We are looking for a finance leader to lead all day-to-day finance operations including functional responsibility for accounting, internal controls, and transaction processing functions including accounts payable, accounts receivable, and payroll. The Controller would ensure consistent, accurate, and concise financial reporting for the internal and external stakeholders. The Controller will support the Global VP Corporate Controller and will ensure consistent, accurate, and concise financial reporting for the internal and external stakeholders.

Role And Responsibilities:

• Plan, direct and coordinate all accounting operational functions

• Responsible for the Company’s monthly, quarterly, and year-end close process and management reporting of results, variances, operating metrics, and other analyses

• Oversee all accounts, ledgers, and reporting systems ensuring compliance with appropriate standards

• Work to continuously improve/evolve internal controls, policies, and infrastructure in an effort to scale the business; lead the company’s SOX readiness program from a process and systems perspective.

• Support the development of accounting policies in collaboration with technical accounting directors and ensure the appropriate application of those policies to the Company's business activities

• Manage the resolution of complex accounting issues in collaboration with technical accounting resources by providing inputs and reviewing accounting memos detailing significant transactions/practices

• Establish strong relationships with intra-company peers and be the "go to" accounting source in the Company

• Lead annual financial audits and quarterly balance sheet and financial reviews, build strong auditor relationships, and partner internally to support operational and compliance programs

• Oversee regulatory reporting, including specific tax and compliance reporting need by tax teams across various jurisdictions

• Provide support for the annual budgeting and planning process; work with FP&A team on monthly forecast against budget and organizational cash flow forecasting

• Hiring, training and retaining skilled accounting staff globally to scale the accounting function to support Freshwork’s growth

• Perform ad hoc financial analysis

 
Required Qualifications, Skills And Experience:

• CPA or equivalent with 15+ years of relevant experience, including Big 4 public accounting experience and accounting leadership roles in a global environment.

• Detail-oriented and able to handle large quantities of data.

• Strong financial foundation, with in-depth knowledge of general ledger, month-end close processes, and U.S. GAAP

• Deep audit experience, having worked on all three financial statements, preferably at a Big 4 consulting firm

• Proven experience focus on streamlining accounting processes across payroll, procure to pay, revenue accounting, general ledger close, tax reporting and financial reporting

• Exemplary history of financial project management

• Working knowledge of federal, state, and local tax compliance regulations and reporting

• Experience with technical accounting areas such as revenue recognition ASC 606, stock based compensation expense, capitalized internal software development, debt/ equity transactions

• Strong experience working with ERP systems (Netsuite is a strong plus )

• Proven record of mentoring and developing talents in a global environment

• High emotional intelligence, ability to build and sustain relationships at multiple levels within and outside of finance.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills, clear and precise in communication, tailor communication to the audience.

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, manage competing priorities, and adhere to tight deadlines.

Freshworks provides innovative customer engagement software for businesses of all sizes, making it easy for teams to acquire, close, and keep their customers for life. Freshworks Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products provide a 360-degree view of the customer, are ready to go, easy to use, and offer quick return on investment. Headquartered in San Mateo, CA, Freshworks 3,000+ team members work in offices throughout the world. Freshworks has global offices in India, Singapore, Australia, UK, Netherlands, France and Germany.  The company counts over 220,000 businesses in its customer-for-life community around the world including Honda, Bridgestone, Hugo Boss, University of Pennsylvania, Toshiba, Sling TV and Cisco.

Freshworks’ suite of products that transform the way world class organizations collaborate with customers and co-workers, include Freshdesk (Omni-channel customer support), Freshservice (IT Service Desk), Freshsales (Intuitive fully-integrated CRM), Freshmarketer (Marketing Automation Suite), Freshteam (HR Management System for growing teams), Freshchat (Modern messaging software) and Freshcaller (Cloud PBX system).

Freshworks has received numerous accolades from analysts and media including making it to Forbes’ Cloud 100 list, Economic Times Startup of the Year, 2019 LinkedIn Top 25 Companies to work for in India and a listing on the Magic Quadrant for CRM Customer Engagement & IT Service Management. While Freshworks has had incredible organic growth over the last few years, the company also has made targeted acquisitions that add critical capabilities to the portfolio including Natural Language Processing, Chatbots, Machine Learning, Social and Messaging Transformation. Freshworks has raised over $250 million in capital and is funded by Accel, CapitalG, Sequoia Capital and Tiger Global Management. More information is available at: www.Freshworks.com.