Corporate Controller

About Work While

Work While is on a mission to help workers earn a better living and live better lives. More than 80 million Americans work hourly jobs - often with unpredictable schedules, near-minimum wages, and few benefits - leading to real financial instability. We're fixing that by matching enterprise customers across logistics, food production, retail, hospitality, events, and managed services with a quality hourly workforce, while giving workers stable income and unmatched benefits like next-day pay, free telehealth, and financial services.

Work While is evolving from a high-growth temporary labor marketplace into a comprehensive workforce platform for enterprises with fintech offerings workers. The result is a multi-business-model company with a genuinely complex, interesting financial landscape.

Backed by Khosla Ventures and recognized by the Inc. 5000 for 10x growth, Work While is reshaping the future of work.

This is not a "maintain the books" Controller role. This is a build-it role.

As Corporate Controller, you'll serve as the CFO's right hand in architecting a world-class accounting function from the ground up - one capable of supporting high-volume transaction processing, multi-stream revenue recognition (Marketplace + SaaS + Fintech), and banking-level treasury operations. You'll lead an ERP migration, deploy AI-driven automation, and own the technical accounting for business models that most Controllers never get to work across simultaneously.

If you're a technically deep CPA who wants to do more than close the books - someone who wants to shape financial infrastructure at a venture-backed, mission-driven company - this role is built for you.

• Full-cycle accounting ownership
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  General Ledger (GL), Payroll, Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Order-to-Cash (O2C), and Record-to-Report (R2R)

• Data integrity
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  Partner with Data Science to ensure financial data in the ERP (Net Suite/Intacct) aligns precisely with operational data sources (Big Query, Metabase)

• High-volume payroll
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  Manage complex weekly and daily payroll runs for a nationally dispersed workforce, with distinct treatment for W2 employees (taxes, benefits, with holdings) and 1099 independent contractors

• Month-end & year-end close
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  Own the close calendar, drive down close cycle times, and ensure a clean, audit-ready general ledger at all times

• Revenue Recognition (ASC 606):
  Author technical accounting memos and policy for multiple evolving revenue streams - including "Principal vs. Agent" gross-to-net calculations for marketplace revenue and subscription revenue recognition for the Newday SaaS product

• Fintech & Treasury Accounting
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  Build accounting workflows for Work While Wallet and W2 Early Pay - including daily liquidity management for payroll funding, high-volume card transaction reconciliation (Marqeta, Stripe), and accounting for potential credit losses on worker advances

• Equity & Stock-Based Compensation
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  Manage equity plan administration and ASC 718 accounting

• Multi-jurisdiction Tax Compliance
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  Oversee federal, state, and local tax filings; manage payroll tax nexus across all states where W2 workers operate; address sales tax implications for SaaS products

• Audit leadership
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  Own the external audit relationship end-to-end - drive the first company financial audit, prepare PBC schedules, manage fieldwork, and deliver audited financial statements on time

• Investor & lender reporting
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  Prepare accurate, well-documented financials for board reporting, debt covenant compliance, and future fundraising due diligence

• ERP migration
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  Lead the evaluation and implementation of a scalable ERP upgrade, including integration with billing, payroll, and payments systems

• AI & automation
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  Proactively identify and deploy AI agents for reconciliation, invoice processing, and anomaly detection - reducing manual workload and improving accuracy

• Collections & DSO optimization
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  Strengthen billing and collections processes, managing invoicing nuances across Enterprise and SMB client segments

• Team development
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  Manage and mentor the internal accounting team and oversee the offshore BPO team, ensuring seamless collaboration across time zones

Required Qualifications

• Active CPA license - non-negotiable

• Big 4 accounting firm experience
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  Minimum 4-6 years in audit at a Big 4 firm (Deloitte, PwC, EY, or KPMG), serving public…