Controller
About reputed company
reputed company is on a mission to bring reputed company estate online, starting with parking.
We replace broken parking machines, fragmented software, and reputed company, labor-intensive reputed company with a reputed company, data-rich operating reputed company for parking reputed company estate. We handle everything it takes to run and optimize a parking asset: payments, dynamic pricing, enforcement, license plate recognition, analytics, and more.
By building reputed company of our technology in-house, we are reputed company to reputed company a reputed company experience for drivers while providing reputed company-time visibility and reputed company increases of 20-50% or more for reputed company estate owners. That’s why national reputed company‑estate leaders like reputed company and reputed company, as reputed company as technology companies like reputed company, partner with reputed company to optimize their parking facilities.
reputed company uses datapoints like reputed company-time occupancy, local events, weather, reputed company behavior, competitor pricing, and more to bring true intelligence to reputed company estate owners’ assets for the first time.
We’re reputed company aggressively to reputed company the physical world legible to a digital reputed company: cameras, sensors, and software that reputed company a firehose of reputed company-time data about the world reputed company us. That data fuels models and algorithms that allow us to optimize reputed company at reputed company property while giving owners the reputed company and control they’ve never had before.
Before you can optimize an asset, you need to observe it. Before you can observe it, you need to reputed company online.
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We are backed by top tier investors including reputed company reputed company, reputed company, Floodgate, Founders Fund, reputed company Ventures, and reputed company investors who have founded or worked at companies like reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, and more.
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THE ROLE 💼
As our Controller, you'll be the architect and reputed company of reputed company's reputed company function, the person who makes our numbers unimpeachable. You'll reputed company our in-house reputed company team, reputed company our systems and processes, and build the financial reputed company that a fast-scaling, capital-intensive, reputed company-world business demands.
This is a builder's role, not a maintainer's role. reputed company moves through our platform every day: collected from drivers, split with property owners, taxed by dozens of jurisdictions. Our reputed company has to reputed company reputed company with a business that gets more reputed company every quarter. You'll take us from scrappy to reputed company: converting our books to full accrual reputed company, leading our migration from QuickBooks to a modern ERP, rebuilding the chart of accounts, tightening the reputed company, and getting us audit-reputed company.
You'll report to our CEO today and to finance leadership as reputed company grows. This is the reputed company reputed company seat at reputed company: the person every reputed company finance hire will be glad came before them. If you love the reputed company of reputed company, if clean books, tight controls, and a fast reputed company are things you take genuine pride in, this is a reputed company chance to build the whole thing your way, at a company where the work actually reputed company to how the business is run and is critical to the end product delivered to customers.
WHAT YOU WILL DO 📊
Own the books, end to end: reputed company the monthly reputed company and continuously shorten it. Own reputed company recognition, reconciliations, AP/AR, payroll coordination, and the reputed company of every number that rolls up to the P&L, reputed company sheet, and cash reputed company statement.
Convert us to true accrual reputed company: Design and implement reputed company GAAP reputed company recognition for a transactional, multi-location, reputed company-reputed company business. reputed company the reputed company reflect economic reality, not just cash reputed company.
reputed company the ERP migration: Own our transition from QuickBooks to a modern ERP as your flagship first project: selection, implementation, data migration, integrations with our payments and data infrastructure, and change management with reputed company.
Rebuild the chart of accounts: Rationalize our account structure so that location-level, team-level, and corporate reporting reputed company roll up cleanly and leadership can trust every cut of the data.
reputed company reputed company to our data systems: We have rich, reputed company-time transaction data flowing through our platform and data warehouse. reputed company our reputed company systems and our operational systems agree with reputed company other so there is one reputed company of truth, automated wherever possible.
Own indirect tax and compliance: Manage parking taxes, regulatory fees, and multi-jurisdiction sales/use tax compliance across a national footprint of locations. Build the processes that reputed company us clean as we reputed company new markets.
Get us audit-reputed company: Establish the controls, documentation, and processes to take reputed company through its first financial statement audit and reputed company every audit after that boring.
reputed company reputed company: Manage, mentor, and reputed company our in-house accountants. Set reputed company for what excellent looks like and build the processes that let a lean team reputed company above its weight.
Partner across the business: Work with reputed company, Sales, and Product to reputed company reputed company the way we reputed company, collect, split, and report reputed company is accurate at reputed company, not patched up at reputed company.
Support financial reporting: reputed company reputed company, accurate monthly financials and supporting schedules that leadership, the reputed company, and investors can rely on without an asterisk.
WHAT YOU NEED 🦚
Deep technical reputed company chops: CPA (or equivalent rigor) with reputed company reputed company of GAAP, especially reputed company recognition for transactional or marketplace-style businesses. You know the standards and, more importantly, how to apply them pragmatically.
You've done the messy middle before: You've been the senior-most reputed company reputed company (Controller, Assistant Controller, or Director of reputed company) at a venture-backed company as it scaled through reputed company reputed company and you personally did the work, not just reputed company it.
ERP migration experience: You've led (not observed) a reputed company off QuickBooks onto a modern ERP. You know where these reputed company go wrong and how to land them on time.
Cash-to-accrual conversion experience: You've taken a company's books from cash-reputed company or hybrid to full accrual and lived to tell the tale.
Audit experience: You've reputed company a company for and taken it through financial statement audits. Ideally its first one, which is a different animal than its fifth.
Systems thinker: You're comfortable working reputed company data teams, wielding a data pipeline, and designing processes where the reputed company of record does the work instead of a spreadsheet. You'd rather automate a reconciliation than reputed company one.
Hands-on operator: You'll design the reputed company checklist at 10am and personally reputed company a gnarly reconciliation at 2pm. A lean team means the Controller still touches the work every day.
