Controller

**About F2** F2 is the AI platform for private markets investors — purpose-built to transform how institutional teams underwrite, diligence, and deploy capital. Our AI converts messy, unstructured deal materials into investment-grade insights in minutes, helping private credit funds, commercial banks, and private equity firms make faster, more confident decisions. Backed by leading investors, including NFX and Y Combinator, we're scaling a world-class product and engineering team to build the future of vertical AI for finance. We are scaling quickly across our offices in New York, San Francisco, and London. **Role Overview** We're hiring our first in-house Controller to own accounting and build the financial backbone of F2. Partnering with our outsourced accounting team, you'll run a clean, timely close and take full ownership of our accounting systems, controls, and reporting as we scale. This is an operator's seat, not a caretaker's. You'll design a scalable accounting and controls process from the ground up — leveraging AI and modern tooling to keep the function lean as we grow — while also supporting FP&A and budgeting. It's the right role for someone who has built accounting infrastructure in a high-growth startup, is energized by AI-native finance tools, and wants a clear path to grow into an accounting and finance leadership role. **What You'll Do** - Own the month-end and quarter-end close in partnership with our outsourced accounting team — general ledger, journal entries, accruals, and reconciliations — delivering clean, final numbers on a predictable calendar. - Own our accounting systems and processes end-to-end, including our ERP (Rillet), expense management (Ramp), and payroll tooling. - Own and maintain the chart of accounts, and build the processes for expense management and record-keeping that keep it clean. - Ensure transactions are coded correctly all the way through the financials — from expense capture in Ramp to the general ledger. - Design accounting and control processes that scale with headcount and volume, leveraging AI and automation to streamline close, reconciliations, and reporting. - Own revenue recognition, AP/AR, payroll, and expense management, and establish financial controls appropriate to our stage. - Own tax coordination, statutory filings, and audit readiness so every future raise and eventual audit is clean. - Support FP&A and budgeting — budget-vs-actuals, departmental spend tracking, and clean historical actuals that feed planning. - Track cash and burn as the source of truth on our runway, and produce the financials and KPIs used in leadership reporting. - Direct and quality-check the outsourced accounting team, deciding over time what stays outsourced versus comes in-house as we grow. **You Might Be a Great Fit If** - You have 4+ years of progressive accounting experience, including ownership of a monthly close. - You are a CPA. - You've worked inside a venture-backed startup or SaaS company and understand its pace and priorities. - You're comfortable being the sole in-house accountant while directing an outsourced team — you operate independently and set your own standards. - You have an automation-first mindset and are genuinely excited to use AI and modern tools to build lean, scalable processes. - You have a strong command of GAAP and financial controls, plus solid Excel and financial-modeling fundamentals. - You communicate clearly and can hand off clean numbers and explain them to non-finance leaders. - You move quickly, operate with precision, and thrive in ambiguity. - You are energized by AI, private markets, and the chance to help build a category-defining company. **Preferred Qualifications** - AI-native FinOps experience — building and running finance operations on AI-first tooling (a big plus). - Experience with a modern / AI-native ERP (we use Rillet) and spend tools like Ramp. - Experience managing or supporting FP&A for early stage ventures - Hands-on software revenu…