Financial Controller; Austin

Position: Financial Controller (Austin, United States)
Lum Apps is now more than just an Employee Experience Platform - it is an AI-powered Employee Hub that supports companies in their digital transformation of communication, collaboration, and engagement with their customers, partners, and above all their employees.

Our platform is a proven leader in this dynamic market with a truly unique vision and product. It has been deployed by Fortune 500 clients around the world and is delivering meaningful business benefits. Lum Apps is identified as a leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Intranet Packaged Solutions as well as in Intranets Forrester Wave, and regularly selected for the French Tech Next
40/120 program.

In 2025, Lum Apps strengthened its leadership position by partnering with Beekeeper, a pioneer in frontline employee experience solutions. This strategic collaboration expands our reach and impact across all types of workers - from HQ to the frontline.

Our mission:
To make people feel that they belong and have a purpose.

To create an environment where all employees are engaged and work together towards the same goal. Over 700 leading companies trust our solution to:

Improve the productivity of their teams with our AI-powered Collaborative Experience Platform integrated with both Google and Microsoft collaborative suites,

Transform employees into real ambassadors of their company,

Make employees more efficient and better connected to their peers and relevant information, regardless of their location, with the tools and information they need at their fingertips,

Help companies reduce turnover, accelerate employee onboarding, better collaborate and share knowledge, and even improve their customer experiences.

With a team of over 600 Lumies spread across 11 offices (Lyon, Paris, Lille, Sophia Antipolis, London, Barcelona, Hamburg, Austin, Tokyo, Zurich, Krakow), we support large enterprises all around the world. Over the past year, we have been driving an ambitious phase in our journey under the impulse of our new shareholder Bridgepoint, aimed at propelling us to become the clear leader in our market and shine worldwide in our industry.

We are looking for individuals who are excited to actively participate in this transformation.

If these core values sound like you: "be bold, do amazing things", "say what you mean, do what you say", "one team, same mission", "always be evolving": apply now!


* Team*

Reporting directly to the Director of Accounting, Consolidation, Tax & Treasury in Europe, the Financial Controller is a high-impact, individual contributor role designed for a "Super IC." You will be the credible face of Finance for our US operations, responsible for building the infrastructure that allows us to scale our North American footprint with rigour and efficiency.

This isn't a "maintenance" role. You are joining at a pivotal moment following a private equity backed merger to consolidate and institutionalize our US financial operations. You will have total ownership over US accounting, statutory reporting, and tax compliance, while playing a key role in our global ERP & Finance tech-stack transformation.


* Missions*

• Financial Operations & Reporting: Oversee all US financial operations including managing statutory reporting & local filings with our local accounting firms along with US GAAP technical accounting and reconciliations between US GAAP and IFRS.
• Global Collaboration: Act as the primary liaison between the US businesses and our European Accounting and Controlling teams in France, Poland and Switzerland. You will participate in the global close and shareholder reporting and be the local subject matter expert on US issues.
• Audit & Control: Manage the US portion of the global audit, ensuring all local documentation is robust and meets scrutiny, and lead adoption of new controls and process improvements as we scale up our Finance processes globally.
• Systems & Projects: Serve as the US lead for our planned ERP implementation along with other finance tools, ensuring our US localization requirements are represented and processes flow seamlessly into the global reporting engine.
• Tax Strategic Ownership: Own the end-to-end US Sales Tax project. Working…