Controller

Overview

This role is for a hands-on accounting leader responsible for the day-to-day accounting function, including monthly close, consolidated US GAAP financial reporting, audits, controls, and technical accounting. The position reports to the CFO and works across a complex, international business model spanning multiple entities and currencies.

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

Responsibilities

• Own 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.
• Ensure balance sheet integrity by properly reconciling, supporting, and reviewing material accounts.
• Lead technical accounting analysis for key areas including revenue recognition, principal versus agent judgments, customer wallet balances and breakage, landed cost, and vendor rebates; recommend positions to the CFO and ensure 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 with leaders and teams across the business on projects and finance-involved initiatives, providing accounting and commercial perspective and driving finance 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 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: 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 areas such as 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

US Salary: $170,000—$200,000 USD

Compensation is based on standardized salary ranges by role, level, and location, benchmarked against similar-sized companies. 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)