Jobs · Accounting · California

Head of Accounting

Vizcom · San Francisco, CA · 5 days ago
HybridAccounting$210k–$250k/yrContract

About the role

This is a rare build-from-scratch opportunity: own accounting at a fast-growing, AI-native company and shape it from the ground up.

Responsibilities

  • Own enterprise billing and revenue recognition end-to-end.
    • Turn quote-to-cash and ASC 606 revenue recognition into a clean, best-in-class motion that leadership and the board can trust.
  • Own and accelerate the close.
    • Streamline monthly and quarterly close with our outsourced firm, then bring core functions (GL, reconciliations, AR/AP, close) in-house on a schedule you set, toward a predictable sub-10-day (or better) cadence.
  • Choose and implement our ERP.
    • Within your first 6-9 months, evaluate legacy options (NetSuite) against AI-native platforms (Campfire, Rillet) against our real requirements, make the call, and then own the implementation, building the function AI-native from the start.
  • Get us audit-ready, then lead the audit.
    • Stand up GAAP policies and a right-sized controls framework, clean historical financials, and select and manage the auditor through Vizcom’s first external audit.
  • Build the team and the org over time.
    • As volume grows, define and hire the first accounting roles (GL Accountants, Revenue Accountants, and beyond) and develop the team (including AI Agents) you’ll eventually lead.
  • Partner across the business.
    • With the VP, Finance & Operations on reporting, board, and investor support.
    • With GTM, Product, and Data on the systems that connect accounting to the company.
    • And with external tax, compliance, and outsourced partners.

Requirements

  • 8-12 years of progressive accounting experience, with meaningful time at a venture-backed SaaS/AI company.
  • You’ve built or substantially leveled up an accounting function before.
  • You’ve gone from outsourced or messy to structured and know what the journey actually looks like through $100M+ in revenue.
  • Deep US GAAP expertise, with real ASC 606 revenue recognition experience for SaaS and enterprise contracts.
  • You can write the policy and defend it to an auditor.
  • You’ve done the work, not just reviewed it.
  • You’re a team of one on day one.
  • You’ve evaluated tools on requirements, not demos.
  • You’ve integrated AI meaningfully into how you work, and you build new workflows AI-first.
  • You can speak specifically to where it works, where it doesn’t, and how you’ve developed judgment about when to trust the output.
  • You’re a doer today who wants to lead tomorrow.
  • You’ve hired, mentored, or managed a team and are ready to build and lead a team as the function grows.
  • You’re comfortable with ambiguity and have a bias toward action.
  • You write the first version of the playbook rather than wait for one, and as a colleague, you enjoy planning, executing, winning, and celebrating as a team.
  • You’ve been successful in environments where there wasn’t already a playbook.

Qualifications

  • Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, and comfortable working in our hybrid environment with regular time together in the office.
  • Nice to have: CPA (active or inactive) and/or a Big 4 or national-firm foundation (2-4 years).
  • Hands-on experience with the modern accounting stack (Campfire, Rillet, Ramp, Tabs, etc) or a fast, curious adopter.
  • You’ve helped scale a company from Series B through $100M+ ARR.
  • Experience with usage-based or consumption billing models.
  • Exposure to multi-entity or international accounting, fundraising support, tax compliance, internal audit/IT controls, etc.

Benefits

  • 100% employer-sponsored medical care for employees, 25% toward dependents
  • Dental, vision, and mental health care
  • Meaningful equity ownership in Vizcom
  • Flexible PTO
  • 401(k) with payroll match
  • Generous annual Learning & Development allowance
  • Paid parental leave
  • Weekly catered lunch at Headquarters
  • Monthly fitness/gym membership stipend

Pay

$210,000-$250,000, depending on experience and scope, plus meaningful equity.

Schedule

Hybrid, with regular time together in the office.

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