Controller
$199,000–$260,000 year
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Own the operating system of Engine's accounting function by raising the talent bar, ensuring the integrity of the close, and accelerating automation. Clarify decision rights across the leadership team to reduce unnecessary escalation and move priorities quickly from discussion to execution. Build a high-performing unit that operates with strong judgment and independence, developing managers and addressing capability gaps directly. Scale existing AI and automation to apply to reconciliations, anomaly detection, and management visibility, ensuring headcount grows slower than transaction volume. Modernize the already-disciplined 5-day close to be cleaner, faster, and less manual by strengthening ownership across revenue, AR, payroll, tax, and consolidations. Serve as a senior decision-maker across complex accounting and operational issues, making well-reasoned calls with imperfect information while driving cross-functional resolution with Product, Finance, and Systems teams. Prepare the function for the next phase of growth by anticipating where today's processes will break at tomorrow's scale and addressing those constraints early.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of progressive accounting leadership
- Controller, Assistant Controller, or equivalent responsibility in a high-growth environment
- CPA
- History of improving an established accounting function
- Proven ability to act as a talent magnet, improving the talent bar, developing the team, and building leadership depth
- AI-native, automation-forward operating style
- Demonstrated success reducing manual work and creating measurable operating leverage
- Strong multi-entity close
- Consolidation experience
- Reconciliation experience
- Financial statement experience
- Depth across ASC 606 (gross-versus-net and principal-agent analysis)
- Depth across ASC 842
- Depth across ASC 718
- Reserves experience
- Experience with other judgment-heavy areas
Desired Qualifications
- Travel, marketplace, fintech, payments, card-program, or high-volume transaction accounting experience
- Card receivables experience
- Rewards experience
- Supplier economics experience
- Merchant and agency models experience
- Complex revenue streams experience
- International experience
- Intercompany experience
- FX experience
- VAT/GST experience
- Transfer-pricing support experience
- Statutory reporting experience
- NetSuite experience
- Modern close experience
- Reconciliation tools experience
- Workflow tools experience
- BI tools experience
- Automation tools experience
- AI tools experience
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