Financial Controller, Medal.tv
$120-190k
Social platform for short-form gaming video clips
Be an early applicant
Social platform for short-form gaming video clips
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$120-190k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To connect people by creating memories while they are physically apart!
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of accounting experience, including Big 4 or public accounting exposure
- Deep expertise in US GAAP and financial statement preparation
- Hands-on experience with US and international tax, including compliance and planning
- Experience managing audits, multi-entity structures, and complex reconciliations
- Extreme attention to detail and a passion for getting the numbers exactly right
- Ability to work autonomously and thrive in a fast-paced startup environment
- Familiarity with modern accounting tools
- Experience at a startup where you built processes from scratch is preferred
- Strong analytical skills and willingness to dive into the weeds when needed
- Comfort with ambiguity and rapidly changing priorities
What the job involves
- As the Financial Controller, you will own Medal’s US accounting, reporting, and compliance functions end-to-end. This role is perfect for someone who excels at financial multitasking—from day-to-day bookkeeping to technical GAAP decisions, tax filings, audits, and building processes that make the company more efficient every quarter
- You should be equally comfortable diving deep into spreadsheets and ledgers, automating workflows, leading month-end close, coordinating with external auditors, and ensuring spotless compliance across multiple jurisdictions
- We’re looking for someone with insane attention to detail, mastery of US GAAP, and strong international and US tax knowledge—someone who will raise the bar for quality while helping us move quickly
- Accounting & GAAP Ownership:
- Own and maintain Medal’s general ledger in accordance with US GAAP
- Manage the monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes with precision and speed
- Develop, document, and refine accounting policies and internal controls
- Reconcile and maintain all financial accounts—revenue, expenses, payroll, deferred revenue, etc
- Ensure accurate recognition of revenue, capitalization, accruals, and expense classification
- Tax, Compliance & Payroll:
- Manage US federal and state corporate taxes, including quarterly estimates, filings, and planning
- Oversee international tax compliance, including cross-border entity structures, and transfer pricing coordination
- Own payroll compliance, including payroll taxes, filings, and working with PEOs/providers
- Coordinate with external tax advisors and ensure timely, accurate filings across all jurisdictions
- Keep up with regulatory changes and proactively adjust systems and processes
- Financial Reporting & Audit Management:
- Prepare internal reporting, management dashboards, financial packages, and variance analyses
- Support external reporting, investor updates, audit preparation, and due diligence requests
- Lead annual financial statements preparation and coordinate external audits and reviews
- Deliver clean, timely financials that support strategic decision-making
- Process Innovation & Operational Excellence:
- Build and optimize scalable financial processes across accounting, billing, payroll, and reporting
- Automate wherever possible—bring creativity to eliminate manual work and reduce error risk
- Evaluate and implement financial systems, tools, and workflows
- Collaborate across teams to support growth and efficiency
Our take
Video games have become highly social experiences due to multiplayer gaming, eSports, and social media, spawning a huge market for audiences who enjoy watching gaming-related video content. Gamers commonly stream games and edit the footage to produce memes and engage with friends, but this requires many software tools and a separate platform on which to share experiences.
Medal.tv provides a social platform for gaming video clips, allowing users to record and edit footage, make gaming memes, and share content with friends within the same software. The platform collects in-game data to mitigate cheating and cyberbullying and integrates directly into any Windows or Android game.
Whilst the company will face great competition from platform giants such as Youtube, TikTok, and Twitch, Medal.tv shows the potential to stand out by being specifically designed for gaming content. Furthermore, the platform’s accessible video capturing and editing interface keeps the end-to-end social gaming experience within the same platform, making it more convenient and immersive for gamers than on other platforms.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2024
$13m
LATE VC
Dec 2021
$45m
SERIES C
Total funding: $86m
Company HQ
Naarden, Netherlands
Leadership
Pim de Witte
(Co-Founder & CEO)Co-founder and CEO of Highlight. Experience as Founder, CEO & CTO of Soulsplit from 2009 to 2014. Software Engineer and Product Manager for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) from 2014 to 2017.
Joshua Lipson
(Co-Founder & Chief Architect)Co-founder and Chief Architect at Highlight. Full Stack Developer and CTO of Soulsplit from 2013 to 2015.
Iggy Harmsen
(Co-Founder & Product Design)Worked in CS & Marketing for Soulsplit from 2012 to 2015.
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