Corporate Accounting Lead

Fluidstack•San Francsisco, CA

2d•$188,000 - $254,000

About The Position

Fluidstack is seeking a Corporate Accounting Lead to build and manage the financial infrastructure from the ground up. This role involves standing up a lean finance organization for a fast-growing data center hyperscaler, owning the full stack from vendor invoice to cap table. The Corporate Accounting Lead will be responsible for the global monthly and quarterly close for payroll and benefits, accounts payable, and all operating expenses, partnering with various teams to ensure accurate and timely closing under US GAAP. The role also includes running the accounting stack in various software systems, writing and defending accounting memos, leading and mentoring the corporate accounting team and offshore shared services team, and building automation and AI roadmaps for the close process while ensuring SOX and internal controls readiness.

Requirements

Led or been a senior driver of a global monthly and quarterly close at a high-growth public or pre-IPO software or technology company, and compressed close timelines without sacrificing accuracy.
Worked across Big 4 public accounting and in-house corporate accounting, and operated within a broader CAO organization beyond just the accounting function.
Written accounting memos that resolve ambiguous, judgment-heavy transactions and stood behind those conclusions with external auditors.
Run a close that holds up under SOX and Big 4 external audit requirements, with the documentation and controls to prove it.
Used AI or automation to cut manual work out of an accounting process, and can point to what changed as a result.
Manage up and down at once: aligning executives on accounting positions while mentoring a team, including an offshore shared services team.
Hands-on experience with NetSuite, VisualLease, Zip, Navan, or Brex specifically.
SEC reporting exposure at a public company.
CPA license.

Responsibilities

Own the global monthly and quarterly close for payroll and benefits, accounts payable, and all operating expenses.
Partner daily with FP&A, Revenue Ops, Financial Reporting, Tax, Treasury, IT, Sales Ops, and Global Workplace Services to close accurately and on time under US GAAP.
Run the accounting stack in NetSuite, VisualLease, Zip, Navan, and Brex, keeping payroll, and expense data clean and audit-ready as transaction volume scales.
Write and defend accounting memos on ambiguous transactions, landing on defensible US GAAP conclusions that hold up under external audit scrutiny.
Lead and mentor the corporate accounting team and the offshore shared services team, building the processes that let a lean team keep pace with headcount and transaction growth.
Build the automation and AI roadmap that reshapes the close as the company scales, while owning SOX and internal controls readiness so external and internal audits stay clean.