Controller

The Role Pilot just shipped Meridian , the AI platform that closes the books end to end. We built it and ran it across 8,000+ businesses and 187,000+ months of close before we sold it to anyone. As our Controller, you'll run accounting at the company defining what AI-native finance & accounting looks like. AI handles the number-crunching now. Your domain is the plumbing underneath it: the registers, the syncs between systems, the close process itself. AI is only as good as the process it runs on, and you'll own that process. With a small team, this is a player-coach role. You'll own accounting operations and develop the team, designing the close, controls, and systems a modern finance org runs on, and you'll be hands-on in the close itself, down to completing reconciliations and posting journal entries if necessary, while you set the direction. You're the accounting expert leadership trusts to make the call, and the partner other teams come to when they need finance to move with them. You will report to the CFO. Key Responsibilities Own the monthly close, compliance, audit, revenue, AP/AR, treasury, and payroll. You are accountable for getting it right and on time. Lead the existing accounting team and grow it. You'll develop the people here, shape who we hire and how the team works. You're in the details: completing reconciliations, posting journal entries, and managing the c...