Accounting & Controls Manager

🕒 August 5

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🧾 Accounting Manager

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Forum Ventures

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2014

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Consulting • Marketing • Artificial Intelligence

Forum Ventures is a founder-first venture studio, accelerator, and pre-seed fund committed to building successful B2B SaaS companies. They engage with startups from inception, providing a unique support system by becoming an integral part of the founding team. Their expertise lies in AI-driven startup development, with a focus on early go-to-market strategies and fundraising. By leveraging a deep network and years of experience, Forum Ventures helps early-stage founders achieve significant traction and secure substantial funding. They provide a robust community of over 900 B2B SaaS founders, offering unparalleled support and resources to navigate the entrepreneurial journey from zero to one.

📋 Description

• Own the monthly close, including the close calendar, journal entries, accruals, reconciliations, flux review, and reconciled financial statements • Investigate and explain key financial variances • Maintain AP and AR workflows, bill processing, billing, cash application, expense management, and hands-on bookkeeping • Own inventory accounting for physical metal, including cost per pound, inventory GL integrity, and operating-platform-to-ledger reconciliations • Reconcile bank accounts, monitor daily cash activity, prepare weekly borrowing base certificates, and facilitate banking transactions • Own payroll accounting and related accruals, reconcile payroll liability and benefits accounts, and coordinate tax filings, payments, and exemption compliance • Develop, implement, and enforce accounting policies, approval thresholds, segregation of duties, and audit-ready workpapers • Serve as primary contact for external auditors and banks • Operate QuickBooks Online, Ramp, bill-pay, and related integrations • Lead ERP evaluation and migration when needed • Supervise and extend AI automation across AP, AR, and close workflows

🎯 Requirements

• 5–10 years of progressive accounting experience • Full ownership of a monthly close, including calendar, entries, reconciliations, and deadlines • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance required • CPA strongly preferred • Working knowledge of accruals, cutoffs, revenue recognition, inventory/COGS accounting, and internal controls • Controller-level judgment with willingness to perform hands-on bookkeeping • Deep QuickBooks Online or equivalent ERP skills • Comfort with integrated fintech stacks such as Ramp and bill-pay tools • Detail-oriented and disciplined with tie-outs and deadlines • Comfortable building processes and SOPs in an ambiguous startup environment

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity in a high-growth company • Title trajectory to Controller as the company scales • Opportunity to build the accounting function from scratch • Work with AI and technology as a competitive advantage