Controller
Federato
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Own day-to-day management of Federato’s Accounting operations.
- Own and manage all financial compliance-related functions, including payroll, procurement, billing, collections, tax, treasury, and audit, ensuring adherence to evolving standards.
- Partner cross-functionally with teams like Sales, Customer Success, and RevOps to proactively support contract structure, billing, and revenue processes with clarity and foresight.
- Identify opportunities to streamline finance workflows through tooling or AI-powered solutions, bringing a systems-minded approach to scale.
- Leverage and adapt financial systems such as QBO, Anrok, BILL, and others with openness to exploring new tools or building lightweight internal applications to reduce manual work and increase efficiency.
- Maintain audit readiness and ongoing compliance with evolving US GAAP, tax, and jurisdictional standards, helping ensure financial integrity and operational clarity. Prepare and review financial reports, including statutory filings.
- Contribute to strategic initiatives, including tooling evaluations like Snowflake or Databricks to support thoughtful, data-informed decision-making.
- Foster a culture of curiosity and continuous learning, surfacing insights from customer and transactional data, identifying trends, and collaborating on solutions that help move the business forward.
- Collaborate closely with the VP of Finance and cross-functional teams to drive finance transformation, focusing on improving workflows, implementing systems, and adhering to compliance standards.
Requirements
- Meaningful accounting leadership experience, ideally blending public accounting and in-house operational roles at high-transaction, product-led SaaS companies
- Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP, tax compliance, revenue recognition, and how to apply accounting principles across systems and processes
- Experience documenting accounting policies, maintaining internal controls, and contributing to audit readiness
Benefits
- Total compensation package does include stock options, benefits and additional perks.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
accountingfinancial compliancepayrollprocurementbillingcollectionstaxtreasuryauditfinancial reporting
Soft Skills
leadershipcollaborationstrategic thinkingcuriositycontinuous learningproblem-solvingcommunicationadaptabilityinsight generationworkflow improvement