Controller, LiveFlow
Automating financial workflows
Open for applications
Automating financial workflows
21-100 employees
Open for applications
21-100 employees
Company mission
To empower people to build their own financial platforms for better efficiency and clarity.
Role
Who you are
- Qualified accountant (CPA, ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
- Experienced with managing multi-entity accounting, consolidations, and cross-border compliance (US + UK)
- 5–7 years of progressive accounting experience, including time in public accounting (Big 4 or similar) and high-growth Startups/SaaS
- Proven ability to take ownership and make judgment calls without heavy oversight
- A track record of going above and beyond to ensure accuracy and compliance
- Comfortable with personally closing the books in a lean team environment
- Excited to establish processes, controls, and systems from the ground up in a startup setting
- Extreme ambition: We look for people with an extreme level of personal ambition – those who don’t take no for an answer when faced with obstacles; those who break barriers; and those who redefine what’s possible
- Clarity of thought and clear communication: We seek people who excel at achieving clarity of thought. Clarity of thought and clear communication go hand in hand — without clear thinking, it’s impossible to communicate clearly
- Ability to learn fast: We value people who learn quickly and take the initiative to explore new areas of knowledge
- Curiosity: We seek people who are naturally curious about the world and how things work – those who ask thoughtful, challenging questions and aren’t afraid to question the status quo
- High work ethic & ownership: We look for people recognized for a high work ethic and ownership. We believe extraordinary results are never the product of mediocre effort
What the job involves
- We’re hiring our first Financial Controller to own and elevate our accounting operations across both our US and UK entities
- You’ll take full ownership of our books end-to-end and establish world-class accounting standards that ensure accuracy, compliance, and top-notch reporting
- You’ll design scalable processes, oversee multi-entity consolidation, and guide us toward best-in-class practices as we continue to grow internationally
- You won’t just run our finance operations—you’ll also help us build the product you’ve always wished existed
- As a Controller at LiveFlow, you’ll collaborate directly with our product team, shaping tools built for finance leaders like yourself
- Your insight will help us create a world-class Accounting & Finance platform that solves real problems for professionals in your seat
- This is a chance to go beyond traditional finance—to expand your skills into product development, influence design decisions, and help redefine how finance teams operate at scale
- Finally, this role reports directly to Lasse Kalkar, our CEO & Founder
- Own the books – You'll lead the accuracy and timeliness of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial closes for US and UK entities, with full responsibility for GAAP compliance
- Establish policies & processes – Create and maintain internal documentation for accounting policies, controls, and business processes
- Deliver consolidated reporting – Prepare monthly consolidated management accounts (P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow), ensuring accurate eliminations, FX translation, and insightful commentary. Thankfully, we’ve already built an amazing Consolidation product that helps you automate this!
- Help us shape our own Finance & Accounting product – Provide accounting and compliance expertise to influence LiveFlow’s product design, ensuring we build products that finance leaders trust and love
- Partner with leadership – Deliver clear financial insights and reporting to guide strategic decision-making, fundraising, and company growth
Our take
Excel represents an essential tool used by finance professionals every day. According to LiveFlow, even though Excel was widely used in finance for the past 30 years, it's a standard tool that did not improve in time, thus it failed to adapt to the increasingly complex needs of finance professionals. The company aims to solve this problem by creating a modern Financial Management tool that aims to serve the needs of modern finance teams.
The founders first came up with the idea for LiveFlow after co-founder, Lasse, went bankrupt running his first business. Aiming to stop any other business having the same fate, LiveFlow was launched to ensure that clients have access to all of their financial information in one place.
The company differentiates itself through its proprietary technology that allows spreadsheets to automatically connect to the real-time data of users from Google Sheets, banks, and accounting platforms. LiveFlow already counts Nova Credit, Unfurl, Gorgias, and Olaf among its clients. Having closed a seed round in 2022, it continues to build a strong customer base.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2024
$13.5m
SERIES A
Oct 2022
$3.8m
SEED
Total funding: $21m
Company benefits
- Competitive base salary + commission
- Substantial equity package
- Unlimited vacation/paid time off
- Health and dental insurance
- 401(k)
- All the latest tech you need; MacBooks, monitors, etc
- Monthly budget to spend on books and conferences to keep learning
Company HQ
NoMad, New York, NY
Leadership
Anita Koimur
(COO)Before starting LiveFlow, they were in charge of Business Development at Revolut Rewards. They led the product rollout to 13 markets across EMEA, US, and APAC.
Lasse Kalkar
(CEO)They were the Head of Growth, Nordics at Revolut where they led Growth and Market launches in the Nordics. They also built a VC-backed robo-advisory investment app.
Evan O'Brien
(CTO)They were a Staff Software Engineer at WebSummit and built the whole WebSummit Virtual platform within 3 months of 2020 that hosted 50,000 live users.
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