Financial partnership for the new generation of business owners

The women entrepreneurs, the diverse founders, and the unconventional operators who bring a different kind of energy to what they build. We work with ambitious owner-operators of all backgrounds and we're especially proud of the ones who are rewriting what business looks like.

Why we started Paprika

Paprika Partners was founded on a simple belief: that small and mid-sized businesses deserve the same quality of financial partnership as the big ones. We built this firm together after years of watching smart, driven business owners fly blind. Great companies making avoidable mistakes. Real opportunities missed. 

We built the firm we wished existed. One with deep CPA-level expertise, but without the stiffness. One that picks up the phone, knows your team by name, and genuinely cares whether you win.

Industry: Accounting
Company Size: 2-10 employees

Paprika Partners Inc

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A Little Spice Goes a Long Way

Paprika Partners is a boutique financial firm built for a new generation of business owners. The ambitious owner-operators, the diverse founders, and the unconventional builders who deserve the same quality of financial partnership as the big guys.

We provide bookkeeping, accounting, advisory, and fractional CFO services for businesses ranging from $2M-$20M in revenue.

We're not a corporate shop. We move fast, we think in systems, we geek out on AI and technology, and we show up as real human beings who genuinely care whether our clients win. Our team is small, deeply collaborative, and building something we're all proud of, and we're looking for someone who wants to be part of that.

The Role

As a Fractional Controller at Paprika Partners, you’ll be a senior financial lead for a portfolio of owner-operated businesses. You’ll own the client relationship, oversee the quality and accuracy of the accounting function, and help founders understand what their numbers are really telling them.

This is a senior role, but it is not a “review from a distance” role. The right person can move comfortably between high-level financial strategy and hands-on execution. One moment you may be advising a founder on cash flow, margins, or hiring decisions. The next, you may be reviewing journal entries, tightening month-end close, cleaning up a balance sheet, or helping resolve an AP/AR issue that needs real judgment.

You’ll report directly to the founder and lead principal of the firm and work closely with Accounting Managers, Staff Accountants, Bookkeepers, and FP&A team members. This role will not directly manage other team members, but it will be expected to guide work, review deliverables, raise standards, provide technical direction, and help ensure nothing falls through the cracks.

This is a seat for someone who has formal accounting training, real private-company experience, and the mindset of an owner/operator. You know what strong accounting looks like, but you also understand that business owners need clarity, practicality, and judgment, not just technically correct financial statements.

What You'll Do

**Client Relationship Owner **

- Serve as the primary relationship owner for a dedicated portfolio of approximately 5–8 clients

- Build strong, trusted relationships with founders, owners, and leadership teams

- BUnderstand each client’s business model, goals, pain points, and financial drivers

- Lead recurring client meetings, including monthly and quarterly financial reviews

- Translate accounting and financial data into clear, practical recommendations

- Proactively identify risks, opportunities, process gaps, and decision points

- Help clients make better decisions around cash flow, profitability, hiring, pricing, growth, and operational efficiency

- Maintain a high standard of responsiveness, professionalism, and follow-through across all client relationships

**Accounting Oversight & Execution **

- Oversee full-cycle accounting for multiple client accounts

- Ensure client books are accurate, complete, timely, and useful for decision-making

- Review and/or prepare:

-  > Monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements, Balance sheet reconciliations, General ledger activity, Journal entries and accruals, AP and AR workflows, Cash flow reports, Month-end close packages

- Identify and resolve accounting issues before they become client-facing problems

- Maintain compliance with GAAP and applicable accounting standards

- Review work prepared by Accounting Managers, Staff Accountants, and Bookkeepers as needed

- Guide the team on technical accounting questions, workflow improvements, and client-specific accounting treatment

- Step in directly when needed to execute accounting work, clean up messy books, or move a client deliverable across the finish line

**Advisory, Analysis & FP&A Partnership **

- Partner with FP&A team members to connect accounting results with forward-looking analysis

- Help ensure financial reporting, forecasting, and advisory work are aligned

- Support budgeting, forecasting, cash flow planning, and profitability analysis

- Interpret trends, margins, KPIs, and financial performance for business owners

- Help clients understand the “why” behind the numbers, not just the numbers themselves

