Controller

altbanq•New York, NY

33d•$90,000 - $120,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Controller owns the day-to-day financial engine of altbanq - from daily collections and bank transfers to fund accounting, investor payments, and regulatory filings. This role is the connective tissue between accounting, operations, and compliance, ensuring that every dollar moving through the platform is accurate, timely, and properly recorded. Reporting directly into leadership, the Controller manages a high-volume, detail-intensive workload across billing, treasury, syndications, licensing, and bookkeeping. This person keeps the business compliant with state and federal lending regulators while also being a hands-on partner to the processing and operations teams.

Requirements

Strong accounting fundamentals — you're comfortable owning full-cycle bookkeeping across multiple accounts and entities.
High transaction-volume comfort — you can manage daily cash movement, funding, and repayments without losing accuracy.
Regulatory fluency — experience with state licensing, NMLS, or similar compliance filings is a major plus.
CRM proficiency — hands-on experience with Salesforce for deal and repayment tracking.
Discretion and integrity — you handle sensitive financial and investor data with professionalism.
Organizational rigor — you can juggle daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual deadlines without dropping a ball.
Proficiency with Salesforce, Excel, and business banking platforms.

Nice To Haves

Experience with NMLS filings, state lending licensure, or similar regulatory reporting is strongly preferred.
CPA or progress toward CPA is a plus, but not required.

Responsibilities

Review collections and cash position each morning, then execute bank transfers and fund new deals as needed.
Review and pay company invoices, watching for accuracy and opportunities to reduce operational spend.
Manage the repayment lifecycle - setting up repayments and processing refunds
Set up and administer syndications, keeping investment partners' positions accurate and up to date.
Process commission payments.
Maintain the books through regular full-cycle bookkeeping across the company's operating accounts.
Own state licensing renewals and regulatory filings, including NMLS and DFPI reporting.
Prepare annual filings such as 1099s.
Track company credit card expenses and other liabilities.
Partner with the processing and operations team, jumping in on deal support and collections coverage as needed.