Controller

Clara Foods DBA The EVERY Company is looking for a results-driven and confident Controller to manage and improve our organization's financial performance and direct our accounting operations. Duties for the Controller will include managing accounting records, evaluating and managing risk, ensuring compliance with regulations, publishing financial statements, overseeing accounting operations, analyzing financial data, monitoring expenditure, forecasting revenue, coordinating auditing processes, and ensuring the accuracy of financial information. The ideal candidate should possess strong analytical skills, exceptional problem-solving skills, be highly organized, and have excellent leadership skills.

Job Title: Controller

Location: South San Francisco, CA or Remote

Reporting to: Vice President, Finance

Department: Finance & People Operations

FLSA Status: Exempt, Full Time

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee the accounting operations, including supervision of contract accounting staff
• Develop and maintain internal controls appropriate for GAAP financial reporting
• Responsible for month-end close process and preparation of financial statements
• Lead accounting operations of the company including A/P, A/R, Cash Management, Inventory Accounting, Fixed Assets, GL, Payroll, Intercompany Accounting and Tax
• Upon commercialization, manage working capital by driving improvements in the areas of credit and collections, vendor and customer terms and collaborate with supply chain to improve inventory management
• Optimize and run the company’s forecasting and budgeting processes, and long-range planning capabilities
• Develop and prepare financial analyses for management and investor reporting
• Process payroll with outside service provider
• Coordinate and oversee annual audits and tax filings
• In coordination with HR and outside counsel, maintain stock and option ledgers, and obtain 409A valuations
• Support management with information to assist in the decision-making process
• Partner with department heads to develop and monitor operating budgets

Qualifications & Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting with 7 years of progressively responsible, relevant experience
• CPA required
• Must be authorized to work in the United States for Clara Foods

Preferred Skills & Abilities:

• Strong understanding of GAAP required (additional familiarity with IFRS preferred);
• Solid communication, technology, analytical and management skills;
• Familiarity with cost accounting principles;
• Experience with startups or fast-growing small companies.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States for The EVERY Company

What EVERY can offer:

• Generous benefits package; 100% medical, dental, and vision employee coverage and 75% medical, 50% dental & vision for dependents. 401k matching, and stock options
• Optional benefits; FSA, HSA, Commuter, Pet Care, and additional life insurance
• Flexible PTO
• Free parking, unlimited gym access, lounge, mini-golf patio, yoga and fitness classes onsite
• Unlimited supply of sparkling water, granola bars, snacks, local coffee and tea
• Weekly themed happy hours and quarterly company outings
• Monthly all-hands meetings and 1:1 with CEO and leadership
• Close to South San Francisco BART and Cal Train stations, including free shuttle service

About The EVERY Company™

The EVERY Company™ is a Bay Area venture capital-backed company working towards a disruptive advance in food technology by producing animal proteins without the animal using fermentation. We join a new generation of entrepreneurs, activists and scientists who recognize that the decades-old factory farm model cannot sustain the dietary needs of 7 billion people and counting - and that technology may hold a solution.

As much as the growing market demands for animal protein production exert pressure on food producers to improve their efficiencies and outputs, there is also growing public distaste for the environmental, animal welfare, and health compromises of industrial-scale animal agriculture.

The EVERY Company™ aims to subvert this moral and economic deadlock by taking the animal out of the equation. We’re bringing products to the table that are produced completely animal-free, use less land and water inputs, while matching the taste, nutritional value, and unique culinary properties of animal proteins

Clara Foods DBA as The EVERY Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.