Corporate Controller, Modern Treasury
$180-230k
+ Equity
More information about location
Payment operations solutions
Open for applications
Payment operations solutions
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$180-230k
+ Equity
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To transform how teams mov and track money - to support impactful businesses rooted in trust and transparency.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of relevant accounting experience, including 3+ years in public accounting (Big 4 strongly preferred)
- 3+ years of experience in a fast-paced fintech or financial services environment, ideally in a company operating in or entering the flow of funds
- Strong understanding of US GAAP and financial reporting requirements
- Experience building and scaling accounting operations and ERP systems (e.g., NetSuite)
- Familiarity with money movement infrastructure, banking integrations, and funds flow accounting preferred
- Proven ability to hire, lead, and grow high-performing teams
- Excellent communication skills and comfort working cross-functionally
- CPA required
What the job involves
- We’re hiring a Corporate Controller to lead our accounting function and play a critical role in helping Modern Treasury scale into the flow of funds
- Reporting to the VP of Finance, you’ll be responsible for ensuring financial integrity, operational excellence, and regulatory readiness as we grow into a financial infrastructure provider
- This is a highly visible role that will require close collaboration across teams, especially as we deepen our integration into payment flows and financial systems
- Own and evolve all accounting operations including month-end close, payroll, accounts payable/receivable, T&E, billing, and collections
- Design and implement internal controls and policies aligned with operating in regulated financial flows
- Ensure compliance with GAAP and lead the preparation for annual audits and potential SOX readiness
- Work closely with Product, Engineering, and Compliance to align financial operations with money movement architecture and evolving regulatory requirements
- Lead accounting for money-in-transit (M-I-T), settlement cycles, reconciliation processes, and customer funds management
- Build scalable systems, reporting, and processes for fund flows across multiple banking partners and rails (ACH, RTP, wire, etc.)
- Manage relationships with external auditors and third-party vendors
- Hire and grow a high-performing accounting team
- Provide financial data and insights to business leaders to drive decision-making
- Partner cross-functionally to support customer onboarding, product launches, and risk mitigation strategies
- In your first week, you will:
- Onboard with our team and get immersed in our product and culture
- Meet key partners across Finance, Product, and Engineering
- Begin to understand our fund flows and reconciliation processes
- In your first month, you will:
- Take ownership of the monthly close process and accounting operations
- Start improving reporting accuracy and workflows
- Assess our existing accounting policies and systems
- In your first three months, you will:
- Oversee all aspects of corporate accounting and reporting
- Implement systems and processes for funds movement and reconciliation
- Build the foundations for regulatory audits and future controls
Our take
Modern Treasury is a fintech company looking to modernize legacy B2B banking by accelerating the pace of payments. Its payments operation software offers real-time transaction tracking and an API or dashboard to help companies manage payments from a single place. With approximately $120 trillion in B2B business payments processed annually globally, Modern Treasury is tapping into a huge market opportunity.
Key to the success of its offering has been to renovate legacy payment methods, such as checks. Its software significantly reduces the processing time required to carry out transactions - and is applicable across a broad swathe of high-value sectors like real estate, healthcare, and financial services.
With rapid market expansion and accelerating digital transformation, Modern Treasury has experienced impressive growth since its 2018 founding, quickly achieving Unicorn status. Partnerships with Metropolitan Commercial Banks and products like Global ACH highlight suits value and adept navigation of a growing customer base.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Mar 2022
$50m
SERIES C
Oct 2021
$85m
SERIES C
Total funding: $183.2m
Company HQ
Union Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Dimitri Dadiomov
(CEO)They studied at Stanford and Harvard, and have held senior positions at Foundation Capital and LendingHome.
Matt Marcus
(CPO)A Dartmouth graduate and former Y Combinator member, they previously worked at LendingHome as a Senior Software Engineer.
Sam Aarons
(CTO)They studied Computer Science at Columbia and were a Senior Software Engineer at LendingHome.
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