Controller

Summary

Join Trellis, a thriving Series A startup, as their experienced Controller. You will spearhead the company's financial accounting and operations, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and strategic financial insights. This high-ownership role demands day-to-day accounting management, financial reporting, and compliance adherence. You will also play a key role in budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning, leveraging your expertise to optimize cash management and working capital. Collaboration with financial leadership and outsourced bookkeepers is essential. Trellis offers a remote work environment, competitive compensation, and growth opportunities.

Requirements

• Minimum 6 years professional experience
• CPA designation
• Professional accounting firm experience
• Experience in a mid- to senior-level accounting role at a high growth operating company (ideally you are already a controller in a similar environment)
• Independently led an audit or QoE process for a private company
• Had exposure to multi-entity accounting, ideally having worked directly in a business with multiple entities and intercompany cash requirements
• Analytical horsepower to interpret our financials to understand key drivers and changes in our business
• Strategic business acumen to identify opportunities for improvement in our business
• Ability to independently craft work plans and execute against them for 3-4 weeks at a time
• Low ego and a willingness to roll up your sleeves

Responsibilities

• Orchestrate and manage financial operations and processes that are accurate, simple and seamless
• Refine Trellis’ accounting practices, policies and procedures to maintain compliance with financial reporting standards and keep a generally pristine set of books
• Deliver highly accurate, timely and insightful financial reporting
• Support the budgeting, forecasting and financial planning processes
• Upgrade Trellis’ cash management, liquidity and working capital practices, transforming them into a strategic lever for the business
• Run point on any audits or quality of earnings assessments
• Ensure the business is compliant with all tax requirements, and deliver strategies for effectively managing our tax liabilities

Preferred Qualifications

• Been through an M&A process (not a hard requirement)
• Had exposure to insurance technology in another role

Benefits

• Flat, collaborative, transparent culture; get in at the ground floor and be a true business partner
• Opportunities for growth and development within your role and all areas of the organization
• 75th-percentile (competitive!) compensation
• 100% remote work environment
• Quarterly, fun team bonding events
• Unlimited vacation time
• 100% employer-paid Platinum-tier health insurance for employee, 65% for dependents
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• Bonuses and equity opportunities
• Budget for home office equipment