Finance Director (Contractor, Remote Latin America)

About the role

An AI transformation agency is looking for a Finance Director to build its finance and accounting practice from the ground up. The agency helps growing companies rebuild their operations with AI agents and automation, and its founder has a private equity background. The role is full-time, 100% remote from Latin America, paid in USD, with a start date of at least November 1, 2026.

Key responsibilities

• Manage daily bookkeeping, reconciliations, payables, receivables, payroll coordination and month-end close.
• Set clear workflows, review steps and controls, using QuickBooks as the primary accounting system.
• Connect revenue, cost and operational data to produce KPI dashboards and forecasts, including a weekly 13- or 26-week cash forecast per client.
• Build rolling 12- to 24-month forecasts and management reports linking accounting actuals to operating KPIs.
• Set up payables and receivables processes with owners, approval steps, payment calendars and escalation paths.
• Work with the operations engineer to map, automate and test finance workflows while keeping audit trails and controls intact.
• Design an operating model that works for one client now and three or four later.

Required profile

• Has managed an accounting department, team or finance function and can also do the work themselves.
• Strong FP&A skills: cash and rolling forecasts, budgets, variance analysis and management reports.
• Significant hands-on experience with QuickBooks; NetSuite and Sage are a plus.
• Understands reconciliations, close quality and controls, and knows how to review work from others and from automation.
• Has built a tool, workflow or prototype on their own initiative with an AI coding or cowork tool.
• Writes English well and speaks it conversationally on Zoom and client calls.

Applicants must live in Latin America and submit their CV in English; a short Loom video presentation is optional but gives priority. The engagement is a contractor arrangement, full-time and aligned with PST/CST hours.