Global Controller

Join our fast-paced startup as the Global Controller, where you'll be responsible for all aspects of US accounting, reporting, and compliance. You'll lead the month-end close, automate workflows, and coordinate audits across multiple jurisdictions. This role requires a deep understanding of US GAAP, international tax, and a strong attention to detail. You will also build and automate scalable finance processes and own the general ledger and payroll compliance.

As Global Controller, you will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of US accounting, reporting, and compliance, including day-to-day bookkeeping, technical GAAP calls, tax filings, and audits.

About Medal.tv

You bring 10-15 years including Big 4 / public accounting, deep US GAAP and financial-statement expertise, and hands-on US + international tax across multi-entity structures and complex reconciliations

Responsibilities

• You will lead the month-end close process, automate workflows, and coordinate auditors across multiple jurisdictions, ensuring accuracy and compliance with US GAAP and international tax regulations.
• You will build and automate scalable finance processes across accounting, billing, payroll, and reporting, leveraging modern AI tooling to improve efficiency and reduce error risk.
• You run US federal and state corporate tax plus international tax - quarterly estimates, filings, cross-border entity structures, and transfer pricing - coordinating external advisors and staying ahead of regulatory change
• You lead audits and reporting - annual financial statements, audit prep, investor updates and due diligence, plus the management dashboards and variance analyses behind strategic decisions
• You build and automate scalable finance processes across accounting, billing, payroll, and reporting - an AI-native operator who uses modern AI tooling to kill manual work and error risk, excited to build a lean, heavily automated finance function
• You own the general ledger and the monthly, quarterly, and annual close in US GAAP - revenue recognition, accruals, capitalization, and reconciliations - fast and precise, with the policies and internal controls to back it

Requirements

• You own payroll compliance - payroll taxes, filings, and the PEO/provider relationship

Pay

USD 180,000 - 250,000

Benefits

• You thrive autonomously in a fast-paced startup - comfortable with ambiguity, extreme attention to detail, happy in the weeds. Bonus: you've stood up a finance function from scratch