Corporate Controller

Accounting Leader Role At Polygon Labs

Polygon Labs is heading into its first-year audit with a multi-entity, multi-jurisdiction structure and a new cap table. This is not a maintenance role: the accounting function needs a leader who can drive historical remediation to completion, enforce close discipline, and take the company through a clean GAAS audit opinion, all while building the controls and processes that support a public-company reporting standard.

You will report directly to the CFO and lead the accounting team (a Senior Accounting Manager and Senior Accountants) through the most consequential finance build in the company's history. If you do this well, the path leads to Principal Accounting Officer of a public company within three years.

Your Responsibilities

• Lead the first-year GAAS audit end to end: direct the team through remediation of historical balances, prepare audit-ready opening balances and supporting schedules, and drive the engagement to a clean opinion on deadline, with a PCAOB-readiness mindset throughout.
• Own the monthly and quarterly close calendar across the multi-entity structure: enforce timeline discipline, direct multi-currency consolidation and intercompany eliminations, and ensure every sub-function (Treasury, Payroll, AP/AR, FinOps) delivers accounting-ready inputs before close, not after.
• Serve as the company's authoritative voice on U.S. GAAP: write and own technical accounting memos referencing applicable ASC guidance, take defensible positions under audit scrutiny, and codify accounting policies and procedures across the group.
• Own equity and stock-compensation accounting (cap table, ASC 718) and related disclosures; coordinate PFIC reporting for U.S. investors in foreign structures, partnering with the Tax Director and external tax advisors to deliver PFIC Annual Information Statements and QEF support on time.
• Use AI tools to draft and iterate on technical accounting memos, build automated close workflows with structured reminders and sub-function checklists, and validate that outputs from Treasury, Payroll, AP/AR, and FinOps are accounting-ready before close, reducing manual follow-up and compressing the close cycle.
• Build and maintain NetSuite workflows, month-end close automation, and reconciliation automation in coordination with FinOps; both build simple automations directly and direct the team on more complex integrations.
• Manage external auditors and advisors (Big 4 or national firm) to scope, quality, and timeline: you drive their schedule, not the other way around.
• Build and deliver board reporting packages; own the external auditor and advisory relationships as the designated PAO-track leader.
• Lead and develop the accounting team: set the standard for technical accuracy, operational discipline, and audit-ready deliverables, and pull the team forward rather than simply reviewing their output.

What You'll Need

• Active U.S. CPA license, required: this role is the designated Principal Accounting Officer track for the company.
• A Big 4 or national firm audit foundation followed by industry controllership experience in a complex, multi-entity structure: you have personally led a first-year or initial audit, including directing a team through historical remediation to a clean opinion, not just participated in one.
• U.S. GAAP technical depth across equity and stock-compensation accounting (ASC 718), multi-entity consolidations, revenue recognition, and impairment/fair value, sufficient to write and defend technical memos under audit and board scrutiny.
• Demonstrated ability to manage external auditors and advisors to firm deadlines: evidence that you have driven a Big 4 or national firm engagement rather than slipping to the firm's pace.
• Proven people leadership of a senior accounting team: you set direction, hold the standard, and develop the people. You are close enough to the work to review, unblock, and own the hard judgments, but you do not do the work for the team.
• Hands-on experience with NetSuite (workflow configuration, close automation, reconciliation automation) and a track record of integrating finance tools to improve close efficiency.
• Proven track record of using AI tools (Claude, Cursor, or comparable) to draft technical accounting memos, build automated close workflows, and validate sub-function outputs: daily, applied AI usage in this role is a baseline expectation, not a learning opportunity.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior IPO-track or pre-IPO reporting experience, including building toward SOX/ICFR compliance.
• Exposure to foreign-structure investor reporting: PFIC, QEF, or comparable.
• Context fluency in a digital-asset or blockchain environment: you do not need to author token accounting, but you need to understand the landscape well enough to direct the function accurately.

Polygon Labs Perks

The goal of the Polygon Labs total rewards program is to support the health and well-being of you and your family. Our comprehensive compensation plan includes the following benefits for our full time employees:

• $1,500 Home Office Set Up Allowance (life-time max)
• $200 Annual AI Allowance Program
• $75 Monthly internet or phone reimbursement
• Flexible Time Off
• Company issued laptop
• Egg freezing, mental health, and employee wellness benefits

Polygon Labs is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. Accommodations are available throughout the recruitment process and applicants with a disability may request to be accommodated throughout the recruitment process. We will work with all applicants to accommodate their individual accessibility needs.