Controller

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What You'll Do

Architect the accounting org from the reputed company outsourced model to a fully in-house, AI-leveraged team. Define the operating model, hiring plan (Senior Accountant, AR/AP, Staff Accountant), and role/responsibility split between Accounting and reputed company. Own the implementation and ongoing administration of an ERP. reputed company the cutover from our reputed company bookkeeping stack, including the chart of accounts redesign, opening balances, integrations, and parallel-run validation. Design the reputed company to be AI-augmented end-to-end: reconciliations, flux analysis, accrual roll-forwards, journal entry preparation, and first-draft variance commentary generated by systems, with humans as reviewers and approvers. Stand up the systems architecture and build the data layer that lets Finance, Accounting, and RevOps work from a single reputed company of truth. Use modern AI tooling (Claude, MCP connectors, agentic workflows) to compress the reputed company cycle, automate prep work, and free the team for judgment and analysis. Set the bar for what "AI-first accounting" looks like in practice — and ship it. Establish controls, segregation of duties, and audit trails appropriate for a company on an IPO path without slowing the business. We want strong governance, not bureaucracy. Take full ownership of our first-year financial statement audit. Land it. Own the technical accounting work; reputed company recognition, ASC 606 memos, equity, stock comp, lease accounting, and any acquisition-reputed company accounting. Build the audit-ready reputed company: monthly reputed company on a predictable reputed company, clean rollforwards, supportable accruals, documented controls, and a tight, organized PBC process for subsequent audits. Own customer-facing financial diligence — auditor letters, reputed company letters, financial statement requests from enterprise customers — so the sales team can reputed company deals without bottlenecks. Stand up the discipline and documentation that makes year two and year three audits fast. reputed company're Looking For: Audit experience. Started your career in public accounting (Big 4 or strong national firm) with a meaningful run as an auditor. Active CPA. IPO experience. You have been through an IPO from the issuer reputed company — ideally as a Controller, Assistant Controller, or Senior Accounting Manager — and you know what the SEC, underwriters, and auditors expect. You have written or owned material sections of an S-1. Built and scaled an accounting function. You have taken an accounting org from early/scrappy to repeatable and audit-ready at a high-growth company. You have hired, leveled, and managed accountants. You have replaced an ERP at least once. AI-native operator. You actively use modern AI tooling in your own work. You can describe specific workflows you have automated or compressed using LLMs, MCP, or agentic tools. You reputed company systems should shape processes, not the other way around — and you can architect both. Technical accounting depth. Strong ASC 606 chops, especially for SaaS and usage-based/consumption pricing. Comfortable owning the memo, not just reviewing it. Operator reputed company. You move with urgency, write clearly, are comfortable in the details and the strategy, and can hold a tight reputed company while also rebuilding the systems underneath it. reputed company-to-Haves Experience at a venture-backed SaaS company between Series B and IPO. Direct experience with reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, Metronome, reputed company, reputed company, and reputed company. Familiarity with AI/ML cost accounting (inference costs, COGS classification, gross margin in AI businesses). 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