Financial Controller, Medal x General Intuition
$180-250k
Offers Equity
Social video platform for gaming
Job no longer available
Social video platform for gaming
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$180-250k
Offers Equity
101-200 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 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 provides a social platform for gaming video clips. It allows users to record and edit footage, make gaming memes, and share content with friends form one place. While the company competes with platform giants like Twitch, it stands out by being being specifically designed for gaming content. It also collects in-game data to mitigate cheating and cyberbullying, and integrates directly into any Windows or Android game.
In 2025, Medal spun out "General Intuition", and has since been hiring to both its own and the new company's team. General Intuition's mission is to build a new class of models that can perceive, predict and act in both virtual and physical environments. It is leveraging Medal's vast datasets to this end, reducing the limitations on machine intelligence by training AI on interaction and exploration rather than just written words.
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: $85.8m
Company HQ
Flatiron District, New York, NY
Additional info
- General Intuition is the frontier lab for acting in space and time, spun out of Medal in 2025. Find out more at www.generalintuition.com
Leadership
Iggy Harmsen
(Co-Founder & Product)Former COO/CCO/Finance for the company. Worked in CS and Marketing for Soulsplit from 2012 to 2015.
Ken Colton
(CEO)Joined the company as Lead Software Engineer in 2021, becoming CTO then President then CEO. Previously Lead Software Engineer at Gif Your Game, Technical Lead at Grubhub and CTO at Material World. Co-founded and was Front-End Lead at Twubs.
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