Controller

🕒 July 22

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $190k - $230k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⛔️ Financial Controller

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Starface World

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2019

💄 Beauty

🛍️ eCommerce

🛒 Retail

💰 Venture Round on 2021-01

Beauty • eCommerce • Retail

Starface World is a company dedicated to transforming skincare into a fun and expressive experience. They offer a range of dermatologist-approved, vegan, and cruelty-free skincare products designed to treat breakouts in a creative way. Starface's product lineup includes cute and colorful hydrocolloid pimple patches, like the Hydro-Stars and special editions with salicylic acid to unclog pores. This brand focuses on self-expression and self-care, turning skincare routines into moments of positivity and playfulness.

📋 Description

• Lead the full accounting function, including monthly close, general ledger, reconciliations, financial reporting, consolidation, accounts payable, accounts receivable, inventory accounting, and technical accounting • Assess the current state of the function, team, systems, open workstreams, and key risks • Identify opportunities to improve accuracy, accountability, and efficiency • Bring outstanding audits, covenant reporting, reconciliations, tax-related workstreams, and other external deliverables current • Establish a reliable, well-controlled close process with clear timelines, ownership, documentation, and reporting standards • Lead relationships with external auditors, accountants, tax advisors, and other partners • Serve as Starface’s primary accounting subject-matter expert and point of accountability • Build and execute a roadmap for improving accounting processes, controls, systems, documentation, and team structure • Own accounting systems and tools, including NetSuite • Partner with Operations and Systems on accurate and efficient financial processes • Evaluate team structure, capabilities, and capacity; develop talent and recommend future hiring priorities • Manage and coach the accounting team • Partner with the SVP of Finance on priorities, risks, decisions, and executive leadership and Board communications • Strengthen readiness for financing, investment, diligence, or M&A activity • Identify issues early, communicate them clearly, and recommend paths to resolution • Balance financial discipline with the speed and flexibility of a fast-growing business

🎯 Requirements

• Significant progressive accounting experience, ideally including experience as a Controller or Head of Accounting • Experience leading or materially improving an accounting function within a growing, changing, or operationally complex organization • Experience in consumer products, retail, beauty, apparel, food and beverage, or another inventory-based business • Experience supporting a financing, investment, acquisition, sale process, or other major transaction • Strong knowledge of inventory accounting, revenue recognition, accruals, financial reporting, internal controls, and U.S. GAAP • Meaningful experience with NetSuite • Experience successfully leading external audits • Experience working through accounting backlogs and inherited challenges in a high-growth, fast-paced business • Ability to distinguish essential controls from appropriately lightweight processes • Ability to operate strategically while remaining close to the work • Ability to take ownership quickly, make informed decisions with incomplete information, and improve existing systems • Strong people leadership skills, including assessing talent, developing team members, and building an accounting organization • Proactive communication with senior leadership regarding progress, risks, tradeoffs, and next steps • Collaborative, low-ego approach and ability to build trust across Finance, Operations, Systems, and the broader organization • Located in the Eastern or Central time zone, or able to maintain substantial working-hour overlap with teams and partners across the U.S. and U.K. • A CPA and private equity backed company experience are strongly preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonus eligibility • Access to high-quality health care options • Access to a 401k with 5% employer match eligibility • 4 weeks of vacation plus up to 20 paid holidays • 12 weeks fully paid parental leave • 5 days of pet-ernity leave for pet adoption • Home office & internet supplement stipend • Annual learning & development stipend • Flexible Fridays, and Summer Fridays • Fully remote work environment