Controller

Summary

Join Netlify's Finance & Accounting team as a Controller and lead key accounting processes, ensuring compliance and driving financial maturity. Partner with cross-functional teams to support contract structure, billing, and revenue processes. Prepare and review financial reports, collaborating with auditors. Identify opportunities to streamline finance workflows using tools and AI-powered solutions. Drive scalable process improvements across order-to-cash and payables cycles. Leverage financial systems like NetSuite, Orb, and Airbase. Maintain audit readiness and compliance with US GAAP and tax standards. Contribute to strategic initiatives and foster a culture of continuous learning. Collaborate with the CFO to drive finance transformation and improve workflows. Netlify offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• Meaningful accounting leadership experience, ideally blending public accounting and in-house operational roles at high-transaction, product-led SaaS companies
• Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP, tax compliance, revenue recognition, and how to apply accounting principles across systems and processes
• Hands-on exposure to financial systems like NetSuite, Orb, or Zuora, and confidence working with large datasets in tools like Excel or Snowflake
• Proven ability to adapt in high-growth, evolving environments, bringing structure without overengineering and helping the business scale efficiently
• Experience documenting accounting policies, maintaining internal controls, and contributing to audit readiness
• Curiosity and systems thinking: interested in learning how tools, workflows, and even lightweight internal app-building can drive business impact
• A collaborative and proactive working style, with a track record of partnering cross-functionally to support deal structure, billing, and revenue processes
• A thoughtful approach to leadership and able to build and support inclusive, high-performing teams while operating independently when needed

Responsibilities

• Own and manage all compliance-related functions, including payroll, procurement, billing, collections, tax, treasury, and audit, ensuring rigorous adherence to evolving standards
• Partner cross-functionally with teams like Sales, Customer Success, Procurement, and RevOps to proactively support contract structure, billing, and revenue processes with clarity and accountability
• Prepare and review financial reports, including statutory filings, while building collaborative relationships with external auditors and internal teams across regions
• Identify opportunities to streamline finance workflows through tooling, lightweight internal app development, or AI-powered solutions, bringing a curious and systems-minded approach to how we scale
• Drive scalable, inclusive process improvements across the order-to-cash and payables cycles, balancing structure with flexibility to meet the needs of a high-volume, product-led SaaS environment
• Leverage and adapt financial systems such as NetSuite, Orb, and Airbase, with openness to exploring new tools or building lightweight internal applications to reduce manual work and increase efficiency
• Maintain audit readiness and ongoing compliance with evolving US GAAP, tax, and jurisdictional standards, helping ensure financial integrity and operational clarity
• Contribute to strategic initiatives, including tooling evaluations and deeper use of systems like Snowflake to support thoughtful, data-informed decision-making
• Foster a culture of curiosity and continuous learning, surfacing insights from customer and transactional data, identifying trends, and collaborating on solutions that help move the business forward
• Collaborate closely with the CFO and cross-functional teams to drive finance transformation, focusing on improving workflows, implementing systems, and advancing automation in an inclusive and scalable way

Benefits

• Robust benefits
• Participation in Netlify’s equity plan
• Incentive pay/commission for eligible roles