About this Assistant Controller role at Finch Legal
About Finch
We’re building the applied AI platform for consumer law.
Legal is the largest services market in the global economy, and consumer law drives tangible, customer outcomes. Our purpose-built platform combines AI agents and legal operators to reduce manual work, enabling firms to serve far more people and expand access to justice. 77% of Americans who'd benefit from a lawyer never get one and we’re broadening how technology impacts real life outcomes.
We’ve started with consumer law (a $120B+ market), and demand has come fast: more than 150 firms run on Finch; we're growing 1,000%+ year-over-year.
Finch was founded by a team of technologists and operators from backgrounds across scale-ups, legal operators, enterprise software, and financial institutions, and law firms. We’re backed by top VCs like Sequoia and Redpoint, and consistently looking to add top talent who wants to build in AI.
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What you'll do
As our Accounting Leader, you'll be the steward of the numbers the company runs on: books that close fast and clean, revenue that's recognized the right way, and a finance foundation that investors, auditors and our own team can trust.
Own accounting end-to-end, including the monthly close, the general ledger, and financial reporting across all Finch entities.
Work hands-on as a player-coach: close the books, write the memos and build the reconciliations yourself while laying the foundation for a growing team.
Own revenue recognition under ASC 606, and design how GAAP applies to an AI-native services business that sells outcomes rather than seats or hours (performance obligations, variable consideration, timing of recognition).
Manage a new type multi-entity with an Managed Services Organization (MSO structure), including intercompany accounting, consolidations, and entity-level compliance.
Drive Finch to an audit-ready state and own the audit end to end: build the controls, and documentation, and be the primary point of contact for our external auditors.
Bring our accounting systems to the next level, leveraging AI and automation so a small team can do the work of a much larger one.
Partner with Sales, Legal and Finance on contracting terms, billing, the revenue model and core investor reporting.
What will make you successful
You’ll likely thrive if you have
10+ years in accounting, including having built and led the accounting function at a high-growth startup or scale-up. CPA preferred.
Deep background in revenue accounting: you've owned ASC 606 for a complex model and can point to the policies and memos you wrote.
You can take GAAP revenue recognition and apply it to new business models, such as outcome-based, usage-based or services pricing, and defend your judgment.
You've managed accounting across companies with multiple entities, including intercompany, consolidations and compliance.
You've taken a company from messy books to audit-ready and run a financial statement audit end to end, as the main point of contact for the auditors.
You still do the work hands-on: you close the books, reconcile, and write the technical memos yourself.
You've built close and control processes and can point to the before and after (days to close, audit adjustments, findings).
You use AI and automation in your accounting work today and have a view on where they help.
It’s a plus if you have
Big 4 or national audit firm experience, ideally with technology or services clients.
Experience preparing for a first audit or a SOC 1 / SOX-readiness program.
Experience at an AI-native company, or at a company through both early stage and scale.
Familiarity with revenue in legal services or other regulated industries.
Experience with modern accounting stacks (e.g., NetSuite, Rillet, Campfire) and billing systems.
What happens next
We run a human, efficient process. That generally includes:
Intro: An initial conversation about your background, motivation, and the role.
Interview: A structured exercise to understand your approach to building and operating.
Onsite: A visit to our NYC office to meet the team, explore the work together, and have lunch.
