Controller

Overview

This role is for a hands-on Controller who will own the day-to-day accounting function, including monthly close, consolidated US GAAP financials, audits, controls, and technical accounting. The position reports to the CFO and is responsible for ensuring the integrity of reported results, developing the team, and improving how the accounting function operates.

The business combines SaaS and prepaid customer wallets with a global gift marketplace, branded merchandise, and international fulfillment—creating complex accounting across revenue recognition, principal versus agent judgments, wallet balances and breakage, physical goods, intercompany activity, FX, tax, and statutory reporting.

Responsibilities

• Own the monthly, quarterly, and year-end close and US GAAP consolidation across six entities, including intercompany, FX revaluation, and translation; drive a reliable close in 10 working days or fewer.
• Own balance sheet integrity by ensuring material accounts are properly reconciled, supported, and reviewed.
• Lead technical accounting analysis across revenue recognition, principal versus agent, customer wallet balances and breakage, landed cost, and vendor rebates; recommend positions to the CFO and ensure correct implementation.
• Lead group and UK statutory audits from planning through fieldwork and sign-off.
• Own and improve internal controls, including controls over prepaid customer wallet funds and segregation of duties.
• Manage statutory accounts and tax compliance with external advisers, including corporate tax, US sales tax, and UK and EU VAT.
• Partner cross-functionally with leaders and teams on finance-involved projects and new initiatives, bringing both accounting and commercial perspective and driving work through completion.
• Improve accounting processes, systems, and automation across NetSuite and key integrations to increase speed, accuracy, and efficiency.
• Lead, develop, and performance-manage the international accounting team, setting clear expectations and maintaining a high bar for performance.

Requirements

• Strong, hands-on accounting background, typically 8+ years, ideally including public accounting or experience in a complex, multi-entity business.
• Strong US GAAP knowledge, including ASC 606 and principal versus agent judgments.
• Experience owning a multi-entity, multi-currency close and consolidation, including intercompany and FX, and leading external audits.
• Strong technical and business judgment; ability to research accounting positions, understand broader implications, and communicate clear recommendations.
• Proven cross-functional leadership experience: builds credibility across the business, works independently and collaboratively, and drives complex work through resolution.
• Strong people leadership: sets clear expectations, develops high performers, addresses underperformance, and builds capability across the team.
• Experience designing and operating internal controls in an audited environment.
• Hands-on ERP experience, ideally NetSuite, with a track record of using systems and automation to improve processes.
• Proactive and organized, comfortable taking ownership in a fast-moving international business.

Preferred Qualifications

• CPA, ACA, ACCA, or equivalent.
• Experience with physical goods, marketplace, stored-value, prepaid, or payments accounting, including landed cost, vendor rebates, customer funds, gift cards, or breakage.
• Experience with UK and European entities, including statutory accounts, VAT, or other local compliance requirements.
• NetSuite experience in a high-volume environment, ideally including SuiteBilling and integration-driven transactions.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive salary with generous stock options
• 401(k) with employer match
• Medical, dental & vision insurance, including mental health support and fast access to care
• Flexible PTO that increases the longer you’re with us, plus extra flexibility for life’s unexpected moments
• Collaborative culture with innovative, fun, and ambitious people
• US Salary: $170,000—$200,000 USD

Final offers are determined by a combination of experience, skills, and role fit, and may vary from the listed range.

Location

New York, NY, USA (or remote, US East Coast)