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Controller

Permanent contract
Salary: Not specified
Fully-remote
Experience: > 7 years

Gorgias
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About this Role

  • You will apply your knowledge in accounting to perform account reconciliations, own month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closes, accounts payable, and analysis on financial information. You will also lead the management of the day-to-day administrative functions of the accounting team.
  • You will have the opportunities to work closely with the executive, finance, and legal teams, to ensure all bookkeeping, tax, regulatory and legal requirements are met.

What You’ll Do

  • Build our global accounting and tax processes and drive ongoing improvements, focusing on compliance, efficiency, and automation.
  • Clear accountability and ownership over our Netsuite General Ledger system and accuracy of monthly, quarterly and annual financial inputs/outputs - including some elements of reporting and variance analysis to plans and prior year.
  • Strong financial and accounting background, including an understanding of profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow management, and general finance and budgeting, including knowledge of IFRS and GAAP.
  • Run our financial audits and maintain close relationships with our audit partners to ensure a smooth process.
  • Conduct ad-hoc analyses, prepare financial statements and conduct reconciliations to drive strategic decision-making.
  • Establish and implement company-wide accounting policies.
  • Assist in documenting internal processes/controls as well as developing improvements as appropriate.

Preferred experience

Who You Are

  • 8+ years of relevant experience. SaaS finance, and accounting preferred.
  • Have built Accounting teams through the implementation of systems, processes, internal controls, and policies.
  • Excellent verbal and written skills to succinctly convey information to executive leadership.
  • Ability to mentor and lead strong teams.
  • A degree in accounting from a four-year college and a CPA.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office and G Suite; Advanced Excel skills required.
  • Expert with Netsuite, AP, AR aging, revenue recognition, and bank reconciliations.
  • Audit experience not required but highly desired.

Nice to have

  • A combination of experience working in public accounting and at high-growth, international SaaS companies.
  • Strong experience in SaaS accounting, Auditing, SaaS metrics/reporting & SaaS revenue recognition.

Perks & Benefits:

  • 🏖️ 4-week vacation
  • 🤕 Paid sick leave
  • 🍽️ Personal credit card to buy lunches
  • 🏥 Health insurance with up to 100% of premiums paid for employees - Blue Shield & Kaiser (CA only) explore our plans
  • 👵🏼 Retirement: Gorgias contributes to your 401k 100% of the first 3% of deferred W-2 income, 50% of the next 2% of deferred W-2 income.
  • 💆🏻‍♀️ Get up to $700 to set up your workstation at home (working from home should feel breezy)
  • 📚 Get up to $2000 of learning material per year (includes books, courses, training sessions that are easily identified and linked with your job scope. This also covers individual coaching!)
  • 🥰 Every quarter, we organize an online company-wide summit to discuss where we’re going and strengthen social bonds. Once per year we organize offsite team retreats and company retreats! (Here is the photo album from our last company retreat in Mexico in 2022, when we were a total of 200 people!)

Why join us?
🚀 We’re among the fastest-growing startups in the eCommerce ecosystem
🦄 We’ve built an extremely efficient go-to-market engine
🥇 Work with a talented team you’ll learn a lot from
🙏 Join a company where automation and good & clean data are core beliefs shared by all
🎥 Here is an interview with one of our team member’s experiences from our most recent company retreat to Cancun!

More cool things to know about Gorgias… 😁

Gorgias ensures equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, national origin, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, genetic information, citizenship status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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