Corporate Controller: Scale FinOps & Equity Strategy

Gimlet Labs, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 280,000 - 315,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Job summary

Gimlet Labs, Inc. is seeking a Corporate Controller to own the accounting and financial operations foundation as the company scales.

This build role requires hands-on leadership across close, technical accounting, audits, payroll, equity administration, and cash management, partnering with Finance, GTM, Engineering, Legal, and leadership to implement scalable processes and robust controls. You will drive ERP investments and finance-system improvements, automate repetitive work with AI, and

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive accounting experience with ownership of Accounting & Financial Operations.
• Experience as Controller or senior accounting leader in a fast-growing company.
• US GAAP expertise across revenue, leases, stock-based compensation, and complex arrangements.
• Personally owned a full close and consolidation across multiple legal entities.
• Hands-on payroll, equity administration, AP, billing, collections, and cash operations.
• Led external audits and helped build the systems, controls, and policies required for increasing audit and public-company readiness.

Responsibilities

• Own multi-entity monthly, quarterly, and annual close across a growing multi-entity organization, improving the speed and reliability of financial reporting.
• Lead consolidations and accounting across corporate entities and SPVs, partnering with Finance, Tax, Treasury, and Legal on complex transactions.
• Own technical accounting across revenue recognition, leases, fixed assets, stock-based compensation, and complex commercial arrangements.
• Lead external audits and build the policies, controls, and operating discipline required as Gimlet moves toward public-company readiness.
• Own Financial Operations across payroll, equity administration, cash operations, procurement, AP, billing, collections, and AR.
• Build scalable billing and collections processes as Gimlet introduces increasingly complex commercial and usage-based pricing models.
• Partner with Commerce and Engineering to translate how Gimlet's products are priced and consumed into reliable billing, accounting, and financial operations.
• Own and evolve Gimlet's accounting technology stack, including ERP implementation and adjacent financial systems.
• Use automation and AI to eliminate repetitive work and improve the team's efficiency and accuracy.
• Proactively evaluate material contracts and new business arrangements for accounting and operational implications.
• Build and develop the Accounting and Financial Operations organization as Gimlet scales.

Skills

GAAP expertise

Close & consolidation

Cross-functional collaboration

ERP systems

Audits

Payroll & equity administration

Education

CPA or equivalent qualification

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

Gimlet Labs, Inc. is seeking a Corporate Controller to own the accounting and financial operations foundation as the company scales.

This build role requires hands-on leadership across close, technical accounting, audits, payroll, equity administration, and cash management, partnering with Finance, GTM, Engineering, Legal, and leadership to implement scalable processes and robust controls. You will drive ERP investments and finance-system improvements, automate repetitive work with AI, and