Assistant Controller

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

⛔️ Financial Controller

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The COOL Company

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

📣 Marketing

📱 Media

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 $5.2M Series A on 2017-08

Marketing • Media • Artificial Intelligence

The COOL Company is an AI-powered omnichannel advertising platform that unifies creative automation, dynamic creative optimization, media activation, and transparent measurement/attribution. It enables brands, agencies, publishers and franchise/local teams to generate and personalize creatives quickly, activate campaigns across CTV, display, search and social, and continuously optimize budgets, bids and creative assets using AI-driven insights and reporting to drive measurable performance and stronger ROAS.

📋 Description

• Lead day-to-day accounting operations and support timely and accurate monthly, quarterly, and annual close • Prepare and review consolidated financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP • Oversee accounting across multiple legal entities, business units, and currencies • Manage multi-entity consolidation and foreign currency accounting, including transaction remeasurement, balance sheet translation, intercompany activity, and related foreign exchange gains and losses • Oversee and review balance sheet reconciliations, journal entries, accruals, and other close activities • Oversee revenue recognition, accounts receivable, accounts payable, fixed assets, prepaid expenses, and other core accounting functions • Support accounting treatment and documentation for new, unusual, or complex business transactions • Maintain and improve the chart of accounts, accounting policies, close procedures, and financial reporting processes • Support annual audit and tax activities and work with external auditors, tax professionals, and other advisors • Help maintain and strengthen the internal control environment • Ensure accurate, consistent, documented, and timely financial reporting • Provide day-to-day leadership, coaching, and development to accounting and finance team members • Establish ownership, accountability, and performance expectations • Review team members' work while working directly in the details when necessary • Partner with the CFO on budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning • Support FP&A analyses, budget-to-actual reporting, variance analysis, revenue and margin analysis, and operating expense management • Develop, maintain, and monitor key financial and operating metrics • Translate financial results into insights for senior leadership • Identify financial trends, risks, and opportunities and communicate findings to the CFO • Support scenario modeling and strategic and operational business analyses • Continuously improve financial processes, systems, automation, and reporting • Support finance infrastructure for increasing transaction volume, geographic expansion, new products, and organizational growth • Identify opportunities to reduce manual processes, improve data quality, strengthen controls, and increase efficiency • Evaluate AI-enabled tools and automation for finance and accounting • Participate in or lead ERP implementation, optimization, integration, and enhancement projects • Partner with internal teams and external providers on financial system architecture, data flows, and integrations • Improve availability, consistency, and reliability of financial and operational data • Help establish scalable financial policies and procedures • Report to the CFO

🎯 Requirements

• 7–10+ years of progressive accounting and finance experience, including meaningful experience in a senior accounting, accounting manager, or Assistant Controller-level role • CPA preferred • Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field • Demonstrated experience with multi-entity consolidation and foreign currency accounting • Experience working in a startup, high-growth, or similarly fast-paced environment • Proven experience leading, developing, and managing accounting or finance team members • Experience managing or playing a significant leadership role in the monthly close and consolidated financial reporting process • Strong understanding of financial controls, audit requirements, and accounting policies • Ability to support and contribute to FP&A, financial metrics, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis • Strong Excel, financial systems, and data-analysis capabilities • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain financial concepts to both financial and non-financial stakeholders • Highly organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable managing multiple priorities and deadlines • Demonstrated ability to identify problems, develop practical solutions, and drive projects through completion • A hands-on mindset and willingness to work directly in the details when necessary • Experience with multi-entity consolidations, intercompany accounting, FX remeasurement and translation, and international operations • Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP and demonstrated technical accounting capabilities • Proven ability to lead, coach, develop, and hold accounting team members accountable • Ability to understand variance analysis, margins, forecasts, KPIs, and underlying business drivers • Strong ERP capabilities and willingness to use automation, integrations, data tools, and AI to improve Finance • Must be able to work primarily between the hours of 9:30 AM - 6:30 PM ET • Must have a player/coach mentality, willing to both execute and lead • Ability to juggle multiple projects concurrently and set and meet deadlines • Skilled at receiving and providing direct feedback • Collaborative mindset and great teamwork skills • Entrepreneurial and adaptable; great learning skills • Curious, research-minded, data-informed • Able to search for possible solutions and apply them • Creative confidence • Proactive communicator • A sense of humour and a love of online culture • Thrives in a start-up culture

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive Salary • Annual Performance Bonus • Paid Time Off • Flexible work schedule