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Assistant Controller leading multi-entity accounting and reporting for COOL’s AI-powered advertising platform. Strengthening controls, automation, forecasting, and scalable finance systems.
Responsibilities:
- Lead day-to-day accounting operations and support timely and accurate monthly, quarterly, and annual close
- Prepare and review consolidated financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP
- Oversee accounting across multiple legal entities, business units, and currencies
- Manage multi-entity consolidation and foreign currency accounting, including transaction remeasurement, balance sheet translation, intercompany activity, and related foreign exchange gains and losses
- Oversee and review balance sheet reconciliations, journal entries, accruals, and other close activities
- Oversee revenue recognition, accounts receivable, accounts payable, fixed assets, prepaid expenses, and other core accounting functions
- Support accounting treatment and documentation for new, unusual, or complex business transactions
- Maintain and improve the chart of accounts, accounting policies, close procedures, and financial reporting processes
- Support annual audit and tax activities and work with external auditors, tax professionals, and other advisors
- Help maintain and strengthen the internal control environment
- Ensure accurate, consistent, documented, and timely financial reporting
- Provide day-to-day leadership, coaching, and development to accounting and finance team members
- Establish ownership, accountability, and performance expectations
- Review team members' work while working directly in the details when necessary
- Partner with the CFO on budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning
- Support FP&A analyses, budget-to-actual reporting, variance analysis, revenue and margin analysis, and operating expense management
- Develop, maintain, and monitor key financial and operating metrics
- Translate financial results into insights for senior leadership
- Identify financial trends, risks, and opportunities and communicate findings to the CFO
- Support scenario modeling and strategic and operational business analyses
- Continuously improve financial processes, systems, automation, and reporting
- Support finance infrastructure for increasing transaction volume, geographic expansion, new products, and organizational growth
- Identify opportunities to reduce manual processes, improve data quality, strengthen controls, and increase efficiency
- Evaluate AI-enabled tools and automation for finance and accounting
- Participate in or lead ERP implementation, optimization, integration, and enhancement projects
- Partner with internal teams and external providers on financial system architecture, data flows, and integrations
- Improve availability, consistency, and reliability of financial and operational data
- Help establish scalable financial policies and procedures
- Report to the CFO
Requirements:
- 7–10+ years of progressive accounting and finance experience, including meaningful experience in a senior accounting, accounting manager, or Assistant Controller-level role
- CPA preferred
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
- Demonstrated experience with multi-entity consolidation and foreign currency accounting
- Experience working in a startup, high-growth, or similarly fast-paced environment
- Proven experience leading, developing, and managing accounting or finance team members
- Experience managing or playing a significant leadership role in the monthly close and consolidated financial reporting process
- Strong understanding of financial controls, audit requirements, and accounting policies
- Ability to support and contribute to FP&A, financial metrics, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis
- Strong Excel, financial systems, and data-analysis capabilities
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain financial concepts to both financial and non-financial stakeholders
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable managing multiple priorities and deadlines
- Demonstrated ability to identify problems, develop practical solutions, and drive projects through completion
- A hands-on mindset and willingness to work directly in the details when necessary
- Experience with multi-entity consolidations, intercompany accounting, FX remeasurement and translation, and international operations
- Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP and demonstrated technical accounting capabilities
- Proven ability to lead, coach, develop, and hold accounting team members accountable
- Ability to understand variance analysis, margins, forecasts, KPIs, and underlying business drivers
- Strong ERP capabilities and willingness to use automation, integrations, data tools, and AI to improve Finance
- Must be able to work primarily between the hours of 9:30 AM - 6:30 PM ET
- Must have a player/coach mentality, willing to both execute and lead
- Ability to juggle multiple projects concurrently and set and meet deadlines
- Skilled at receiving and providing direct feedback
- Collaborative mindset and great teamwork skills
- Entrepreneurial and adaptable; great learning skills
- Curious, research-minded, data-informed
- Able to search for possible solutions and apply them
- Creative confidence
- Proactive communicator
- A sense of humour and a love of online culture
- Thrives in a start-up culture
Benefits:
- Competitive Salary
- Annual Performance Bonus
- Paid Time Off
- Flexible work schedule
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