Corporate Controller

Openkrill; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

PTO

Bonus potential

Job summary

Beacon Biosignals is seeking a Corporate Controller to own accounting, payroll, and compliance, partnering with leaders across the business. You will drive close processes, revenue recognition, and internal controls while shaping the finance infrastructure to support rapid growth.

The role reports to the CEO and is ideal for a CPA with startup finance experience who enjoys building scalable processes, data-driven storytelling, and collaborating across teams.

Qualifications

• CPA required.
• 3+ years in public accounting.
• 7+ years in finance, startup experience preferred.
• Degree in finance, statistics, economics, business, or related field.
• Interest in building infrastructure to sustain growth with strong financial controls.
• Ability to translate numbers into ROI insight for leadership.
• Ability to convey complex financial concepts to non-finance leaders.
• Desire to drive continuous process improvements.
• Excellent Excel skills and experience with QuickBooks.

Responsibilities

• Oversee accounting and payroll, including month-end close.
• Support invoicing and AP activities.
• Lead revenue recognition and operational finance topics.
• Develop and maintain GAAP-compliant policies, internal controls, and procedures.
• Support forecasting and financial performance monitoring.
• Prepare internal and external financial statements.
• Produce KPI reporting and variance insights for leadership meetings.
• Assist with headcount planning and projections with People Ops.
• Review payroll tax returns and ensure proper remittance and recording.
• Streamline accounting systems and processes for efficiency.

Skills

CPA

Public accounting

Finance experience

Excel

QuickBooks

ROI storytelling

Finance leadership

Communication to leaders

Education

Finance/ Economics degree

Tools

Excel

QuickBooks

Job description

Beacon Biosignals is transforming precision medicine for the brain, from clinical development to clinical care. For Life Sciences partners, we offer the leading at-home EEG platform for clinical development of novel therapeutics for neurological, psychiatric, and sleep disorders. Our Diagnostics business is building the most comprehensive at-home platform for precision diagnostics, combining EEG and cardiopulmonary signals to deliver reimbursable assessments for sleep and central nervous system disorders. Together, we're changing the way patients are diagnosed and treated for any disorder that affects brain physiology.

Beacon Biosignals is seeking a finance team member to join us as a Corporate Controller. This role will be primarily responsible for overseeing and ensuring high-quality accounting practices, compliance and cash management strategies. We are a growth-stage Series B company that is rapidly scaling up, which will also create opportunities for candidates aiming to grow their financial strategy skills. This role will be mission critical to our future success and will be a partner to leaders across all parts of the business. Beacon values continuous improvement and automation, providing opportunities to implement or optimize cloud-based systems and best-in-class finance tools.

This role is preferred to be based out of Beacon's Boston or NYC hub. This role reports directly to the CEO.

What success looks like:

• Oversee all accounting and payroll activities, including the month-end close process
• Support invoicing and AP activities
• Be the in house expert and point person on revenue recognition and operations
• Develop, monitor and maintain accounting policies, procedures, and internal controls to ensure conformance with GAAP, internal policies, external audits and other regulations
• Support financial performance monitoring activities (e.g., execution against forecast)
• Support the timely and accurate preparation of internal and external financial statements
• Produce KPI reporting and root cause trends in KPI and prepare insights for variance and key meetings
• Work with People Operations and leadership to support accurate and continuous headcount planning and projections
• Review quarterly and annual payroll tax returns (Form 941, 940, W-2s, W-3, state equivalents)
• Ensure that all federal, state, and local payroll taxes are calculated, remitted, and recorded accurately
• Create and maintain policies and procedures related to things like travel and other business expenses
• Be responsible for reviewing and approving all expenses
• Ensure accounting systems and processes are continually streamlined to achieve greater efficiencies and accuracy

What you will bring:

• CPA
• 3 + years of experience in public accounting
• 7+ years of experience in Finance, ideally in a startup environment
• A degree in finance, statistics, economics, business or other related fields
• An interest in building out the infrastructure to sustain significant growth while maintaining tight financial controls
• A passion to help others make informed decisions driven by ROI and storytelling with numbers
• An ability to convey complex financial concepts to leaders across the organization
• The desire to drive continuous process improvements
• Outstanding Excel skills with the ability to manipulate large data sets
• Experience with Quickbooks

The base salary range for this role is determined based on past experience, specific skills, and qualifications. The base salary is one component of the total compensation package, which includes an incentive compensation plan, equity, PTO, and other benefits.

At Beacon, we've found that cultural and scientific impact is driven most by those that lead by example. As such, we're always seeking new contributors whose work demonstrates an avid curiosity, a bias towards simplicity, an eye for composability, a self-service mindset, and - most of all - a deep empathy towards colleagues, stakeholders, users, and patients. We believe a diverse team builds more robust systems and achieves higher impact.