Controller, Accounting, Financial Reporting

Title
Controller

Reports To
Head of Delivery

Function
Service Delivery

Location
Remote

Employment Type
W-2, Full-Time with Benefits

Most Controller openings ask you to run a clean close. This one asks you to help rebuild what "close" even means. We're hiring Controllers who've owned the monthly close end-to-end and look at the manual parts with an instinct to automate, not accept. In our pursuit of achieving a real-time continuous close, we have brought down our close from T+10 to T+2.

We’re hiring Controllers that can improve this further. If you've spent your career running closes and the slow parts still bother you — keep reading.

We're not hiring a Controller who can also work with AI tools. We're hiring a builder who can also run a clean, audit-ready monthly close. That distinction is the most important thing to understand about this role.

The Controller owns the monthly close across a portfolio of growth-stage clients as part of a pod. You partner daily with the CFO Partner on your pod — they own the client relationship, you own the books behind it — and you report to our Head of Delivery. You work alongside peer Controllers across the company.

This is Controller work done at a different scale. Multiple clients, AI-native tooling that is still being built, and a standard that clients experience as excellent. You are not running the same close you've always run. You are shaping what the next close looks like — for your pod and for every pod that comes after.

You own the accuracy, timeliness, and integrity of the monthly close across your client portfolio. Accruals, reconciliations, journal entries, and ledger health are your seat. Close runs on schedule; when something is off, you find it before the CFO Partner or the client does.

You deliver GAAP-accurate financial statements. Revenue recognition where it matters, accounting memos when the treatment is non-obvious, and audit readiness as a default posture rather than an annual scramble. You can defend your reasoning cleanly in a review and explain it to a founder without hiding behind jargon.

You are not just a consumer of Till's augmented delivery model — you help build it. You identify where the close is still slow, manual, or inconsistent and partner with our engineering team to design the next layer of automation. You bring a Controller's eye for what should be automated, what should stay human, and where AI can compress a five-day close to a two-day one.

You ship feedback, not complaints. You prototype workflows, document what works, and raise the bar for what every pod at Till can deliver.

You work in partnership with the CFO Partner on your pod. The CFO Partner owns the client relationship; you own the books behind it. You surface accounting issues that need client attention early, with a recommendation, and without drama. When the moment calls for you to speak directly to a client, you communicate clearly and confidently.

ERP fluency — Net Suite, Sage, or equivalent production ERP, with awareness of Quick Books. Process documentation that actually works, where someone else can pick it up and run it. What you build for one client gets reusable across pods. You treat process debt as real debt.

• Close runs on schedule and on spec across your client portfolio — accurate, audit-ready, trusted by your CFO Partner and by your clients.
• Accounting issues surface early, with recommendations — no surprises for your pod or for leadership.
• Books are audit-ready as a default state, not a once-a-year project.
• AI-native tools are integrated into daily close practice — not experimentation, but operating rhythm.
• At least one close, reconciliation, or reporting improvement you identified and shipped has been adopted by another pod at Till.
• Pod collaboration is strong; you and the CFO Partner on your pod work in rhythm, not in series.
• You have an active voice in how the delivery function operates — a peer who makes the whole team better, not just your own pod.