[Hiring] Accounting & Controls Manager @Forum Ventures

Role Description

We’re looking for an Accounting & Controls Manager to own Outlast’s books end-to-end — and grow into our Controller. You’ll run the monthly close, keep the day-to-day transactional engine clean, own inventory accounting for physical metal, manage cash and our credit-facility reporting, and build the control environment a scaling company needs before its first audit, not after. You’ll be the primary point of contact for our external auditors and banks.

This is a hands-on role by design. Some days you’re setting an accounting policy, preparing a borrowing base certificate, or scoping an ERP migration; other days you’re posting a journal entry, chasing a vendor bill, or reconciling a bank feed. No task is beneath the role — but the trajectory is up: as the company roughly doubles in size, this seat becomes the Controller seat, and we want to hire the person who can make that climb.

You’ll report to our VP of Finance & Business Operations and partner with a Finance & Strategy Manager who owns the forecast, you produce the reconciled actuals everything else is built on. Our stack is deeply integrated: QuickBooks Online, Ramp, and our own platform sync invoices and bills automatically, and AI agents handle a growing share of the transactional work. You’ll supervise and improve that machine, not fight it.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of progressive accounting experience, including full ownership of a monthly close — calendar, entries, reconciliations, and the deadline.
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance required; CPA strongly preferred.
• Accruals, cutoffs, revenue recognition, inventory/COGS accounting, and internal controls you can apply without looking them up, and explain to a non-accountant.
• Equally credible posting a journal entry and writing the policy that governs it. Controller-level judgment, bookkeeper-level willingness.
• Deep QuickBooks Online (or equivalent ERP) skills, comfort with integrated fintech stacks like Ramp and bill-pay tools, and ideally a migration or implementation under your belt.
• Detail-obsessed, tie-out disciplined, and calm when close week collides with an urgent ask.
• Processes are being built, not inherited. You’d rather write the SOP than ask for one.

Requirements

• Own the monthly close.
• Keep the books clean every day.
• Own inventory accounting.
• Manage cash and lender reporting.
• Run payroll, benefits, and taxes.
• Build the control environment.
• Run the systems.
• Use technology to work smarter.

Benefits

• Ground-floor opportunity at a company building the future of a massive, fragmented industry.
• A real title trajectory, this seat is designed to become the Controller seat as the company scales.
• Build the accounting function from scratch, your close, your controls, your systems.
• A team that uses AI and technology as a competitive advantage, not as a buzzword.
• Equity in a high-growth company.