Assistant Controller

What You'll Do

As our first Accounting Leader, you'll be the steward of the numbers the company runs on: books that close fast and clean, revenue that's recognized the right way, and a finance foundation that investors, auditors and our own team can trust.

• Own accounting end-to-end, including the monthly close, the general ledger, and financial reporting across all Finch entities.
• Work hands-on as a player-coach: close the books, write the memos and build the reconciliations yourself while laying the foundation for a growing team.
• Own revenue recognition under ASC 606, and design how GAAP applies to an AI-native services business that sells outcomes rather than seats or hours (performance obligations, variable consideration, timing of recognition).
• Manage a new type multi-entity with an Managed Services Organization (MSO structure), including intercompany accounting, consolidations, and entity-level compliance.
• Drive Finch to an audit-ready state and own the audit end to end: build the controls, and documentation, and be the primary point of contact for our external auditors.
• Bring our accounting systems to the next level, leveraging AI and automation so a small team can do the work of a much larger one.
• Partner with Sales, Legal and Finance on contracting terms, billing, the revenue model and core investor reporting.

You’ll Likely Thrive If You Have

• 10+ years in accounting, including having built and led the accounting function at a high-growth startup or scale-up. CPA preferred.
• Deep background in revenue accounting: you've owned ASC 606 for a complex model and can point to the policies and memos you wrote.
• You can take GAAP revenue recognition and apply it to new business models, such as outcome-based, usage-based or services pricing, and defend your judgment.
• You've managed accounting across companies with multiple entities, including intercompany, consolidations and compliance.
• You've taken a company from messy books to audit-ready and run a financial statement audit end to end, as the main point of contact for the auditors.
• You still do the work hands-on: you close the books, reconcile, and write the technical memos yourself.
• You've built close and control processes and can point to the before and after (days to close, audit adjustments, findings).
• You use AI and automation in your accounting work today and have a view on where they help.

It’s a Plus If You Have

• Big 4 or national audit firm experience, ideally with technology or services clients.
• Experience preparing for a first audit or a SOC 1 / SOX-readiness program.
• Experience at an AI-native company, or at a company through both early stage and scale.
• Familiarity with revenue in legal services or other regulated industries.
• Experience with modern accounting stacks (e.g., NetSuite, Rillet, Campfire) and billing systems.

We run a human, efficient process. That generally includes

• Intro: An initial conversation about your background, motivation, and the role.
• Interview: A structured exercise to understand your approach to scaling an end-to-end hiring engine.
• Onsite: A visit to our NYC office to meet the team, explore the work together, and have lunch.