Controller, Workstream
$150-180k
Salary range applies to San Francisco; + Equity + Discretionary bonus
More information about location
5 days a week in office
Hourly worker recruitment platform
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Hourly worker recruitment platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$150-180k
Salary range applies to San Francisco; + Equity + Discretionary bonus
More information about location
5 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help businesses hire faster and smarter, so they can focus on supporting their team and serving their customers.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of progressive accounting experience, including at least 5 years in startups or high-growth SaaS companies
- Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP, SaaS revenue recognition (ASC 606), and multi-entity consolidations
- Demonstrated success managing international accounting teams and coordinating with outsourced firms
- Hands-on leader who enjoys both execution and building scalable systems and processes
- Experience with ERP systems (QuickBooks, NetSuite, or modern AI-enabled ERP platforms)
- Prior experience supporting financial audits and preparing audit documentation
- Deep familiarity with tools across finance and operations, including:
- Payroll & HRIS: Rippling, ADP, Paylocity, Gusto, etc
- Payments & Expense Management: Concur, Expensify, Airbase, Bill.com, etc
- Productivity & Analytics: Google Workspace, Excel; nice-to-have: Tableau, Power BI, Looker, Salesforce, Jira, Asana, Mosaic
- Excellent communication, organizational, and analytical skills
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an experienced, hands-on Controller to lead Workstream’s accounting operations across the U.S., Canada, Singapore, and China. Reporting directly to the Head of Finance, you’ll own global consolidations, ensure GAAP-compliant reporting, strengthen internal controls, and prepare the company for future audits
- You’ll manage a 3-person accounting team based in Singapore and the Philippines, who currently own global payroll, accounts payable (AP), and accounts receivable (AR), along with oversight of multiple external accounting and bookkeeping firms supporting our international entities
- As Workstream scales, you’ll help expand the team—potentially hiring 1–2 additional roles within the next 12–18 months, with the opportunity to bring more functions in-house globally
- Lead accounting operations across U.S., Canada, Singapore, and China entities
- Manage the U.S. accounting close process and global consolidations
- Supervise a 3-person team in Singapore and the Philippines, and coordinate work across outsourced accounting partners
- Ensure timely and accurate financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP
- Lead the implementation of a next-generation ERP system (transitioning from QuickBooks to a scalable, potentially AI-enabled platform) over the next 12–18 months
- Own SaaS revenue recognition and ensure compliance with ASC 606
- Partner with Sales, Legal, and FP&A to validate contract structures, renewals, and billing for accurate revenue reporting
- Build scalable processes and documentation for order-to-cash workflows
- Oversee and grow the Order Management team as the company expands
- Maintain the integrity of the general ledger and chart of accounts
- Develop and enforce accounting policies and internal controls across all entities
- Partner with FP&A to provide accurate reporting and variance analysis
- Prepare audit-ready financial statements and documentation to support future external audits
- Identify and implement process improvements to streamline close cycles and improve accuracy
- Collaborate with Legal, People Ops, and Operations on payroll, tax, and entity management processes
- Support compliance with local statutory requirements in coordination with external advisors
- Partner cross-functionally to enhance systems integration between finance, HR, and sales systems
Our take
Recruiting new staff can be a time-consuming process for HR teams; requiring them to source, screen, and communicate with every potential candidate. Whilst the process has been made easier through online job boards, this has only led to larger pools of potential candidates, putting further pressure on the workload of recruiters.
Workstream provides an hourly worker recruitment platform, focused on automating digital communication and application management with candidates to reduce workloads for recruitment teams. The platform also allows users to post open roles to over 25,000 job boards at once, in addition to automating all paperwork workflows.
Whilst the prevalence of smart recruitment platforms will present difficult competition for Workstream, the company shows the potential to disrupt the market with its automated communication, paperwork, and mass job posting capabilities. It continues to launch new products and features - such as its multilingual and customizable AI chatbot - and has raised strong capital to support accelerated expansion and the broadening of product development.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2022
$60m
SERIES B
Aug 2021
$48m
SERIES B
Total funding: $118m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans
- Access to a generous number of fully-paid counseling sessions with licensed therapists every year
- Flexible PTO
- Paid parental leave
- Equity options
- Quarterly learning reimbursement that can be used toward continuing education, books, subscriptions and more
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Desmond Lim
(Co-Founder & CEO)Experience as Product Manager for WeChat. CEO and Co-founder of QuikForce from 2014 to 2016.
Max Wang
(Co-Founder & CTO)Experience as Software Engineer for Sinovation Ventures. Co-founder and CTO of VC.CN from 2011 to 2016.
Lei Xu
(Co-Founder)Worked on Revenue Acceleration and Software Engineering for Google from 2012 to 2015. Experience as Co-founder and CTO of Emote.
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