Assistant Controller
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Own the company's technical accounting function, leading U.S. GAAP research, policy development, and audit-ready documentation while setting the financial reporting roadmap. Lead core accounting operations end-to-end, including payroll, order-to-cash, close governance, and reconciliations to ensure accuracy and accelerate cycle time. Own international accounting and tax compliance operations spanning multi-currency consolidation and statutory reporting while serving as a key liaison to external auditors. Build and coach a high-performing team by establishing clear standards, scalable playbooks, and a culture of technical excellence. Drive accounting transformation through process standardization, automation, and responsible AI adoption to build a faster, more scalable finance function. Establish and strengthen the internal controls environment by designing and maintaining SOPs and control frameworks across accounting operations. Drive SOX readiness through control design, scoping, and deficiency remediation while championing SOP adoption across the team.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of progressive accounting experience, including significant leadership experience across technical accounting, financial reporting, controls, and operational accounting
- CPA license (required) with public accounting experience, preferably Big 4 or national firm, with additional experience in a technology, SaaS, or similarly complex business environment
- Deep technical accounting expertise and a demonstrated track record of translating complex U.S. GAAP guidance into practical, scalable business applications
- Proven experience preparing, reviewing, and approving technical accounting memos, accounting policies, audit support, reporting deliverables, and executive-level accounting conclusions
- Excellence in leading and developing team members, setting review standards, coaching technical judgment, and building repeatable operating practices across accounting or reporting functions
- Hands-on working knowledge of month-end close, reconciliations, flux analysis, journal entry review, accruals, and intercompany activity—as well as direct experience implementing new tools and accounting, and tax compliance operations
- Exceptional communication and cross-functional influence skills, with the ability to explain technical accounting risks and recommendations clearly to finance and non-finance leaders alike
- Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-paced environments where priorities shift and success requires strategic judgment, practical decision-making, hands-on execution, and disciplined follow-through
- A bias toward action and continuous improvement, with practical interest and judgment in using AI, automation, and systems-enabled workflows to improve accounting quality, controls, and scalability
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in SaaS, software, marketplace, subscription, or high-growth technology environments
- Experience with ASC 606, equity-based compensation, software capitalization, leases, impairments, business combinations, strategic transactions, and other complex technical accounting areas
- Experience supporting IPO readiness, public-company reporting standards, SOX readiness, scaled audit requirements, or finance transformation initiatives
- Experience partnering with executive leadership, external auditors, outside advisors, and legal or tax stakeholders on complex accounting matters
- Experience with NetSuite, Numeric, Anrok, Salesforce, SQL, BI tools, close automation, reporting automation, or similar accounting and reporting systems
- Experience evaluating or implementing AI-enabled finance and accounting tools and a track record of building practical processes, playbooks, policies, and team routines that balance speed, accuracy, controls, auditability, and business usability
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