- Provide practical recommendations grounded in accurate accounting and real business context

- Customize reporting and analysis based on each client’s industry, goals, and operating model

**Process, Systems & Standards **

- Improve accounting workflows, close processes, documentation, and reporting standards

- Help standardize best practices across client accounts while recognizing that each business is different

- Use technology to improve accuracy, efficiency, and visibility

- Work confidently across QuickBooks Online, Xero, Google Sheets, Excel, Bill.com, and various ERP systems

- Help build scalable systems that support better client service and a stronger internal team

- Maintain clear documentation so work can be understood, reviewed, and repeated

What We're Looking For

- 8–12 years of progressive accounting experience

- Experience in both public accounting and private accounting

- CPA strongly preferred

- Strong technical accounting foundation and working knowledge of GAAP

- Experience serving business owners, leadership teams, or multiple client accounts

- Strong understanding of full-cycle accounting, month-end close, financial reporting, AP, AR, journal entries, reconciliations, and accruals

- Ability to operate as both a strategic advisor and a hands-on doer

- Strong client service instincts and relationship management skills

- Ability to communicate clearly with non-financial stakeholders

- Strong business acumen and the ability to think like an owner/operator

- High attention to detail without losing sight of the bigger picture

- Strong organizational and time management skills

- Ability to manage multiple clients, priorities, deadlines, and moving pieces at once

- Proactive problem-solving mindset

- Comfort working in a fast-paced, collaborative, entrepreneurial environment

- Strong proficiency with QuickBooks Online, Xero, Google Sheets, Excel, and Bill.com

- Experience working in or around ERP systems

- Familiarity with outsourced accounting, fractional CFO, advisory, or multi-client service environments is a plus

What Success Looks Like

- Clients see you as their trusted financial partner, not just their accountant

- Client books are accurate, timely, and decision-ready

- Month-end close processes are clean, consistent, and well-managed

- Accounting issues are identified and resolved proactively

- Client meetings are clear, useful, and grounded in real business insight

- Accounting and FP&A work are aligned, practical, and valuable

- Internal team members feel supported by your guidance and review

- The founder can trust you to own client relationships, maintain standards, guide the work, and raise the level of the firm

- You bring both technical rigor and practical judgment to every client engagement

- You contribute to a team culture where people invest in each other’s growth and enjoy working together

Why Paprika Partners

We built the firm we wished existed. One with deep expertise but without the stiffness. One that picks up the phone, knows your team by name, and truly cares whether you win. Working here means:

- Competitive salary: $140,000–$155,000 DOE

- Full-time role with meaningful ownership

- Hybrid schedule: 3 days/week in our Roseville, CA office

- 401(k) with employer contribution

- Competitive PTO

- Paid parental leave

- Real agency over your client relationships and input into the direction of the firm

- A people-first, inclusive, passionate team building a culture we’re proud to be part of

- AI-empowered workflows and a team that invests in staying ahead of the curve

**THE NAME PAPRIKA WASN'T ACCIDENTAL. A SPICE DOESN'T TAKE OVER THE DISH. IT BRINGS OUT WHAT'S ALREADY THERE. THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE'RE HERE TO DO. **

Fractional Controller

**A little spice goes a long way **

Paprika Partners is a boutique financial firm built for a new generation of business owners. The ambitious owner-operators, the diverse founders, and the unconventional builders who deserve the same quality of financial partnership as the big guys. We provide bookkeeping, accounting, advisory, and fractional CFO services for businesses ranging from $2M-$20M in revenue.

We're not a corporate shop. We move fast, we think in systems, we geek out on AI and technology, and we show up as real human beings who genuinely care whether our clients win. Our team is small, deeply collaborative, and building something we're all proud of, and we're looking for someone who wants to be part of that.

**The Role: **

This is not a button-clicking, template-maintaining kind of seat. You'll be the financial modeling engine behind a portfolio of owner-operated businesses, building from scratch, thinking critically, and communicating directly with founders who are counting on your work to make real decisions.

