Director of Accounting

Responsibilities

• Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual close and consolidation process, driving toward a faster, cleaner, and well-documented cycle.
• Build and maintain the general ledger, chart of accounts, and accounting policies that scale with a high-growth, global business.
• Research and conclude on technical accounting and document positions in clear, audit-ready memos.
• Lead the company through its first-year financial statement audit and build toward the controls and rigor required for IPO readiness.
• Design the controls, systems, and AI-enabled automation that make accounting meaningfully more efficient, adopting new tools with measured judgment and the right guardrails.
• Lay the foundation for a best-in-class accounting team, across people, process, and systems.

Requirements

• 8-10 years of progressive accounting experience, including a mix of Big 4 public accounting and high-growth industry roles.
• CPA with deep technical US GAAP expertise.
• Proven ownership of the close and consolidation process, ideally across multiple entities or currencies.
• Experience leading external financial statement audits (first-year audit experience ideal).
• Experience in consumer tech, SaaS, or other high-volume revenue environments.
• Hands-on experience implementing accounting systems, automation, and internal controls, including a demonstrated, measured use of AI to unlock efficiency.
• Builder's mindset, comfortable doing the work yourself today while designing the processes and team to scale tomorrow.

Nice-to-Haves

• Familiarity with music royalties or content/IP-related accounting.
• IPO readiness, SOX, global/multi-entity, or M&A/integration experience.
• Demonstrated capability building AI-enabled accounting workflows.