Global Controller

About the Role

We're hiring a Global Controller to lead and scale our accounting and financial operations organization as we continue to grow a global business across SaaS, payments, multiple entities, and international operations.

Reporting to the CFO, you'll lead the accounting function end-to-end, providing strategic leadership across close, financial reporting, audit, controls, tax, billing, collections, payroll, and finance operations. You'll inherit a strong foundation including clean audits, an established team, and a reliable close. You will help evolve the function to support the company's next phase of growth.

This is an opportunity for an experienced accounting leader who has successfully scaled a controllership through increasing complexity. You're comfortable leading experienced teams, improving operating rhythms, and ensuring the organization is prepared for continued growth, strategic transactions, or an eventual exit.

This is a remote role based in the United States.

Your Impact

Scale and Lead Global Accounting Organization

• Lead and continue to mature the accounting organization, ensuring it can support a larger, more complex global business while maintaining accuracy, strong controls, and predictable execution.
• Oversee all aspects of the accounting function, including: monthly close and financial reporting, global consolidations and multi-entity accounting, internal controls, compliance, and external audits, tax operations and external advisor relationships, billing, collections, accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, and related financial operations
• You'll be accountable for delivering timely, accurate financial reporting while continuously improving the efficiency and predictability of the accounting organization.
• Maintain the controls, documentation, and processes that keep the organization ready for financing, acquisitions, and other strategic transactions as the business scales.

Evolve for Multiple Business Models

• You understand the operational and accounting complexities of recurring revenue, payment settlements, reconciliation, money movement, processing fees, reserves, and financial controls. While you won't be expected to perform the technical accounting yourself, you'll lead teams with the expertise to execute at a high level as payment volume and business complexity continue to grow.

Improve Operational Excellence

• Continue improving the accounting operating model by creating scalable processes, clear ownership, meaningful metrics, and strong cross-functional partnerships.
• You'll work closely with RevOps, Finance Systems, FP&A, and Strategic Finance to ensure accounting produces timely, reliable financial information that supports business decisions.

Drive Systems and Automation

• Partner with Finance Systems team to improve workflows, automation, data quality, and AI-enabled processes that reduce manual effort, strengthen controls, and improve visibility across the organization.

Build and Develop the Team

• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing accounting organization.
• You'll create clear priorities, establish effective operating rhythms, strengthen accountability, and ensure the team has the structure and capabilities needed to support continued company growth.

Your Experience

• CPA required.
• 7+ years of experience leading and scaling a controllership or accounting organization within a high-growth technology company.
• Experience supporting businesses with multiple revenue streams, including both SaaS and payments.
• Proven success leading accounting teams across financial reporting, close, audit, controls, tax, payroll, billing, collections, and finance operations.
• Experience operating in multi-entity and multi-currency environments.
• Demonstrated ability to improve the scalability, efficiency, and predictability of accounting operations while maintaining strong financial controls.
• Strong executive communication skills with the judgment and confidence to serve as a trusted partner to the CFO.
• Experience developing leaders, building high-performing teams, and creating accountability across the accounting organization.
• Comfortable leveraging systems, automation, data, and AI to improve accounting operations.