Controller

Spreedly; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary + Equity

100% employer-paid medical and dental

Company-paid Life and Disability

Job summary

Spreedly is seeking a Controller to lead our accounting function and scale the finance operations. You will own the books, drive close processes, and partner with FP&A and cross-functional leaders to support growth.

In this role, you will modernize systems, implement automation and AI-enabled workflows, and ensure ASC 606 revenue recognition compliance for usage-based contracts. This is a high-impact, autonomous leadership position.

Qualifications

• Active CPA certification and accounting leadership experience.
• Experience owning a broad accounting function across multiple areas.
• SaaS accounting experience with usage-based or ARR models.

Responsibilities

• Lead the accounting function with timely, accurate close.
• Oversee financial statements, AR, AP, payroll, revenue recognition, tax, and audit.
• Own and modernize the accounting systems stack (NetSuite, Orb, Ramp) and automate processes.

Skills

Accounting leadership

SaaS accounting knowledge

Automation & AI workflows

Close management

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

CPA

Tools

NetSuite

Orb

Ramp

Job description

About Us: Spreedly is the world's leading Open Payments Platform. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Durham, NC, the company gives mid-market and enterprise businesses the infrastructure to connect to any payment gateway, processor, or fraud tool through a single API. The platform is vendor-agnostic by design, meaning customers are never locked into a single provider and never need to rebuild their payments stack to access new capabilities.

The core business problem Spreedly solves is real and costly: global merchants face a fragmented payments ecosystem, where every new market, payment method, or fraud tool typically requires a separate, time-consuming integration. Spreedly eliminates that complexity, enabling companies to route transactions intelligently, secure cardholder data, prevent fraud, and expand into new markets without heavy engineering overhead.

About the Role:

Spreedly is looking for a Controller to lead our accounting function and help build a more automated, scalable operating environment. Reporting to the VP of Finance, you'll own accounting across the business while partnering closely with FP&A and cross-functional leaders.

This is an opportunity for an experienced accounting leader who wants meaningful autonomy, enjoys solving complex problems, and knows what great systems and processes look like. Our usage-based model — including contracts with commitments, overages, and usage billed in arrears — creates accounting challenges beyond those found in a typical SaaS environment. You'll be the steward of our finance systems, including NetSuite, Orb, and Ramp, and a driving force behind modernizing how the accounting function runs, including where automation and AI tools can remove manual work.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the accounting function, with responsibility for accurate books and a timely, consistent close
• Oversee core accounting areas including financial statements, accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll, revenue recognition, treasury, tax, and audit
• Own and improve the accounting systems stack, including NetSuite, Orb, and Ramp, ensuring data integrity across integrations
• Assess current workflows and implement practical systems automation and AI-enabled processes
• Build scalable processes and controls that support the company as it grows, including SOC 2 / audit readiness
• Navigate accounting for usage-based contracts, including commitments, overages, and billing in arrears
• Review SaaS and usage-based customer contracts for revenue recognition impact under ASC 606, partnering with Legal and Sales on rev rec-sensitive terms
• Lead and develop the accounting team, including determining the most effective reporting structure
• Partner cross-functionally with FP&A, Legal, Revenue Operations, Business Operations, and other teams on contracts and business decisions
• Own the annual financial statement audit and any tax examinations, coordinating with external auditors and tax advisors
• Oversee corporate tax compliance (income, sales/use, and other filings) in partnership with outside tax advisors
• Bring a clear point of view on what good looks like and translate it into better systems, processes, and team practices

Requirements:

• Active CPA certification
• Accounting leadership and people-management experience
• Experience owning a broad accounting function rather than a narrow specialty
• SaaS accounting experience
• Demonstrated success in implementing systems and process automation
• Hands-on experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude, Gemini) or AI-enabled workflows to improve accounting operations
• Strong knowledge of close management, financial reporting, revenue recognition (including ASC 606), and core accountingoperations
• Ability to think quickly, operate autonomously, and work effectively in a fast-paced environment
• Strong cross-functional communication and collaboration skills

Additional Skills We Value:

• Experience in fintech or payments
• Experience with usage-based or consumption-based business models
• Experience in a startup, SMB, or mid-market environment where you have owned a wide range of accounting responsibilities
• Big Four experience combined with hands-on ownership of accounting systems, processes, or team development
• Direct experience with Orb, Chargebee, or another usage-based billing platform
• Direct experience with Ramp or a similar T&E/spend management platform

We Offer US-based Employees:

• Competitive salary + Equity
• Outstanding Medical and Dental benefits, including 100% employer-paid options
• Company-paid Life and Disability insurance
• Optional vision and supplemental insurance options, and various Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• Open Paid Time Off policy + 12 weeks of paid leave for new parents
• Matching 401(k) plan (5% up to $5,000 yearly)
• Monthly home working/digital lifestyle stipend, new MacBook, and one-time accessory reimbursement
• $1,000 annual professional development stipend
• Access to company-paid professional coaching service
• Visits to HQ in Durham, North Carolina for remote employees

Spreedly Product Offering:

Connect — A unified API that integrates with hundreds of payment gateways, processors, and alternative payment methods worldwide, including digital wallets. Merchants access the global payments ecosystem through one connection.

Vault — A PCI-compliant secure repository for payment methods. Merchants store card data once and reuse it across any payment service, reducing PCI scope and protecting cardholder data at scale.

Optimize — Workflow-driven routing and retry logic that directs each transaction to the best-performing gateway in real time. On average, 7.9% of failed transactions succeed immediately when retried on a secondary gateway. This is where merchants recover lost revenue and increase authorization success rates.

Protect — A flexible fraud and authentication layer, incorporating advanced fraud tools and 3DS. Following Spreedly's acquisition of Dodgeball in September 2025, fraud orchestration and payment optimization now operate within the same platform.

Resolve — Centralized management and reporting that reduces operational silos, strengthens security, and improves billing control across a merchant's entire payment operation.

More Coming Soon! — Keep your eyes peeled for a new product launch by EOY '26

What It's Like to Work Here:

We describe our team as "Spreedlings": diverse, forward-thinking, and driven by a shared belief that a more open payments ecosystem benefits everyone. The company operates with a culture built on transparency, courageous collaboration, and self-driven leadership. The team values simplicity in both product and process, and approaches problem-solving with genuine curiosity.

We champion the ethical, creative use of AI—if you’re someone who pairs human judgment with modern AI tools to work smarter and drive bigger impact, you’ll thrive here.

Spreedly is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. We actively work to drive out even unintentional discrimination in our hiring processes via practices like blindly graded work samples, structured interviews, and diversity awareness training.

Due to the sensitive nature of what Spreedly does - handling payment data - finalist candidates must complete a successful background and reference check.

At this time Spreedly is unable to provide sponsorship for employment, and we are not set up to support remote employees who reside in New York. In order to be considered for employment, applicants must be currently legally authorized to work in the job location country and not require future sponsorship in order to continue working in that country.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.