Assistant Controller Boston, MA or Remote (US) View open position

BlueConic, Inc.; Boston (MA); Remote; USD 135,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in customer growth technology seeks an Assistant Controller to manage financial operations, oversee compliance, and streamline processes using AI and automation. This role requires a CPA and experience in diverse accounting environments, especially within SaaS settings. Join a remote-first team dedicated to innovating customer data utilization and growth.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package

401(k) matching

28 vacation days annually

Paid parenting leave

Career advancement opportunities

Qualifications

• Certified Public Accountant (CPA) designation is strongly preferred.
• Experience in SaaS or technology companies.
• Familiarity with international accounting standards, particularly in the Netherlands.

Responsibilities

• Support GAAP-compliant financial reporting and monthly closings.
• Administer and optimize use of NetSuite for reporting.
• Oversee preparation and filing of federal and state tax filings.

Skills

Analytical mindset

Strong attention to detail

Excellent communication skills

Education

Certified Public Accountant (CPA)

4-6 years of progressive accounting experience

Tools

NetSuite

Job description

Full-time, Boston, MA or Remote (US)
Hurry up! We’ve got a dream to build!

BlueConic is the leading Customer Growth Engine, helping brands turn first-party data into meaningful growth. Our AI-powered platform gives teams the intelligence, real-time activation, and life-ycle optimization capabilities they need grow faster, retain more customers, and future-proof their business.We’re not just solving legacy CDP challenges. We’re powering the future of customer growth—built for the agentic age, where real-time data, decisioning, and multi-agent execution unlock what’s next. With more than 500 brands on board and teams around the world, we’re enabling companies to drive real business outcomes from their data.

The accounting team plays a critical role in our fast moving business. As an Assistant Controller at BlueConic, you will support the Director of Finance in leading a team of accounting and finance professionals in multiple countries and play a hands-on role evolving our financial processes to support the next stage of our growth.

Your expertise with NetSuite and familiarity with international accounting practices, particularly in the Netherlands, will be instrumental as we scale our global operations. You will also play a key role in identifying and leveraging AI-powered tools to streamline processes, reduce manual workloads, and improve decision-making across finance functions.

In this role you will:

• Financial Operations and Reporting: Support monthly, quarterly, and annual financial closings ensuring accurate and timely GAAP-compliant reporting. Assist with consolidating multi-entity financial statements and managing intercompany transactions.
• Technical Accounting: Research and apply technical accounting standards to complex business transactions (e.g., revenue recognition, lease accounting, equity accounting, and business combinations). Serve as the go-to internal expert for interpreting and implementing new accounting standards (ASC updates, SEC reporting guidance, etc.).
• General Ledger and Month-End Close: Administer and optimize the use of NetSuite for financial and operational reporting, process automation, and compliance. Manage journal entries, account reconciliations, and variance analyses.
• Audit & Compliance: Coordinate annual audits and ensure compliance with internal controls, accounting standards, and tax regulations.
• Cash Management: Support treasury functions, including cash flow forecasting, banking relationships, and currency risk management.
• Tax Compliance: Oversee preparation and filing of all federal, state, and international tax filings in coordination with external advisors; ensure compliance with evolving tax regulations across jurisdictions.
• International Accounting: Collaborate with our Netherlands-based finance team to ensure compliance with local accounting standards and tax laws.
• Process Improvement: Assist in streamlining and scaling accounting operations, policies, and systems using automation and AI-based technologies to increase accuracy, speed, and operational efficiency.

We are looking for someone with the following skills:

• Certified Public Accountant (CPA) designation is strongly preferred..
• 4 -6 years of progressive accounting experience, ideally within SaaS or technology companies.
• Hands-on experience with NetSuite is a plus.
• Familiarity with international accounting, especially Dutch/Netherlands GAAP and tax frameworks, is a significant plus.
• Experience with multi-entity consolidations and intercompany transactions.
• Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP; IFRS knowledge is a plus.
• Proven ability to manage audits, and work cross-functionally.
• Analytical mindset, strong attention to detail, and excellent communication skills.

Preferred Experience

• Public accounting background (Big 4 or regional firm).
• Experience in a SaaS and multi-entity/global organization.
• Familiarity with technical standards relevant to SAAS companies.
• Interest in AI-enabled automation tools and their application in finance operations.

Reasons to join us:

• Help build & support the best martech product ever, period.
• Take advantage of great opportunities for career advancement.
• Empower big name brands to achieve their marketing goals.
• Be a part of a growing, remote-first team with employees based in the Netherlands, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and beyond.
• Thrive in a multi-cultural environment with a values-driven work culture that has been thoughtfully crafted to enable growth and foster inclusion from the very beginning.

About BlueConic:

BlueConic is the operating system that puts data into action for marketing and growth doers. Our vision is one where marketers achieve their long-held, rarely realized ambitions of blending creativity with data, and performance with agility. With BlueConic, this ambition becomes a reality, transforming the relationship between brands and consumers. More than 500 businesses worldwide rely on BlueConic to unlock their full customer data potential, including Forbes, Heineken, Mattel, Michelin, Telia Company, and VF Corp.

As a group, we are driven by “building the dream” - the collective passion, ethic, vision, and set of values channeled by a group to achieve a common goal of being extraordinary. Our goal is for BlueConic to be a fun, productive, welcoming, and safe space where BlueCrew members of all races and ethnicities, gender identities, gender expressions, sexual orientations, physical abilities, neurodivergences, physical appearances, socioeconomic backgrounds, life experiences, nationalities, ages, religions, and beliefs are empowered to be able to make an outsized impact every day – for customers, for partners, for employees.

If hired, applicants based in the US can expect an annual base salary and target bonus within the following ranges, depending on experience. BlueConic also offers a comprehensive benefits package to full-time employees including a selection of medical, dental, and vision insurance plans, 401(k) matching, 28 vacation days annually, paid parenting leave, and more.

Annual base salary

$135,000 - $145,000 USD

Annual target bonus

$13,500 - $14,500 USD

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