Controller

Augustus•New York City, NY

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Few people get to build a bank from scratch. Even fewer get to build one at a moment when banking itself is being reinvented. The dollar is the best product in the history of the world, with practically infinite global demand, but distribution is broken. Global clearing runs on legacy banks that are closed 115 days a year, built for humans and take two days to settle. Augustus is the update to the internet era. We received conditional approval from the OCC to charter America’s first stablecoin-native clearing bank that is always open, made for machines, at the speed of compute. We are a group of operators, unicorn early employees, ex-founders and people who walked away from degrees because they believe this is an industry and career defining opportunity. We're backed with $40M from Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures, Creandum and founders of Ramp, Deel and Circle. We are regulated in Europe and live with Euro and Stablecoin clearing today. Now, we are building the US team from the ground up, while continuing to grow rapidly in Europe.

Requirements

Experience at a bank or financial institution where net interest income is the primary revenue driver.
Hands-on experience with complex balance sheets (loans, deposits, investment securities)
GL conversion or new system implementation experience.
Strong working knowledge of US GAAP; comfortable researching and taking technical positions independently.
In New York or ready to relocate.

Nice To Haves

You can't leave a control gap unfilled or a reconciliation unexplained.
Your documentation holds up under external scrutiny the first time, not after a review cycle.
You're as comfortable in an engineering discussion as a finance one.
Complex accounting doesn't stay complex when you explain it.
You've been waiting for the chance to build a bank's accounting infrastructure from scratch - not inherit someone else's.
You find the idea of governing AI-enabled workflows in a regulated environment more interesting than intimidating.

Responsibilities

Running the close end to end
Producing GAAP financial statements
Filing regulatory reports including call reports and FR Y-9SP
Co-leading the finance systems implementation (GL, subledgers, close tooling, reconciliation infrastructure)
Designing the internal control environment from the ground up
Coordinating internal and external audits
Partnering with Risk and Compliance on model governance
Working directly with Product and Engineering on how new launches hit the books
Governing AI-enabled workflows in finance (anomaly detection, reconciliation support, policy drafting)