Salary
💰 $160,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
Open Source
About the role
- Comet is building the development platform for teams who want to ship robust, reliable, and responsible AI applications; Opik, our open source LLM evaluation framework, has quickly become one of the most popular tools in the space; Our experiment management platform is used by data scientists at companies like Uber, Netflix, and Etsy; Tens of thousands of researchers, engineers, academics, and hobbyists use Comet every day to build the future of AI.\n
- This is an opportunity to join a fast growing startup as the first Financial Controller for a global high growth tech startup; This newly created role will own the company’s financial performance and direct our accounting operations.\n
- Requirements: Oversee all global accounting activities worldwide - accounts, ledgers and reporting systems ensuring compliance with US GAAP standards and regulatory requirements\n
- Review all units monthly and quarterly reporting packages and provide timely feedback to the units\n
- Review accruals for month end close, liaising with the various department heads and business owners to collect the necessary information for ensuring financial accuracy\n
- Prepare the monthly consolidation including the consolidated schedules and reconciliations\n
- Responsible for commission and variable compensation calculations, accruals, and accounting in accordance with ASC606\n
- Continually develop, expand and improve month end close process and financial reporting procedures and help drive the reduction of the close timeline towards T+5 by assessing and streamlining close-related activities\n
- Prepare the monthly revenue file, including the deferred revenue schedules, roll forward, SAAS metrics and related analyses\n
- Review customers contracts to identify financial risks and ensure appropriate accounting treatment\n
- Implement and maintain all aspects of ASC 606 compliance and work closely with the various team members to ensure revenue recognition process in accordance with ASC 606.\n
- Work closely with FP& amp;A to investigate and document fluctuations in budget vs. actual variance analysis\n
- Participate in the annual budgeting and rolling forecast processes\n
- Hire and train a world class accounting team that will continue to grow as the Company scales\n
- Manage and comply with local, state, and federal reporting requirements, including sales tax\n
- Manage the annual external audit processes and provide accounting policy memos where required\n
- Responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining all internal financial accounting, controls and policies worldwide\n
- Play a key role in the assessment and implementation of a billing system\n
- Participate in a wide variety of special projects and compile a variety of special reports
Requirements
- CPA with 4 to 6 years of relevant experience - mix of public accounting (Big 4 preferred) and startup experience\n
- Previous finance experience in international technology companies, especially SaaS and software companies that have experienced high growth\n
- Effective communication, people management, and finance/analytical skills\n
- A self starter with high personal integrity, ready to wear multiple hats\n
- Expert experience with relevant tools (eg. accounting systems, Google sheets, Excel, BI tools)