[Hiring] Assistant Controller @Houzz

Role Description

The Assistant Controller is a key financial leader responsible for partnering with the VP, Financial Operations & Controller, to oversee accounting operations, technical accounting, financial reporting, and other related functions. This is a senior accounting leadership role, with leveling at the Senior Manager or Director commensurate with the individual's experience, scope of expertise, and demonstrated leadership. In this role, you will set direction, improve key processes, lead through others, and ensure the company's operations are efficient, audit-ready, and aligned with business strategy.

This role will own the technical accounting and reporting governance framework globally—including:

• Revenue recognition
• Leases
• Equity compensation
• Impairments
• Business combinations
• Strategic transactions
• New products
• Non-standard commercial arrangements
• Emerging standards

While supporting Finance, Legal, Tax, People, Sales Operations, executive leadership, external auditors, and outside advisors, the ideal candidate brings deep technical expertise alongside a passion for people development, process improvement, and innovation. You'll help scale the accounting organization by:

• Developing talent
• Strengthening controls
• Improving close and reporting discipline
• Championing practical AI and automation

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive accounting experience, including significant leadership experience across technical accounting, financial reporting, controls, and operational accounting
• CPA license (required) with public accounting experience, preferably Big 4 or national firm, with additional experience in a technology, SaaS, or similarly complex business environment
• Deep technical accounting expertise and a demonstrated track record of translating complex U.S. GAAP guidance into practical, scalable business applications
• Proven experience preparing, reviewing, and approving technical accounting memos, accounting policies, audit support, reporting deliverables, and executive-level accounting conclusions
• Excellence in leading and developing team members, setting review standards, coaching technical judgment, and building repeatable operating practices across accounting or reporting functions
• Hands-on working knowledge of month-end close, reconciliations, flux analysis, journal entry review, accruals, and intercompany activity
• Exceptional communication and cross-functional influence skills
• Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-paced environments
• A bias toward action and continuous improvement

Requirements

• Experience in SaaS, software, marketplace, subscription, or high-growth technology environments
• Experience with ASC 606, equity-based compensation, software capitalization, leases, impairments, business combinations, strategic transactions, and other complex technical accounting areas
• Experience supporting IPO readiness, public-company reporting standards, SOX readiness, scaled audit requirements, or finance transformation initiatives
• Experience partnering with executive leadership, external auditors, outside advisors, and legal or tax stakeholders on complex accounting matters
• Experience with NetSuite, Numeric, Anrok, Salesforce, SQL, BI tools, close automation, reporting automation, or similar accounting and reporting systems
• Experience evaluating or implementing AI-enabled finance and accounting tools

Benefits

• Annual starting salary range of $150,000 - $200,000
• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Home internet stipend
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Maternity/paternity leave program
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Professional Development Reimbursement Program
• 401(k) retirement savings plans (Pre-Tax and Roth)
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) - Medical & Dependent Care
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with company contribution
• Healthy at Houzz program