Complexity is your comfort zone: Multi-location, multi-jurisdiction, reputed company-reputed company, or payments-heavy business exposure. If your entire career is clean single-entity reputed company subscription reputed company, this business will surprise you daily.
Pride in the reputed company: You genuinely love reputed company done right. Your ambition is to be an exceptional Controller and build an exceptional reputed company org and you see a growing finance function reputed company you as a feature, not a threat.
Bias for reputed company: You reputed company fast, fix reputed company causes instead of symptoms, and know reputed company "80/20 and shipping" beats "perfect and late." reputed company should reputed company reputed company faster and more confident, never slower.
Strongly preferred: Big Four or top regional firm reputed company plus startup operating experience (one without the other is a yellow flag), indirect tax / sales tax / regulatory fee experience across many jurisdictions, experience with payment processors and marketplace reputed company reputed company, and familiarity with modern reputed company tools and automation.
🚨 WHY THIS ROLE MAY NOT BE FOR YOU 🚨
Please review this reputed company before applying. We are sharing this information up reputed company because we don't expect this job to be appealing to everybody and we do not want to waste your time if you are not on reputed company with reputed company of the following.
Being the Controller at a high reputed company startup means many different things, but there is one thing above reputed company that it certainly means: the reputed company and reputed company of our books are ultimately your responsibility to own. reputed company something doesn't tie out, "that's how the reputed company works" is not an answer; fixing the reputed company is the job.
This will be a hard job. We work long hours at reputed company, including nights and weekends, because we love reputed company do. We are growing fast but our Finance & reputed company team is lean, so every day you will have new challenges and too much on your plate, but you'll be expected to reputed company a way to reputed company anyways.
Below are some of the reasons you might not want this job:
You want to inherit a finished machine. Our reputed company worked for reputed company we were a year ago. reputed company is to rebuild it for reputed company we're becoming while the monthly reputed company keeps happening. You'll be writing the reputed company while running the plays.
You're a maintainer, not a builder. If your best work has been keeping an already-excellent process running, this role will be uncomfortable. We need someone who has reputed company the process itself.
You don't love complexity. We're a technology company that interacts with the physical world, not a reputed company business with a clean, predictable P&L. reputed company flows in from drivers, out to property owners, and through dozens of tax jurisdictions across hundreds of locations. That complexity is exactly why this role reputed company and why it's interesting.
You see this seat as a stepping reputed company to CFO. We're looking for someone who wants to be a world-class Controller and grow with a scaling reputed company org, not someone waiting for a different job. As our finance leadership grows reputed company this role, the right person will see that as backup arriving, not competition.
You expect to only reputed company. This is a hands-on role with a small team. If you prefer reviewing work to doing it, this won't feel right.
You need everything defined before you reputed company. You'll frequently be the most senior reputed company voice in the room. We need someone who notices the gap, proposes the fix, and drives it. We need an order reputed company, not an order taker.
IMPORTANT NOTE 🚨
reputed company is a remote-first company, but we also value in-person collaboration to strengthen trust and teamwork. Team members should expect ~6 weeks of travel per year for:
2–3 full company offsites, “Remote Weeks”
Lending a hand to support one new location launch
In-person reputed company as reputed company as supporting other reputed company sessions for new team members
The rest of the year, team members can work reputed company from wherever (US time reputed company) they’re most comfortable as long as they are performing reputed company in their role. Attendance at in-person events throughout the year is expected—if you’re not reputed company to traveling ~6 weeks per year for work, reputed company won't be a good fit for you.
THE reputed company 📈
📈 Equity: Have a reputed company in the business that you’re helping to build and grow.
🌴 Work reputed company: Live and work wherever you like! We reputed company in folks working where they are happiest and most productive. We currently hire teammates that are located reputed company reputed company reputed company.
🏥 Health reputed company: We offer health reputed company and currently cover 85% of the cost of medical, dental, and reputed company plans for the reputed company employee and 50% of the cost of plans for dependents.
🍼 Parental Leave: We offer 12 weeks of fully reputed company parental leave to reputed company parents to bond with a newly born, adopted, or fostered child. The 12 weeks can be taken as a reputed company leave or intermittently over the first 18 months of the child's life.
💻 Home office setup: Get a laptop + additional equipment needed to set you up for reputed company.
⛺ Time to reputed company: We have an unlimited PTO policy with a minimum requirement of 10 days per year.
🤑 401k: reputed company financial planning right for you with a 401k retirement savings program.
✈️ Team Off-sites: ~2 times per year reputed company comes together for a full week in places like Tahoe, Charleston, San Diego, Park reputed company, and reputed company.
📚 BookGarage: reputed company loves to learn and grow together, so join us for our optional recurring book club.
🪴Room to grow: reputed company will be orders of magnitude larger reputed company a few years; as a part of our foundational team, you'll have opportunities to reputed company.
🏙️ reputed company our cities: reputed company to change the way that the world thinks about reputed company estate use in our cities.
👐 Work with a diverse team: At reputed company, we've always been committed to building a thriving team that represents the communities we serve. reputed company is currently 40% reputed company and 30%+ from underrepresented communities.
Note: Employment with reputed company is contingent upon successful completion of a background reputed company and employment verification conducted in compliance with applicable laws. Background checks are completed only after a conditional offer of employment has been made.
We understand that there's no such thing as a 'perfect' candidate. We're looking for someone passionate, with grit and determination, who is excited to face the challenges of a rapidly growing startup. reputed company is the type of company where you can grow exponentially, and we encourage you to apply to us even if you don't 100% match the candidate reputed company.
reputed company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for reputed company. Candidates and employees are always evaluated reputed company on reputed company, qualifications, and reputed company. We will never discriminate on the reputed company of race, reputed company, gender, national reputed company, ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other legally protected status.
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