Controller
Remote, U.SFull-TimeSenior
Salary230,000 - 275,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5–9 years of experience
- Required Skills
- NetSuiteQuickBooks
Requirements
- CPA required
- 5–9 years of experience
- Big 4 Controller or Senior Manager at a VC-backed SaaS company
- ASC 606 depth — must have personally built or owned rev-rec policy for a SaaS company with usage-based or consumption revenue
- First audit experience — either taken a company through its first audit or managed the annual audit process at a Series B/C company
- Comfortable as the primary counterparty to the auditors
- NetSuite experience — prior implementation or heavy operating experience required
- Startup mentality — comfortable building the close process from scratch, writing the accounting policies, and doing the reconciliations themselves
Responsibilities
- Monthly and quarterly close (full ownership — journal entries, reconciliations, flux analysis)
- Revenue recognition policy and execution under ASC 606, including consumption/usage contracts, minimum commits, credit structures, and bundled offerings
- Sales tax compliance: nexus study, Anrok/Avalara implementation, historical VDA process, ongoing accruals
- Deferred revenue waterfall and RPO reporting
- Audit relationship and annual audit execution (first audit likely FY2026 or FY2027)
- Tax filings (federal, state income; R&D credit; 1099s) — managing external preparers
- Equity accounting: ASC 718 stock comp expense, 409A coordination, option grant journal entries
- Lease accounting: ASC 842 assessment on cloud infrastructure commitments (AWS/GCP CUDs that may qualify as embedded leases)
- Billing system integrity: NetSuite/QuickBooks↔Metronome/Stripe reconciliation; ensuring recognized revenue ties to invoiced and collected amounts
- Internal controls: designing and documenting controls sufficient for a first audit and eventual SOC 1/SOC 2 readiness
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