Controller

About the Role

As our first dedicated accounting hire, you will own how Forus closes the books, reports financials, and builds the systems and controls that strengthen our financial foundation as we scale. The foundation you build is what lets Forus scale its provider network and commercial partnerships on numbers that leadership, auditors, and partners can trust.

You will run the close, own the General Ledger, manage technical accounting, implement controls, and engage directly with auditors and external partners. You will help architect the function itself: advancing our tools, designing the processes, and setting the standards that the team will inherit as we grow. We are a small and nimble finance team, and this role is for someone energized by doing the work and shaping how it gets done.

This is a demanding role, with a high level of autonomy and responsibility. You will be expected to "act like an owner" and commit yourself to Forus' success. If you are low-ego, hungry to learn, and excited about intense, impactful work that drives both company growth and accelerated career progression, we want to hear from you.

If You Join, You Will

• Own core accounting operations end-to-end, including monthly close, GL, AP/AR, payroll, tax, and technical accounting, and set the cadence that delivers accurate, timely financials
• Design and document the controls, policies, and processes of a best-in-class accounting function, building infrastructure the team can inherit as we grow
• Drive technical accounting decisions across revenue recognition, stock-based compensation, multi-entity reporting, and capitalization policies
• Evaluate and implement the tools and systems (ERP, AP/AR, payroll, and adjacent platforms) that scale with the demands of the business
• Partner with Strategic Finance to produce the monthly reporting package, board materials, and investor reporting
• Work with Legal and Operations to structure contracts, pricing, and financial controls that hold up as the business scales

We’re Looking for You If You Have

• 5-10 years of accounting experience, including Big 4 or equivalent audit experience
• Demonstrated experience implementing modern financial systems and ERPs - QuickBooks, NetSuite, Ramp, Bill, Rippling, or similar - with informed opinions about what fits at our stage versus the next one
• Deep working knowledge of US GAAP, financial controls, and technical accounting
• Excellent written and verbal communication: capable of translating complex financial insights into clear narrative
• High NPS with your former teammates
• Bonus: Experience standing up an accounting function from scratch at an early-stage or hyper-scaling company

Additional information

This is a list of ideal qualifications for this position. If you don't meet every single one of them, you should still consider applying! We’re excited to work with people from underrepresented backgrounds, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.

Working with US

Forus is based in New York, with our full team working out of a beautiful and spacious office in SoHo.

We run as a high-trust environment with high autonomy, which requires that everyone is fully competent and operates in line with our principles:

• Do the math. Be rigorous, assume nothing. Break problems down and reason from the ground up. Stay open to changing your mind.
• Resourceful optimism. Assume problems are solvable. Be audacious. Resist false constraints and push beyond the obvious before deciding.
• Spit it out. Speak directly, invite critique, avoid equivocation. We want right answers, not comfortable ones. All killer, no filler.
• Raise the bar. Hold a high standard for your pace and execution, and elevate the performance of the team around you. Mamba mentality.
• Fight for users. Start with users’ realities, not ours. Resist optimizing for internal convenience over user outcomes.

Pay and benefits

We provide competitive compensation with meaningful equity (for full-time employees). Everyone who joins will be a major contributor to our success, and we reflect this through ownership and pay.

We also provide rich benefits to ensure you can focus on creating impact (for full-time employees):

• Fully covered medical, vision, and dental insurance.
• Memberships for One Medical, Talkspace, Teladoc, and Kindbody.
• Unlimited paid time off (PTO) and 16 weeks of parental leave.
• 401K plan setup, FSA option, commuter benefits, and DashPass.
• Lunch at the office every day and Dinner at the office after 6:30 pm.

Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our company’s size and industry, and are one part of the total compensation package that also includes equity, benefits, and other opportunities at Forus (for full-time employees). Individual pay decisions are ultimately based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, geography, and balancing internal equity.