Controller, Accounting, Financial Reporting

About the Role

Dorsia is seeking a Controller to transform our accounting function with AI-powered tooling, scalable systems, and real-time financial reporting. The Controller will own accounting operations across month-end close, AP, budgeting, Fin Ops, audit, tax, payroll, and the controls that keep a fast-paced consumer business financially sound.

This is a role for someone meticulous by nature, who will go line by line through budgets and actuals, find what others miss, and treat AI tooling as a core part of the finance function. The right candidate has built and run the accounting function inside a high-growth consumer or marketplace business and understands the complexity of multi-stream revenue recognition.

• Own the general ledger and full month-end close process, driving accuracy and continuously compressing close timelines.
• Manage revenue recognition across memberships, transaction fees, minimum spends, and venue partnerships in accordance with GAAP.
• Oversee accounts payable, accounts receivable, and payment reconciliation across high-volume consumer transactions.
• Deploy AI agents to automate reconciliation, journal entries, and close workflows.
• Establish and document accounting policies, procedures, and a controls framework as the company scales.

• Lead annual audit preparation and serve as primary point of contact for external auditors, maintaining audit-ready books year-round.
• Own tax compliance across federal, state, local, and international jurisdictions, including sales tax obligations across 9+ global destinations.
• Manage payroll operations end to end, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance as headcount scales.
• Build the internal controls, SOX-readiness, and compliance infrastructure required ahead of Series B.
• Use AI tooling to monitor compliance obligations and flag exposure across jurisdictions in real time.

• Conduct line-by-line reviews of budgets and actuals, identifying cost reduction opportunities across every function.
• Own vendor spend management, including contract review, renewal scrutiny, and spend consolidation.
• Partner with FP&A to ensure budgets reflect operational reality and variances are caught and explained immediately.
• Implement AI-driven anomaly detection across spend, flagging irregularities and unbudgeted expenses as they occur.
• Build real-time reporting that gives leadership a precise, current view of cash, burn, and runway.

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Economics, or related field.
• CPA required; MBA is a plus.
• 8+ years of progressive accounting experience, including 3+ years as a Controller or Assistant Controller.
• Direct experience working in a high-growth consumer, marketplace, or payments environment.
• Understanding of complex revenue recognition spanning subscriptions, transaction fees, and multi-party payment flows.
• Deep command of GAAP and hands-on experience across close, audit, tax, and payroll.
• Proven track record of preparing a company for institutional audits and the financial scrutiny of late-stage fundraising.
• Meticulous by nature, with a track record of catching the errors others miss.
• A builder’s mindset towards AI, with demonstrated experience deploying AI agents and automation across close, reconciliation, and reporting workflows.
• Low ego, high ownership, and the communication skills to make complex financials clear to operators across the business.
• Experience in hospitality, luxury consumer, or live events is a strong plus.
• Fluency in Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets, financial modeling tools, and accounting systems (i.e. Net Suite, Quick Books Online, etc.).
• Experience in Brex, Carta, Looker (BI), , and Justworks are a plus.

New York Pay Range: $170,000 – $220,000 USD