Assistant Controller

Overview

This role helps scale a high-accountability controllership function that protects recurring close and reporting while enabling an evolving funding model.

The organization is seeking an Assistant Controller who will be a senior individual contributor within US Accounting & Control. Primary ownership includes funding and special-purpose-vehicle (SPV) accounting, with Assistant Controller-level responsibilities across the broader controllership agenda.

Remote-first opportunity for US-based employees, with the option to work in-person out of the Manhattan office.

Please note: visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end accounting for funding structures and SPV legal entities, including legal-entity and chart-of-accounts design, journal-entry design, recurring close, reconciliations, and financial statement support.
• Lead the accounting workstream for new securitizations and funding transactions, including Day 1 transaction execution, operational readiness, post-close stabilization, and transition into sustainable recurring processes.
• Own recurring trustee, investor, and lender reporting support, ensuring accounting outputs, reconciliations, and reporting requirements are complete, accurate, and delivered on time.
• Design, document, and operate effective controls for funding, SPV, and related accounting processes; identify control gaps, drive remediation, and support SOX, internal audit, and external audit requirements.
• Protect the quality and timeliness of the US month-end close by reviewing complex accounting activity, balance-sheet substantiation, journal entries, fluxes, and issues through resolution.
• Support and deliver key components of the US GAAP audited financial statement process, including financial statement and disclosure preparation, audit support schedules, technical accounting documentation, and timely resolution of external audit requests.
• Oversee and review treasury, payroll, and compensation-related accounting activities, including routine monthly close processes, reconciliations, and associated controls.
• Coordinate with Treasury, Legal, Finance Systems, Credit Risk, Banking/Funding teams, and Audit to manage change, incidents, control efficacy, and cross-functional reporting requirements.
• Drive process standardization, documentation, and automation opportunities across controllership while maintaining accountable ownership of processes as systems and data capabilities mature.
• Serve as a senior accounting subject-matter expert on new products, business changes, and complex transactions; translate accounting requirements into scalable operating processes and clear recommendations to support stakeholder decisions.

Requirements

• 7+ years of progressive Accounting or Finance experience, including controllership, audit, complex month-end close, financial reporting, and balance-sheet ownership.
• Strong knowledge of US GAAP and excellent command of accounting and financial principles, including how business decisions and complex transactions impact the financial statements; IFRS knowledge is beneficial.
• CPA or CA qualified; Big 4 audit experience is an advantage.
• Hands-on experience with structured finance, securitization, SPVs, funding facilities, or similar legal-entity accounting; experience in financial services, fintech, private credit, or capital markets is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience designing, documenting, and operating internal controls, including SOX environments, audit coordination, and remediation of process or control gaps.
• Proven ability to translate transaction terms and business requirements into accounting conclusions, journal-entry logic, chart-of-accounts design, reconciliations, reporting, and sustainable close processes.
• Proven ability to lead complex cross-functional work through strong coaching, prioritization, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate with and influence stakeholders at multiple management levels, manage expectations, and drive issues to resolution.
• Strong analytical skills and superior attention to detail, supported by intermediate-to-advanced Excel skills, strong systems aptitude, and experience improving accounting processes through better data, reconciliations, workflow design, and automation.
• Comfort with ambiguity and limited precedent, with the independence and judgment to adapt in a fast-moving environment; deadline-driven and able to manage multiple competing priorities while maintaining a view of the big picture.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with structured finance, securitization, SPVs, funding facilities, or similar legal-entity accounting in financial services, fintech, private credit, or capital markets.

Compensation & Benefits

• Flexible working culture
• Incentive programs
• Unlimited PTO
• Generous paid parental leave
• Leading family support policies
• Company-sponsored 401k match
• Learning and wellness subscription stipend
• Employer-sponsored insurance for you and your dependents, with several 100% employer-covered choices available

Base pay range: $150k–$160k annual base pay for the US national compensation band (USN).

• Additional premium percentages may apply based on a tiered premium strategy.
• Total compensation may include other elements (including a bonus and/or commission awards), subject to individualized factors.

This role is at-will. The employer reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation or benefit program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, company or department/team performance, and market factors.

Location

• Remote-first for US-based employees
• Option to work in-person out of the Manhattan office