[Hiring] Controller @AirGarage

Role Description

As our Controller, you'll be the architect and owner of AirGarage's accounting function, the person who makes our numbers unimpeachable. You'll lead our in-house accounting team, modernize our systems and processes, and build the financial foundation that a fast-scaling, capital-intensive, real-world business demands.

This is a builder's role, not a maintainer's role. Money moves through our platform every day: collected from drivers, split with property owners, taxed by dozens of jurisdictions. Our accounting has to keep pace with a business that gets more complex every quarter. You'll take us from scrappy to scalable:

• Converting our books to full accrual accounting
• Leading our migration from QuickBooks to a modern ERP
• Rebuilding the chart of accounts
• Tightening the close
• Getting us audit-ready

You'll report to our CEO today and to finance leadership as the team grows. This is the cornerstone accounting seat at AirGarage: the person every future finance hire will be glad came before them.

If you love the craft of accounting, if clean books, tight controls, and a fast close are things you take genuine pride in, this is a rare chance to build the whole thing your way, at a company where the work actually matters to how the business is run and is critical to the end product delivered to customers.

Qualifications

• Deep technical accounting chops: CPA (or equivalent rigor) with real command of GAAP, especially revenue recognition for transactional or marketplace-style businesses.
• Experience as the senior-most accounting owner (Controller, Assistant Controller, or Director of Accounting) at a venture-backed company during rapid growth.
• ERP migration experience: Led a move off QuickBooks onto a modern ERP.
• Cash-to-accrual conversion experience.
• Audit experience: Prepared a company for and taken it through financial statement audits.
• Systems thinker: Comfortable working alongside data teams and designing processes.
• Hands-on operator: Involved in daily accounting tasks.
• Complexity is your comfort zone: Experience with multi-location, multi-jurisdiction, revenue-share, or payments-heavy businesses.
• Pride in the craft: Ambition to be an exceptional Controller.
• Bias for action: Move fast and fix root causes.

Requirements

• Strongly preferred: Big Four or top regional firm foundation.
• Startup operating experience.
• Indirect tax / sales tax / regulatory fee experience across many jurisdictions.
• Experience with payment processors and marketplace money movement.
• Familiarity with modern accounting tools and automation.

Benefits

• Equity: Have a stake in the business that you’re helping to build and grow.
• Work remotely: Live and work wherever you like within North America.
• Health insurance: 85% coverage of medical, dental, and vision plans for the primary employee and 50% for dependents.
• Parental Leave: 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
• Home office setup: Get a laptop and additional equipment needed for success.
• Time to recharge: Unlimited PTO policy with a minimum requirement of 10 days per year.
• 401k: Retirement savings program.
• Team Off-sites: ~2 times per year for full week gatherings.
• BookGarage: Optional recurring book club for team learning.
• Room to grow: Opportunities to grow with the company.
• Transform our cities: Change the way the world thinks about real estate use.
• Work with a diverse team: Commitment to building a thriving team that represents the communities we serve.