Corporate Accounting Lead
FluidStack — San Francisco, California, United States · In-Person · Mid
Role description
Role Overview
The Corporate Accounting Lead will own the global monthly and quarterly close for payroll and benefits, accounts payable, and operating expenses, partnering with FP&A, Revenue Ops, Financial Reporting, Tax, Treasury, IT, Sales Ops, and Global Workplace Services to close accurately and on time under US GAAP. They will also run the accounting stack in NetSuite, VisualLease, Zip, Navan, and Brex, keeping payroll and expense data clean and audit-ready as transaction volume scales.
What You Will Do
The Corporate Accounting Lead will write and defend accounting memos on ambiguous transactions, lead and mentor the corporate accounting team and the offshore shared services team, build the automation and AI roadmap that reshapes the close as the company scales, and own SOX and internal controls readiness.
Why It Might Be a Fit
The ideal candidate has led or been a senior driver of a global monthly and quarterly close at a high-growth public or pre-IPO software or technology company, and has compressed close timelines without sacrificing accuracy.
Requirements
- Led or been a senior driver of a global monthly and quarterly close at a high-growth public or pre-IPO software or technology company
- Compressed close timelines without sacrificing accuracy
- Operated within a broader CAO organization beyond just the accounting function
- Written accounting memos that resolve ambiguous, judgment-heavy transactions and stood behind those conclusions with external auditors
- Run a close that holds up under SOX and Big 4 external audit requirements, with the documentation and controls to prove it
- Used AI or automation to cut manual work out of an accounting process, and can point to what changed as a result
- Managed up and down at once: aligning executives on accounting positions while mentoring a team, including an offshore shared services team
- Hands-on experience with NetSuite, VisualLease, Zip, Navan, or Brex specifically
- SEC reporting exposure at a public company
- CPA license
Benefits
- Pay equity and transparency