Basis
Controller
$200K–$250K
New York Office · Full-time · Posted Sep 1, 2026
- Experience
- 6–12 years of progressive accounting and finance experience.
About the job
Build and lead Basis’s accounting operations and financial systems, applying AI to improve the close, reporting, spend management, and other accounting workflows.
What you'll do
- Own accounting integrity and develop timely, clear understanding of company income and spending.
- Design and improve accounting workflows, systems, controls, and reporting, including AI-enabled processes.
- Partner with Product and Engineering to apply internal accounting experience to better systems and product insight.
What they ask for
- 6–12 years of progressive accounting and finance experience, including meaningful ownership of accounting operations at a high-growth company.
- Strong technical accounting knowledge across financial reporting, revenue recognition, accruals, capitalization, and equity.
- Ability to design and implement scalable workflows, reliable data, and controls, and perform detailed accounting work as needed.
- Strong analytical judgment and ability to explain financial changes and their business implications.
Nice to have
- Experience evolving an accounting function from founder-led or manual processes into a scalable, controlled function.
- Experience with variable technology costs or building spend, procurement, approval, vendor-management, cost-allocation, or expense systems.
Pay
$200K – $250K (base salary)
AI focus
Redesign accounting workflows to apply AI across close, reconciliations, spend monitoring, and reporting; determine where AI can perform work and where human review is needed, while keeping systems explainable and auditable.
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