Controller

Qualified Health PBC; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical/Dental/Vision

Hybrid work options

Competitive salary

Equity bonuses

Job summary

Qualified Health, an AI-native healthcare company, is seeking a startup-focused Controller to own the integrity of the financial close and the accuracy of actuals, building lean infrastructure for scale.

You will manage monthly close, revenue recognition for SaaS, payroll, vendor payments, audits, and board reporting, partnering with leadership and external accountants.

This role offers equity, competitive compensation, and hybrid work in Palo Alto.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years in accounting or controllership, startups preferred.
• CPA strongly preferred.
• ASC 606 in SaaS or recurring revenue context.
• Venture/audit diligence experience is a plus.
• Design lean processes and document them.

Responsibilities

• Own the monthly and quarterly close process end-to-end.
• Treasury management: banking, runway, and cash controls.
• Maintain GAAP-compliant financial statements and audit readiness.
• Own revenue recognition for SaaS.
• Run employee payroll and manage vendor payments.
• Maintain and manage actuals infrastructure and expense reconciliation.
• Support forecasts and variance analysis; raise risks when needed.
• Lead relationships with auditors, tax advisors, and accounting firms.
• Support board reporting and investor diligence with clear financials.
• Evaluate and maintain accounting systems and tooling; make build/buy decisions.
• Design and own end-to-end AP/AR processes.

Skills

GAAP fundamentals

SaaS revenue

ASC 606

Audit readiness

Public accounting experience

Education

CPA certification

Tools

Brex

Job description

Transform healthcare with us.

At Qualified Health, we’re redefining what’s possible with Generative AI in healthcare. Our infrastructure provides the guardrails for safe AI governance, healthcare-specific agent creation, and real-time algorithm monitoring, working alongside leading healthcare organizations to drive real change.

This is more than just a job. It’s an opportunity to build the future of AI in healthcare, solve complex challenges, and make a lasting impact on patient care. If you’re ambitious, innovative, and ready to move fast, we’d love to have you on board.

Join us in shaping the future of healthcare.

Job Summary

We're an AI native company building our internal operations intentionally. We are looking for a startup-focused Controller who balances depth in GAAP fundamentals with strategic instincts and a builders’ mindset. Your mission will be to own the integrity of our financial close, the accuracy of our actuals, and the infrastructure that makes our numbers trustworthy and useful; to our leadership, investors, and auditors.

Together with our forecasts, you close the loop: the quality of your actuals is what makes their forecasts credible, and their forecasts are the context in which people will understand your work.

This role has craft at its core. We want someone who pattern-matches to best-in-the-world execution and uses that expertise to build lean, durable infrastructure that can scale without becoming a burden. Administrative work is everywhere, and while you’ve done it all, you’re strategic about what gets done by hand, what gets automated, and what gets skipped. We want someone who is excited about building a Controller role with an AI mindset.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the monthly and quarterly close process end-to-end: fast, clean, and built to get faster and cleaner over time.

• Treasury management: banking, runway, and cash controls.

• Maintain our GAAP-compliant financial statements with the depth and documentation to hold up under audit, investor diligence, or similar; while also ensuring that leaders have the specific information they need in a clear, accessible format.

• Own revenue recognition, with experience in SaaS.

• Run employee payroll (semi-monthly exempt workforce) in partnership with People Ops

• Handle vendor and contractor payments as well as cash impacts of employee payroll such as accruals, employer tax, etc.

• Maintain and manage our “actuals” infrastructure including Brex and expense reconciliation.

• Support the finance team in creating a tight feedback loop between forecasts and actuals, treating variance as a useful learning opportunity; but also raising risks effectively as needed.

• Lead relationships with external auditors, tax advisors, and accounting firms to make tax time and expected filings smooth and easy.

• Support board reporting and investor diligence with well-organized, clearly documented financials that tell a coherent story

• Evaluate and maintain our accounting systems and tooling; make deliberate choices about what to build, what to buy, and what to leave alone for now.

• Design and own end-to-end AP/AR processes

Required Qualifications

• 8-10 years (or equivalent) in accounting or controllership, including time at a high-growth startup and a foundation in public accounting or audit preferred. CPA strongly preferred. Healthcare accounting experience is a plus.

• Mastery of the fundamentals, applied in our context. You know what it takes to stay compliant as we scale, including what can wait without harming compliance or safety.

• Deep familiarity with ASC 606 in a SaaS or recurring revenue context. Bonus if you've worked through the accounting implications of variable or performance-based compensation structures.

• You've built for diligence before (venture, strategic, or audit).

• You design processes that are as light as the work allows, document them so they survive you, and resist complexity that doesn't earn its keep.

• Collaborative and transparent. You share your work early, communicate proactively when something is off, a trusted partner within finance and to the business.

Why Join Qualified Health?

This is an opportunity to join a fast-growing company and a world-class team, that is poised to change the healthcare industry. We are a passionate, mission-driven team that is building a category-defining product. We are backed by premier investors and are looking for founding team members who are excited to do the best work of their careers.

Our employees are integral to achieving our goals so we are proud to offer competitive salaries with equity packages, robust medical/dental/vision insurance, flexible working hours, hybrid work options and an inclusive environment that fosters creativity and innovation.

Our Commitment to Diversity

Qualified Health is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace is essential to our success, and we are committed to building a team that reflects the world we live in. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, disability, or veteran status.

Pay & Benefits

The pay range for this role is between $200,000 and $250,000, depending on skills, qualifications, experience, and location. This role is also eligible for equity, bonus, and benefits.

Join our mission to revolutionize healthcare with AI.