Corporate Controller
San Francisco, CA$280k - $325kFull-timePosted 3w ago
About the role
Corporate Controller at Gimlet Labs responsible for owning the accounting and financial operations foundation, including close, reporting, technical accounting, audit, payroll, equity administration, cash management, procurement, AP, billing, and collections, with a focus on building scalable processes and systems for rapid growth toward public-company readiness.
Responsibilities
- Own Gimlet's monthly, quarterly, and annual close across a growing multi-entity organization, improving the speed and reliability of financial reporting.
- Lead consolidations and accounting across corporate entities and SPVs, partnering with Finance, Tax, Treasury, and Legal on complex transactions.
- Own technical accounting across revenue recognition, leases, fixed assets, stock-based compensation, and complex commercial arrangements.
- Lead external audits and build the policies, controls, and operating discipline required as Gimlet moves toward public-company readiness.
- Own Financial Operations across payroll, equity administration, cash operations, procurement, AP, billing, collections, and AR.
- Build scalable billing and collections processes as Gimlet introduces increasingly complex commercial and usage-based pricing models.
- Partner with Commerce and Engineering to translate how Gimlet's products are priced and consumed into reliable billing, accounting, and financial operations.
- Own and evolve Gimlet's accounting technology stack, including ERP implementation and adjacent financial systems.
- Use automation and AI to eliminate repetitive work and improve the team's efficiency and accuracy.
- Proactively evaluate material contracts and new business arrangements for accounting and operational implications.
- Build and develop the Accounting and Financial Operations organization as Gimlet scales.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of progressive accounting experience with meaningful ownership of Accounting and Financial Operations.
- Operated as a Controller, Assistant Controller with significant ownership, or equivalent accounting leader inside a rapidly scaling company.
- Experience building an accounting function through meaningful private-company growth rather than only operating mature processes.
- Deep, current US GAAP expertise across revenue recognition, fixed assets, leases, stock-based compensation, and complex commercial arrangements.
- Personally owned a full close and consolidation across multiple legal entities.
- Hands-on experience across payroll, equity administration, AP, billing, collections, and cash operations.
- Led external audits and helped build the systems, controls, and policies required for increasing audit and public-company readiness.
- Experience implementing or scaling an ERP and surrounding financial systems.
- Strong cross-functional judgment and the ability to communicate complex accounting issues clearly to non-accountants.
- The ability to operate independently at high volume and build the processes you wish existed.
Skills
Required:US GAAPClose and ConsolidationsERP systemsFinancial Operations
Last updated Oct 4, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Gimlet Labs
Gimlet Labs
Gimlet Labs is an applied research lab focused on building high performance AI systems.
Autonomous kernel generation for heterogeneous hardwareCost-aware optimization frameworks for AI workloadsGimlet cloudHeadless hardware architectures for serving AI inferenceHybrid edge/cloud workload partitioning and orchestrationSLA-aware dynamic datacenter scheduling of AI agent workloadsUniversal AI compiler for heterogeneous hardwarebessemer-ai-infrastructure-2026
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