LangChain
Technology
Controller
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“Controller at LangChain. Skills: Accounting, Financial reporting. Lead monthly close process. Lead quarterly close process”
Industry & Context.
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
10+ years accounting experience, 10+ years finance experience, 2+ years Controller role, CPA required, Knowledge of GAAP, Knowledge of financial reporting standards, Experience in high-growth SaaS, Experience in technology companies, Working knowledge of accounting systems, Track record of building close processes, Track record of improving close processes, Track record of building internal controls, Track record of improving internal controls
Nice to Have
Supporting Series B-D company through audit, Preparing for audit
What You'll Do.
Lead monthly close process
Lead quarterly close process
Lead annual close process
Manage relationships with auditors
Manage relationships with tax advisors
Oversee accounts payable
Oversee accounts receivable
Oversee equity administration
Build internal controls
Maintain internal controls
Ensure compliance with regulations
Partner on forecasting
Partner on variance analysis
Drive improvements to financial systems
Drive improvements to financial processes
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Works closely with Finance; Works closely with Legal; Works closely with People; Works closely with Operations; Communicating financial concepts; Cross-functional teams
Communication Scope
Communicate financial concepts
Full Job Description
ABOUT US At LangChain, our mission is to make intelligent agents ubiquitous. We build the foundation for agent engineering in the real world, helping developers move from prototypes to production-ready AI agents that teams can rely on. We began as widely adopted open-source tools and have grown to also offer a platform for building, evaluating, deploying, and operating agents at scale. With $125M raised at Series B from IVP, Sequoia, Benchmark, CapitalG, and Sapphire Ventures, we’re at a stage where we’re continuing to develop new products, growth is accelerating, and all team members have meaningful impact on what we build and how we work together. LangChain is a place where your contributions can shape how this technology shows up in the real world. Today, our platform includes LangSmith (Observability, Evaluation, Deployment, Fleet, and Sandboxes), our open source frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, and Deep Agents), and the newly launched LangSmith Engine for autonomous agent improvement. We have 100M+ monthly open source downloads, 6,000+ active LangSmith customers, and 5 of the Fortune 10 use LangSmith in production (+ 35% of the Fortune 500 overall), including teams at Klarna, Clay, Coinbase, Workday, Lyft, Cloudflare, Harvey, Rippling, Vanta, LinkedIn, Monday.com, Nvidia, and Bridgewater. ABOUT THE ROLE: As the Financial Controller, you'll lead our accounting and financial reporting functions end-to-end. You'll be the person who makes sure our books are clean, our close process runs on time, and our leadership team has the numbers they need to make good decisions. This role reports to the Head of Finance and works closely with our Finance, Legal, People and Operations teams. This is an in-office role based in our San Francisco or New York office. WHAT YOU’LL DO: - Lead the monthly, quarterly, and annual close process — on time and with accuracy - Lead our first audit and manage relationships with auditors and tax advisors - Oversee accounts payable, accounts r
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