# Controller

**Company:** [LiveKit](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/livekit)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Finance & Accounting
**Salary:** $230k – $275k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** NetSuite, ASC 606, US GAAP, Asc 718, Asc 842, Quickbooks, Stripe, Metronome, Avalara, Anrok
**Posted:** 2026-05-08

> Owns end-to-end accounting function including monthly/quarterly closes, ASC 606 revenue recognition for usage-based SaaS, audit/tax management, and financial systems like NetSuite. Builds scalable infrastructure in hypergrowth startup; requires CPA, 5-9 years experience, Big 4 or VC-backed SaaS background.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Do

- Monthly and quarterly close (full ownership — journal entries, reconciliations, flux analysis)
- Revenue recognition policy and execution under ASC 606, including consumption/usage contracts, minimum commits, credit structures, and bundled offerings
- Sales tax compliance: nexus study, Anrok/Avalara implementation, historical VDA process, ongoing accruals
- Deferred revenue waterfall and RPO reporting
- Audit relationship and annual audit execution (first audit likely FY2026 or FY2027)
- Tax filings (federal, state income; R&D credit; 1099s) — managing external preparers
- Equity accounting: ASC 718 stock comp expense, 409A coordination, option grant journal entries
- Lease accounting: ASC 842 assessment on cloud infrastructure commitments (AWS/GCP CUDs that may qualify as embedded leases)
- Billing system integrity: NetSuite/QuickBooks↔Metronome/Stripe reconciliation; ensuring recognized revenue ties to invoiced and collected amounts
- Internal controls: designing and documenting controls sufficient for a first audit and eventual SOC 1/SOC 2 readiness

## Bonus Points

- Board and investor reporting (Controller provides the audited/GAAP numbers; Cameron contextualizes)
- Fundraising data room (financial statements, cap table schedules, rev-rec memos, audit workpapers)
- Financial systems roadmap (NetSuite upgrade, billing system consolidation)
- Hiring the next layer of accounting staff (Senior Accountant, likely a 2027 hire)

## Who You Are

- CPA required. This person will own the audit relationship and sign off on technical memos.
- 5–9 years of experience: Big 4 Controller or Senior Manager at a VC-backed SaaS company.
- ASC 606 depth — must have personally built or owned rev-rec policy for a SaaS company with usage-based or consumption revenue. Subscription-only experience is insufficient given our credit/consumption model.
- First audit experience — either taken a company through its first audit or managed the annual audit process at a Series B/C company. Comfortable as the primary counterparty to the auditors, not just a document preparer.
- NetSuite experience — we are on or moving to NetSuite; prior implementation or heavy operating experience required.
- Startup mentality — will be largely solo on the accounting side initially. Must be comfortable building the close process from scratch, writing the accounting policies, and doing the reconciliations themselves before eventually delegating.

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