Director of Corporate Controller

Prezent; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 185,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Prezent is seeking a Director of Corporate Controller to lead their accounting operations in a fully remote environment. This leadership role involves overseeing financial audits, compliance with GAAP, and managing a growing accounting team. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in public accounting and a proven track record in high-growth environments. This position is integral to ensuring financial efficiency and building an accounting infrastructure in line with Prezent's rapid expansion.

Benefits

ESOPs: Employee Stock Options

Flexible, top-tier benefits package

Fully remote work culture

Professional growth opportunities

Qualifications

• 10-12+ years of experience in public accounting and controllership positions.
• Strong knowledge of US GAAP and SEC reporting requirements.
• Experience with SaaS businesses and M&A transactions preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage monthly/quarterly/year-end close process, ensuring all general accounting functions.
• Prepare monthly consolidated financials and perform variance analysis.
• Lead annual financial audits and provide expertise on M&A transactions.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Technical accounting

Financial modeling

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance

CPA qualification

Job description

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Position Title: Director of Corporate Controller - Accounting & Finance

Job Location: US (100% remote)

Employee Location: US

Job Type: Full-time

Our Mission

Prezent is on a mission to transform how enterprises communicate. Founded in 2021, we have rapidly grown into a 200+ person, fully remote team that’s backed by $40+ million in venture funding. Our AI-powered productivity platform, ASTRID, is the first solution purpose-built for enterprise communication needs—delivering up to 90% time savings and 60% cost reduction in presentation development.

Our Vision

We believe that effective communication accelerates business impact. By automating design best practices and tailoring content to audience dynamics, Prezent empowers teams to craft clear, engaging, and on-brand presentations at scale. Our focus is on enabling Fortune 2000 companies—particularly in industries like healthcare, biopharma, high-tech, banking, and insurance—to achieve better alignment, faster decision-making, and stronger business outcomes.

Growth Trajectory

Rapid ARR Growth: We aim for 100% YoY revenue expansion—an ambitious but achievable target given our historical track record.

Path to Profitability: With strong product-market fit and significant capital raised, we anticipate a clear route to profitability in the next 2 to 4 years, should we choose that path.

Role Overview

We’re looking for a Corporate Controller to oversee Accounting Operations, Consolidations, the monthly close process end-to-end, as well as our Annual Financial Audit. Reporting to the SVP of Finance & Operations, you will be responsible for hiring and developing team members, managing day-to-day accounting activities, and establishing new processes as well as improving existing processes to drive efficiency. You will interact and coordinate with colleagues in Finance, Revenue Operations, various other departments across the Company and third-party consultants to ensure proper accounting treatment and accurate financial results. The Corporate Controller will play a key leadership role in the Finance organization around process improvement, system implementations and optimizations, automation initiatives, M&A integration, standardizing processes and mentoring the team.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage all general accounting functions which includes performing Company’s monthly / quarterly / year-end close process, eliminations & consolidations, preparing and booking journal entries, account reconciliations and variance analysis.
• Prepare monthly consolidated financials, including fluctuation analysis and budget vs actual comparisons.
• Build the technical infrastructure and control environment to support the company’s hyper-growth and prepare the company for future compliance needs.
• Ensure compliance with GAAP, statutory guidelines, and internal financial policies
• Direct activities related to efficient customer cash collection and vendor payments and overall cash management and cash forecasting.
• Build financial models to manage cash and make intelligent and proactive operational decisions.
• Analyze company operations to identify operational and cost efficiencies and implement solutions.
• Leverage technology to build scalable/sustainable processes to create efficiencies, streamline accounting operations and improve employee experience.
• Establish strong relationships with cross-functional peers and lead the team to collaborate with and influence business partners and be the “go-to” accounting resource for them.
• Partner with the People organization on various HR operational responsibilities, including payroll, processing employee onboarding & offboarding, and benefits management.
• Oversee tax-related matters and intercompany agreements to ensure timely compliance
• Lead annual financial audits, as required.
• Provide accounting expertise on M&A transactions from pre-acquisition due diligence through post-acquisition integration.
• Provide leadership required to grow and strengthen the accounting team, with a commitment to recruiting, training and mentoring.

Must-Have Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance, CPA qualified is a plus - with excellent technical accounting skills.
• 10-12+ years of experience in public accounting experience with a national accounting firm and controllership positions especially on the revenue front.
• Strong knowledge of US GAAP, SEC reporting requirements, and regulations.
• Working knowledge of federal, state, and local tax compliance regulations and reporting
• Extensive experience in a fast growth corporate environment.
• Execution-oriented with a proven ability and desire to work effectively, delivering accurate results under tight deadlines in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, dynamic environment.
• Strong interpersonal and presentation skills with the ability to confidently and effectively communicate to all employee levels within the culturally and geographically diverse Company.
• Experience with setting up and operating accounting processes for foreign entities / subsidiaries.
• Strategic thinker who can develop a plan to build a world class company accounting organization with the attention to detail and leadership ability to drive change and execute the plan.
• Prior experience with high growth and at-scale SaaS businesses is strongly preferred.
• Experience in financing and M&A transaction work preferred.
• Compensation: MinimumBase USD $185K + 10% Bonus (subject to performance during the interview process)
• ESOPs: You’ll be eligible for Employee Stock options.
• Incentives: Competitive commission based on new ARR, account expansions, and successful renewals.
• Comprehensive Benefits: Flexible, top-tier benefits package in line with US market standards.
• Remote Work Culture: Fully remote with best-in-class collaboration tools (Salesforce, Gong, Apollo, etc.).
• Professional Growth: Thrive in a fast-paced environment that encourages innovation, continuous learning, and career progression.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Finance and Accounting/Auditing

• Industries

  Software Development, Technology, Information and Media, and Financial Services

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