Assistant Controller

Overview

This role is a senior financial leadership position responsible for partnering with the VP, Financial Operations & Controller, to oversee accounting operations, technical accounting, financial reporting, and related functions. The position is leveled at the Senior Manager or Director level based on experience, scope of expertise, and demonstrated leadership.

You will set direction, improve key processes, lead through others, and help ensure operations are efficient, audit-ready, and aligned with business strategy.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical accounting function, including leading U.S. GAAP research, policy development, and audit-ready documentation.
• Set the financial reporting roadmap and ensure technical conclusions are sound, scalable, and aligned with business strategy.
• Lead core accounting operations end-to-end, including payroll accounting, order-to-cash, close governance, and reconciliations—ensuring accuracy, strong controls, and continuous acceleration of cycle time.
• Own international accounting and tax compliance operations, including multi-currency consolidation, intercompany eliminations, statutory reporting, and domestic and cross-border tax filings.
• Serve as a key liaison to external auditors and tax advisors.
• Build, coach, and develop a high-performing accounting team by establishing clear standards, scalable playbooks, and a culture of technical excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Drive accounting transformation through process standardization, automation, and responsible AI adoption, improving speed and scalability without sacrificing controls or auditability.
• Establish and continuously strengthen the internal controls environment by designing, documenting, and maintaining SOPs, control frameworks, and process standards across accounting operations.
• Drive SOX readiness through control design, scoping, and deficiency remediation, including structured training and clear ownership to support SOP adoption and continuous improvement.
• Own global technical accounting and reporting governance, including revenue recognition, leases, equity compensation, impairments, business combinations, strategic transactions, new products, non-standard commercial arrangements, and emerging standards.

Requirements (At a Minimum)

• 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 a national firm), plus additional experience in a technology, SaaS, or similarly complex business environment.
• Deep technical accounting expertise, with a 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, including 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.
• Direct experience implementing new tools and managing accounting and tax compliance operations.
• Exceptional communication and cross-functional influence skills, including the ability to explain technical accounting risks and recommendations clearly to finance and non-finance leaders.
• 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.
• 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.

Preferred Qualifications (Ideally, You’ll Also Have)

• 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 balancing speed, accuracy, controls, auditability, and business usability.

Compensation & Benefits

• Annual starting salary range: $150,000 - $200,000.
• Eligibility for competitive benefits as part of a total rewards package.
• Depending on the role, eligibility for an equity award.
• Actual compensation is influenced by factors including skills, experience, and specific work location.

Benefits and perks include

• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Home internet stipend
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Maternity/paternity leave program
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Professional Development Reimbursement Program
• 401(k) retirement savings plans (Pre-Tax and Roth)
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) - Medical & Dependent Care
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with company contribution
• Healthy at Houzz program

Location

Roles listing Remote - US as a location are not currently available in the following states: Alaska, Hawaii, Louisiana and Montana.

Equal Employment Opportunity

The employer is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Applications will be considered regardless of sex, race, color, gender, national origin, height or weight, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age, sexual orientation, military and veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law or ordinance or regulation.

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