Controller

The role

The Controller will build financial systems and the operating foundation for the company's next growth stage. You will own accounting integrity and redesign workflows using an AI-forward mindset. This role reports to the Head of Finance.

What you will do

• Build financial systems and the operating foundation
• Own the integrity of accounting
• Develop a clear, timely understanding of how the company earns and spends money
• Redesign workflows across the close, reconciliations, spend monitoring, and reporting
• Determine where AI can own work and where human review matters
• Work with Product and Engineering to turn internal learnings into better systems
• Manage accounts payable, procurement, expense management, purchasing approvals, vendor commitments, and spend reporting

Required qualifications

• 6-12 years of progressive accounting and finance experience
• Meaningful ownership of accounting operations at a high-growth company
• Strong technical accounting knowledge in financial reporting, revenue recognition, accruals, capitalization, and equity
• Systems mindset to translate processes into workflows, data, controls, and operating rhythms
• Experience building systems for accounts payable, procurement, expense management, purchasing approvals, vendor commitments, and spend reporting
• Strong analytical judgment
• Ability to partner with Engineering, Product, Sales, People, and company leadership

Nice to have

• Experience helping an accounting organization evolve from founder-led or highly manual processes into a scalable function
• AI or Infrastructure Cost Fluency: experience managing or analyzing cloud, compute, model, data, or infrastructure costs
• Experience building procurement, approval, vendor-management, cost-allocation, or expense systems from scratch

Benefits

• Premium Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
• Life Insurance
• 6 coaching and 6 therapy sessions through Spring Health
• 100% coverage of Wellhub Gold membership
• Access to gyms like Lifetime, SoulCycle, NYSC and wellness apps like Strava and Headspace
• Unlimited PTO
• 12 paid company holidays
• Daily meal stipends
• Fully stocked kitchen
• $300 toward custom desk setup
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• 401(k) retirement plan

About the company

Basis builds real agents that perform end-to-end work for large accounting firms. The company recently raised $100M at a valuation of over $1B.