Controller

About Us
Jupiter is the global market leader in analytics for resilience planning and enterprise climate risk management, especially in financial services, industrial, the public sector, and NGOs. Jupiter is led by pioneers in data, climate, and earth and ocean sciences, as well as technology, risk management, company building, and public policy. Our climate risk modeling solutions save lives and mitigate potentially catastrophic impacts inflicted by hurricanes, floods, heat waves, wildfires, drought, and other extreme weather events on homes, businesses, infrastructure, food and water supplies, and entire economies.
Bringing diversity to prepare a diverse planet for our changing climate​Jupiter was founded on the principle that with the right approaches and the right team, we can prepare Earth’s economies to meet the challenges associated with climate change. The world is a diverse place; a diverse workforce in an inclusive environment is essential to meet our goals. We go forward together. We seek new colleagues—data scientists, physical scientists, software engineers, company builders, and more—who share our passion for excellence, innovation, and collaboration. Jupiter was founded on the principle that with the right approaches and the right team, we can prepare Earth’s economies to meet the challenges associated with climate change.
The Purpose of this position: Our Controller will manage and support our team’s continued growth and best-in-class processes that drive long-term partnerships with the business, accounting, treasury, payroll, tax functions and people management. This individual will be responsible for producing accurate and timely financial statements, maintaining strong systems for controls and risk management. The Controller will work closely with the finance team on our FP&A process helping lead the team to higher levels of operational discipline via systemic reporting.
As a key member of the accounting leadership team, you will work to streamline and constantly improve Jupiter’s reporting and accounting processes with a clear sense of ownership, taking personal responsibility for decisions, actions, and outcomes. As a leader and mentor, your guidance will play a key role in technical accounting decisions while looking ahead proactively foreseeing opportunities and challenges to find solutions. With a passion for collaboration, you will work across the organization developing and maintaining positive relationships across business functions with the goal of being a valued business advisor.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and vision for scaling the accounting team and our financial infrastructure to support our high-growth journey. 
• Identify, hire, onboard and manage key accounting resources.
• Manage our quickly expanding AR and AP processes to support our partners, customers and vendors 
• Establish accounting policies and procedures that ensure finance statements in compliance with GAAP accounting principles. 
• Own the financial close process and all associated activity to deliver accurate and timely results reporting to management, regulators and the Board of Directors. 
• Develop the team’s capabilities across the range of responsibilities: general ledger, tax, treasury, payroll, accounts payable, financial reporting, audit, insurance and legal.
• Maintain and improve our various Finance Accounting systems including Quickbooks, and Expensify. 
• Interact and provide information for our audit, banking, accounting, and legal stakeholders.

Education & Experience

• Masters Degree in Accounting or Business Administration preferred or undergraduate degree with equivalent work experience 
• CPA certification preferred
• Strong knowledge of US GAAP, SaaS accounting, revenue recognition, accrual and cash accounting
• 10+ years of progressive experience, including 4+ years with a Big 4 public accounting firm or another larger organization with hands-on technical experience
• Strong organizational, analytical, and project management skills, with the ability to communicate effectively across a diverse set of teams and geographies with varying levels of financial experience.
• Proven track record of building strong teams and leading/influencing others through highly cross-functional projects

Jupiter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer to all, regardless of age, ancestry, color, disability (mental and physical), exercising the right to family care and medical leave, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, political affiliation, race, religious creed, sex (includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and related medical conditions), and sexual orientation.
Successful candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S.
Please submit your Cover Letter and Resume to us to see if there might be a great fit.