# Assistant Controller

**Company**: LayerZero
**Location**: Vancouver, BC or New York City
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/layerzerolabs/jobs/5970048004
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_dc6de848-6a8

## Description

We are looking for an Assistant Controller to own day-to-day accounting operations and the monthly close process across our global entity structure. This is a hands-on, high-ownership role for someone who thrives on precision, structure, and operational excellence in fast-moving environments.

You will work closely with finance leadership and cross-functional partners to ensure our books are clean, processes are scalable, and financial reporting is reliable as the organization grows. This is a force-multiplier role with visibility across the business and the opportunity to grow into broader responsibilities over time.

**Responsibilities**

- Execute and continuously improve the monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and audit readiness.

- Maintain the general ledger in NetSuite, including journal entries, accruals, prepaids, and intercompany activity.

- Reconcile bank accounts, corporate cards, payroll, and other balance sheet accounts.

**Day-to-Day Accounting & Systems**

- Own accounts payable and receivable workflows, including vendor onboarding, invoice processing, and payment runs using tools like Ramp.

- Partner with payroll providers (e.g., ADP) to ensure accurate payroll, benefits, bonus, and equity-related accounting.

- Maintain clean subledgers and supporting schedules that tie directly to the GL.

**Crypto-Native Accounting & Complexity**

- Account for token activity, including transfers, incentives, and related expense recognition, ensuring alignment between on-chain activity and the general ledger.

- Support crypto-specific accounting workflows and reconciliations as the business evolves.

- Partner with external specialists as needed on digital asset accounting considerations.

**Tax, Audit & Compliance Support**

- Support corporate tax filings (U.S. and international) by preparing schedules, documentation, and reconciliations.

- Work with external tax, audit, and advisory firms to support annual audits, reviews, and special projects.

- Ensure accounting policies and procedures align with US GAAP and scale with the business.

**Build for Scale**

- Document accounting processes and controls, creating clarity and repeatability as the team grows.

- Identify gaps, inefficiencies, and risks , and proactively design better workflows and controls.

- Act as a trusted accounting partner to finance leadership and cross-functional teams.

**Requirements**

- 5–8+ years of experience in accounting, ideally with a mix of public accounting and in-house experience.

- Strong working knowledge of NetSuite and month-end close in a multi-entity environment.

- Hands-on experience with modern finance tools such as Ramp (or similar) and ADP (or similar payroll providers).

- Solid understanding of US GAAP, balance sheet accounting, and close best practices (CPA preferred, not required).

- Comfortable operating in high-growth, ambiguous environments where processes are built, not inherited.

- Detail-oriented, highly organized, and obsessed with accuracy , you close loops and don’t let issues linger.

- Clear communicator who can explain accounting concepts to non-finance stakeholders.

## Skills

### Required
- NetSuite
- US GAAP
- Balance Sheet Accounting
- Close Best Practices
- Ramp
- ADP
- Payroll Providers
- Vendor Onboarding
- Invoice Processing
- Payment Runs
- General Ledger
- Journal Entries
- Accruals
- Prepaids
- Intercompany Activity
- Bank Accounts
- Corporate Cards
- Payroll
- Benefits
- Bonus
- Equity-Related Accounting
- Token Activity
- Transfers
- Incentives
- Expense Recognition
- Digital Asset Accounting
- Tax Filings
- Annual Audits
- Reviews
- Special Projects
- Accounting Policies
- Procedure Alignment
- Process Documentation
- Control Design
- Workflow Design
- Cross-Functional Teamwork