About the Opportunity:

The developer landscape is changing from 17 million technical developers to 3 billion people using Agents to build apps and sites. Netlify is positioned at the center of this shift, and we’re building a world-class finance function that not only meets compliance requirements but also fuels company-wide insights and efficiency.

Netlify’s Finance & Accounting team plays a pivotal role in enabling strategic decision-making and long-term growth. As stewards of financial integrity, the team ensures accurate reporting, scalable systems, and operational excellence. The Controller role exists to support this transformation: leading key accounting processes, collaborating cross-functionally, and helping drive our path to audit readiness and financial maturity.

What You’ll Do:

Own and manage all compliance-related functions, including payroll, procurement, billing, collections, tax, treasury, and audit, ensuring rigorous adherence to evolving standards.
Partner cross-functionally with teams like Sales, Customer Success, Procurement, and RevOps to proactively support contract structure, billing, and revenue processes with clarity and accountability.
Prepare and review financial reports, including statutory filings, while building collaborative relationships with external auditors and internal teams across regions.
Identify opportunities to streamline finance workflows through tooling, lightweight internal app development, or AI-powered solutions, bringing a curious and systems-minded approach to how we scale
Drive scalable, inclusive process improvements across the order-to-cash and payables cycles, balancing structure with flexibility to meet the needs of a high-volume, product-led SaaS environment.
Leverage and adapt financial systems such as NetSuite, Orb, and Airbase, with openness to exploring new tools or building lightweight internal applications to reduce manual work and increase efficiency.
Maintain audit readiness and ongoing compliance with evolving US GAAP, tax, and jurisdictional standards, helping ensure financial integrity and operational clarity.
Contribute to strategic initiatives, including tooling evaluations and deeper use of systems like Snowflake to support thoughtful, data-informed decision-making.
Foster a culture of curiosity and continuous learning, surfacing insights from customer and transactional data, identifying trends, and collaborating on solutions that help move the business forward.
Collaborate closely with the CFO and cross-functional teams to drive finance transformation, focusing on improving workflows, implementing systems, and advancing automation in an inclusive and scalable way.

What You'll Bring:

Meaningful accounting leadership experience, ideally blending public accounting and in-house operational roles at high-transaction, product-led SaaS companies
Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP, tax compliance, revenue recognition, and how to apply accounting principles across systems and processes
Hands-on exposure to financial systems like NetSuite, Orb, or Zuora, and confidence working with large datasets in tools like Excel or Snowflake
Proven ability to adapt in high-growth, evolving environments, bringing structure without overengineering and helping the business scale efficiently
Experience documenting accounting policies, maintaining internal controls, and contributing to audit readiness
Curiosity and systems thinking: interested in learning how tools, workflows, and even lightweight internal app-building can drive business impact
A collaborative and proactive working style, with a track record of partnering cross-functionally to support deal structure, billing, and revenue processes
A thoughtful approach to leadership and able to build and support inclusive, high-performing teams while operating independently when needed
We welcome candidates based in North America for this position

This Role is a Great Fit If:

You’re energized by building and refining, whether it’s improving workflows, evolving systems, or documenting processes that help others move faster
You enjoy applying your accounting expertise to new and nuanced challenges, especially in a product-led, high-volume environment
You’re excited by the potential of AI and internal app-building, and you see opportunities to experiment with automation or lightweight tools to reduce friction
You feel confident navigating ambiguity and are excited to help shape how things are done
You’re naturally curious and motivated to learn, especially when it comes to systems, tooling, and understanding how things connect across the business
You thrive in collaborative environments and enjoy building relationships across teams like Sales, Customer Success, and RevOps
You’re drawn to roles where finance plays a strategic role, not just one that reports the numbers
You prefer working with a team that supports one another, shares wins, and believes in progress over perfection

Applying

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Controller

Anywhere in the world

Remote

Senior

Netlify