The title is flexible, Analyst or Senior Analyst, depending on where you are in your career. What matters more is that you're sharp, fast, client-ready, and genuinely excited about the kind of work we do.

You'll collaborate closely with our founder, Accounting Managers, Staff Accountants, and Bookkeepers, a tight-knit team where everyone is in it together and nothing falls through the cracks.

**What You'll Do: **

**Client Advisory & Financial Strategy: **

- Manage multiple client engagements concurrently with strong organization and prioritization

- Serve as a strategic financial partner to assigned clients

- Build strong, trusted relationships with clients by understanding their business needs and financial goals, ensuring a long-term engagement and client retention

- Lead financial review meetings, presenting insights, trends, and recommendations

- Help clients understand key drivers of revenue, cost, and profitability

- Provide guidance on budgeting, forecasting, and long-term financial planning

- Support business decision-making (hiring, pricing, expansion, cost control, etc.)

- Deliver weekly, monthly and quarterly financial analysis packages, including:

- KPI dashboards

- Trend analysis

- Margin and profitability analysis

- Cash flow projections

- Translate financial data into clear, concise narratives for non-financial stakeholders

- Customize reporting based on client needs and industry

- Implement and improve financial planning tools and dashboards by leveraging technology to automate and enhance reporting

- Standardize FP&A processes across client engagements

- Partner with Accounting Managers to ensure alignment between financial reporting and forecasting

**Forecasting, Budgeting, & Cash Flow: **

- Strong proficiency in financial modeling and forecasting with the ability to translate complex data into clear, actionable insights

- Strong business acumen and strategic thinking skills

- Strong ability to build partnerships with business owners and client leadership teams

- Strong client service and relationship management skills

- High attention to detail with strong analytical capabilities

- Strong organizational and time management skills; ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines

- Excellent verbal/written communication and presentation skills with ability to effectively communicate with managers, clients, customers, contractors, peers and vendors

- Problem-solving mindset with a proactive approach

- Ability to work in fast paced and results driven environment

- Learn quickly, understand/follow instruction and adapt to new problems and situations

- Team player; ability to cultivate team environment

- Must be tactful and able to resolve disputes

- Ability to present professional appearance and behavior in accordance company policies

- Ability to meet all safety and physical requirements of the job with or without reasonable accommodation

**What We're Looking For: **

- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field; MBA, CFA, or CPA preferred

- 5+ years of experience in FP&A, corporate finance, or financial consulting

- Experience working with multiple clients or business units

- Prior experience managing multiple clients/accounts simultaneously

- Experience working with small to mid-sized businesses

- Familiarity with outsourced accounting or fractional CFO environments

- Understanding of GAAP and financial statements

- Strong proficiency in Excel (scenario modeling, advanced formulas)

- Experience with financial reporting tools and dashboards (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, or similar)

- Proficiency with MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)/Google Workspace (Drive, Docs, Sheets, Gmail)

- Proficiency with accounting software (QuickBooks, Xero, etc.) and ERP software (Netsuite, Brightpearl, etc.)

**What Success Looks Like: **

- Clients rely on you as a strategic partner, not just a financial analyst

- Forecasts are accurate, insightful, and drive better business decisions

- Financial insights are clear, actionable, and tailored to each client

- Proactively identify risks and opportunities before they impact performance

- Reporting processes are efficient, scalable, and value-driven

- You contribute to a team culture where people invest in each other's growth and genuinely enjoy working together

**Why Paprika Partners: **

We built the firm we wished existed. One with deep expertise but without the stiffness. One that picks up the phone, knows your team by name, and genuinely cares whether you win. Working here means:

- 401(k) with employer contribution

- Competitive PTO

- Paid parental leave

- Real ownership: you'll have genuine agency over your client relationships and input into the direction of the firm

- A team that is people-first, inclusive, and passionate. We're building a culture that we’re all proud to be part of

- AI-empowered workflows and a team that invests in staying ahead of the curve

THE NAME PAPRIKA WASN'T ACCIDENTAL. A SPICE DOESN'T TAKE OVER THE DISH. IT BRINGS OUT WHAT'S ALREADY THERE. THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE'RE HERE TO DO.

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