can say what happened next. A CPA is a plus. We care about the artifact and the reasoning more than the firm on your resume
If your resume is unconventional but the work above is yours,

What the job involves

A controller-grade seat with CFO judgment, 10 to 15 hours a week. You sign the monthly close of a profitable $22 million company whose books are kept by machines, own its 13-week forecast, and write the one-page readout the founder runs on
Product.ai is the verified truth layer for shopping: when a person or an AI agent needs to know what is actually true about a purchase, we answer with proof. Simply Codes is the first proof at scale, the code verification service whose robots run real checkouts so shoppers only see codes that actually work
Earns about $22 million a year. Profitable. Bootstrapped. Founder-owned since 2009. No outside investors. No board. Fewer than twenty operators, outbuilding companies 10x our size
Today the close is signed in-house, and this seat makes the signature independent. An in-house ledger anchors every transaction to a bank or card statement, and a month closes only when the categorized rollup re-derives the bank-verified cash change to the cent. AI agents ingest the statements, post the reconciliations, and flag the exceptions. A company that sells verified truth keeps its books by the same rule, so a number counts as true only when it ties to a source outside the system and a person independent of the machine signs it
The machine already fills the preparer seat, so you are the CPA-grade eyes on the close. You own the rules the machine runs on, decide what it could not, prove nothing was dropped, and put your name on the month. You also own the 13-week forecast and the operating budget, and you write the one-page readout the founder runs the company on
You work directly with the founder and with the operator who runs day-to-day finance and administration. You hand clean financials to our outside tax CPA firm. You hold no payment authority, by design
A statement-anchored ledger. Every month reconciles to the cent against bank and card statements, and the close signs only when the categorized rollup re-derives that cash change exactly. It is a custom, in-house ledger, and we are not migrating it. Comfort inside a client-built system is the scarce skill
Machine-kept books with a human signature. AI agents do the mechanics, so they ingest, match, post, and flag. You work in a review dashboard and in written rulings. The agents post, you rule on the exception queue, and the ledger records your call. The signature is an internal management sign-off, and our outside tax CPA firm remains the external preparer
Affiliate commission revenue. Commissions accrue when a network confirms a sale and reverse when the shopper returns it. Settlement comes on the network's calendar, so revenue recognition and the cash forecast both depend on that lag
A standard general ledger kept in sync for the tax CPA. We keep a standard general-ledger package in sync from our ledger. Our ledger is the source of truth, so the mirror never originates a number. You run the sync and verify each month's balances against the statement anchors
An owner-operator structure. One owner today, plus a team ownership program. The books must keep its capital accounts, distributions, and grants clean from the first month
The monthly close and its signature. Stage the statements, make the categorization rulings, reconcile to $0.00, and sign. You own the exception ledger, so every rejected or corrected item is accounted for and every rule change is authorized by you. Statement and payroll-journal intake runs on your clock. If you and the founder disagree on a ruling, your dissent goes into that ledger in writing, and…