Global Financial Controller

Permutive is a real-time data platform. Our first application has been within the world of Publishing, where we've built the world's first real-time Audience Platform. We’ve most recently won 6 G2 badges and 2 best in class industry awards.

Our technology sits behind some of the world's largest Publishers — from Business Insider and Hearst through to News Corp and Conde Nast — enabling them to understand and personalize user experiences for hundreds of millions of people every month.

You'll love working with us if you're excited by growth, embrace responsibility, and love to take on new challenges. It’s a really exciting time to join, experience the best of start-up life, and shape who we become as a company. We're working to build an incredible place to work, with an extraordinary, inclusive culture that transforms our team's careers, and we'd love you to join us.

About the role..

Permutive is looking for a Global Controller to own all aspects of the accounting and financial operations. Reporting directly to the CFO, you will have the opportunity to hire, grow and develop a small and high performing team, and implement technology and best practices that allow the company to operate efficiently and effectively at 2-3 times its financial current scale within three to five years. 

What you’ll be doing..

• Design and implement the processes to deliver a best-in-class month-end close process 
• Prepare the month-end reporting package with an analysis of any variances
• Define and execute formal and informal policies, practices and controls across all lines of business
• Implement and maintain accounting and finops systems including mid-market solutions for ERP, billing, collections, treasury, procurement and expenses
• Lead the annual external audit and prepare or oversee required reporting
• Ensure global tax and regulatory compliance – for now US and UK, but likely more in the future
• Coordinate with and support RevOps, CustomerOps, FP&A etc in developing KPI’s, forecasting, and insights
• Support Sales and Customer Success structuring enterprise-level software and services deals and renewals
• Own Invoice-to-Cash, Procure-to-Pay, payroll and travel expense management
• Ensure the Company complies with all current and future accounting standards (US GAAP and IFRS as required)

What you’ll need..

• Commutable distance to our office in NYC. 
• Extensive experience successfully progressing in B2B SaaS organisations, with at least four years executing on substantially all of the activities above. 
• Understands that G&A exists to service the organisation and not vice/versa
• Has successfully built accounting functions from scratch or from an early stage; able to assess the current state and articulate then execute on a vision of the future state 
• Implemented and maintained Enterprise Resource Planning in a global, multi-currency SaaS business.
• Implemented point-solutions around the ERP to improve efficiencies in all processes
• Deep knowledge of revenue and expense recognition, with a primary focus on commercial success over technical compliance.
• Successful people-leader with a track record of hiring and building high-performing teams.
• Detail-oriented, with a core focus on quality of inputs and outputs, and can see and articulate the big picture. 
• Consistently deliver on time, with quality and at or better than budget.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills
• Ability to review and understand commercial and vendor contracts
• Consistently embraces feedback to learn, grow and improve. 

What we are offering…

We take a structured, objective approach to salary-setting, which is based on market information, our compensation strategy, and your experience and capability as assessed through our interview process. For a typical candidate who meets our requirements, we pay a base salary between $190,000 - $200,000 with a 20% bonus based on company and individual performance. 

Benefits 

• Stock options
• Health & dental is covered 100% for Permutive employees and 75% for dependents
• Parental Leave Policy entitling new parents up to 26 weeks of leave on full pay
• Everyone has full access to Linkedin Learning
• Time to rest and relax with unlimited paid leave (minimum expectation of 25 days annually)
• Extensive training and development opportunities
• 401(k) plan
• Free access to <