Senior Controller

About Sensi.AI

Sensi.AI is dedicated to revolutionizing elder care by using AI and data to guarantee safety, dignity, and satisfaction during every caregiver-care recipient interaction. Joining the team means contributing to a culture of innovation and compassion while advancing professional growth opportunities in shaping better care for older adults.

Role Overview

We are seeking a hands-on Senior Controller to take full responsibility for accounting, billing, and finance operations in our U.S. entity. This role will manage the entity’s books, monthly close procedures, payroll through a PEO, commissions, spend management workflows, sales tax compliance across states, and provide billing accounting support. It is a key, high-impact position perfect for someone eager to drive execution and develop scalable financial processes within a rapidly expanding SaaS environment. Embracing AI and automation to streamline work and enhance general finance accuracy is an essential aspect of this role.

Responsibilities

• Manage full ownership of the U.S. entity's financial books and monthly close activities.
• Prepare, evaluate, and post journal entries, accruals, reconciliations, payroll records, commissions, and closing schedules.
• Oversee the U.S. payroll process using the PEO partner, including updates, review, submission, and related accounting entries.
• Calculate commissions and coordinate payments.
• Administer spend management accounting using tools like Mesh, ensuring proper coding, approvals, receipts handling, and synchronization with NetSuite.
• Manage accounts receivable billing functions and oversee revenue and AR cycles.
• Ensure compliance with U.S. sales tax and multi-state reporting obligations, collaborating with external advisors as needed.
• Identify and implement AI and automation tools to improve finance workflows, controls, and reporting, reducing manual effort.
• Assist with audit processes, tax filings, compliance matters, and requests from investors.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in accounting, controllership, or similar finance roles within fast-growing SaaS startups.
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA) designation is required.
• Proven experience managing books for a U.S. legal entity.
• Strong command of U.S. GAAP principles.
• Hands-on expertise with NetSuite financial software.
• Experienced performing monthly closes, reconciliations, accruals, and financial reporting.
• Experience managing U.S. payroll processes, preferably with a PEO.
• Knowledge of commissions or sales compensation handling.
• Familiarity with U.S. sales tax and multi-state tax reporting.
• Experience with spend management platforms like Mesh, Ramp, Brex, or Airbase.
• Advanced skills in Excel and Google Sheets.
• Strong accountability, detail orientation, and ability to work autonomously.
• Experience leveraging AI tools or automation to improve finance and accounting processes.
• History supporting audits and tax filings.
• Proven management experience and collaboration with C-level executives.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with subscription management and CRM software such as Chargebee, HubSpot, or Salesforce.
• Familiarity supporting investor due diligence.
• Background building and scaling finance teams in high-growth companies.

Successful Candidate Traits

• Proactive and comfortable with hands-on execution.
• Detail-driven yet focused on process improvement.
• Skilled in cross-functional collaboration with Finance, Revenue Operations, Billing, HR, and FP&A teams.
• Practical and enthusiastic about adopting automation to optimize finance operations.
• Able to introduce structure, accountability, and scalability to the U.S. finance function as it grows.