CONTROLLER
- San Francisco, CA
- Accounting department
Alice helps small business owners launch and grow. Since launching in May 2017, our goal is to help 6 million owners succeed through our free digital platform,
HelloAlice.com. Alice serves all entrepreneurs and we wholeheartedly believe that if underserved business owners -- women, people of color, veterans, the LGBTQ+ community, entrepreneurs with disabilities, people in small towns, and immigrants -- are provided better access to resources, they can change the world. Our vision is to be financially successful while making a positive impact on economies and job creation.
Alice is growing a diverse team, and we’re looking for a Controller to help us fulfill our mission of connecting all entrepreneurs to the resources they need to grow and scale their businesses. We’re leading a movement to connect every founder, regardless of geography, capitalization, prior experience, or cultural constraints, to the experts, tools, knowledge, and communities that will propel their companies forward. Alice is a Series A-backed company with teams in Houston, TX and San Francisco, CA. We are helping hundreds of thousands of owners a week in all fifty states. Led by co-founders Elizabeth Gore and Carolyn Rodz, we are hiring self-starters who can build the plane while flying it.
If you are a financial expert who lives in San Francisco, and who’s passionate about financial forecasting, Excel shortcuts, and cringes at the site of a circular reference, send us your resume! You’ll be responsible for building and managing budgets, leading hiring plans, managing cash flows, driving our pricing model… the list goes on and on. We’re looking for an experienced controller responsible for managing our monthly close, and meeting the reporting needs of our leadership, board of advisors, and investors. If you like to work hard and you never shy away from a challenge, and you like to have fun in a supportive and collaborative environment, you belong on Team Alice.
Required Skills/Experiences:
- Month-end close process
- Financial modeling
- Establish and maintain accounting policies and practices consistent with GAAP
- Budget creation and management
- Financial statements and supporting analysis preparation
- Accounts payable and receivable management
- State and federal tax compliance and filings (working alongside accounting firm)
- Cash management
- Lease management
- Team hiring plans and recruiting assistance
- Team expense management, policies, and process documentation
- Financial analyses and reporting for quarterly board meetings
- Develop operational practices and organizational footprint to support business growth, including regional expansion
- Work with Sales team to create and implement commission and bonus plans
- Manage payroll provider relationship and ensure timely delivery of bi-weekly payroll
- Assess annual benefits package
- Manage company insurance policies
You’d be the perfect fit if:
- You thrive in a fast-paced startup environment, aka you can roll with fast deadlines
- You have 3-5 years of general accounting, preferable with experience in a startup environment or Big 4 accounting firm
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance or business administration, or equivalent business experience
- CPA designation desirable
- Consumer technology experience beneficial
- Experience with Quickbooks
- Team player and ability to establish strong relationships across the organization
- Intellectually curious, proactive and detail-oriented, with an eye toward the bigger picture
Our company values are important to us. We thought we would share them with you as someone interested in joining our team.
INNOVATE ALWAYS. Seek out unique perspectives, diverse experiences, and disconnected dots. These are the seeds of big ideas and exceeded expectations, made even better through constant collaboration.
EMBRACE FAILURE. Learn from the inevitable failures that result from innovation, and move forward quickly with a pioneering spirit. Champion the doers, celebrate their contributions to the team, and don't shy away from difficult conversations.
DRIVE THE MISSION FORWARD. Everything we do is through the inclusive lens of helping all business owners launch and grow, regardless of who they are or where they come from. Hold yourself to the highest standards of quality and equality in everything you do.
EVERYONE TAKES OUT THE TRASH. No task is too small for the success of our company or our owners. Always be thoughtful and practice extreme kindness toward our team, partners, and owners.
SIMPLIFY AND COMMIT. Maintain a bias toward efficiency, acting quickly and testing often. Recognize the opportunity cost of every decision, commit to deadlines, be on time, and search for simple, smart solutions.
Alice is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that will consider all qualified applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, national origin, genetics, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.