Assistant Controller, Navan
$123.8-230k
3+ days a week in office
Travel management company
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Travel management company
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$123.8-230k
3+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To reinvent the legacy category of travel and expense with one of the first enterprise technologies utilising the cloud, mobile, and AI to balance business needs with today's modern standards.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of progressive accounting experience, including as a Director or Senior Manager of Accounting, with public company roles in the financial services, Fintech or Payments industry
- Active CPA or equivalent required
- Strong knowledge and leadership of accounting operations and systems
- Strong project management skills
- Proven experience building, developing, mentoring, and inspiring a large, diverse, high performing professional accounting team in multiple locations (globally)
- Excellent communicator, both written and verbal, able to communicate complex concepts and risk factors to stakeholders and influence decision making
- Experienced business partner, skilled in building trust and inspiring others while ramping up in a new business and role in a complex environment
- Excellent knowledge and proven track record in assessing, developing, and implementing internal controls for SOX compliance while balancing bureaucracy-free processes
- Strong ERP systems experience, preferably in NetSuite
- High proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Google Suite
- Excitement around navigating a hyper-growth, rapidly changing, and sometimes ambiguous environment
What the job involves
- The ideal candidate will play a critical role in managing the financial health of the company, ensuring accuracy in financial reporting, and contributing to advancing finance operations
- This role is perfect for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is eager to take on new challenges
- Oversee, support, and develop the accounting team with a focus on driving efficiency & automation to keep up with the demands of our high-growth business
- Implement and improve financial systems and processes to enhance efficiency and accuracy
- Support the Controller in developing and implementing financial policies and procedures, including SOX processes. Identify processes to improve speed of close and harmonize teams and drive them to implementation
- Support the linkage of the US and EU teams in the close process
- Support the accounting operations for areas including general ledger, accruals, payroll, equity and intercompany, including detailed analysis and reconciliation of all general ledger accounts, while ensuring compliance with US GAAP, local accounting requirements and internal policies
- Support the Controller on communication of the close calendar globally, improving the quality and timing of the close. Drive coordination of the monthly global financial close process across global teams
- Conduct variance analysis and provide insights to support decision-making
- Ensure compliance with GAAP and other regulatory requirements
- Manage internal audits and ensure timely and accurate completion
- Liaise where necessary with internal and external auditors, FP&A, information technology, tax, treasury, legal and other functions
- Team leadership through managing talent including motivating, coaching, training and mentoring team members
Our take
Navan (formerly known as TripActions) is operating in a crowded marketplace, betting against rivals with similar offerings of user interface personalisation technology. Even so, the company's growth has skyrocketed and it has attracted significant investor interest. Competitors cannot match Navan's cutting-edge, AI-driven services, as well as 24-hour customer support.
Since its founding in 2015 the company has seen significant growth in transactions and in active users. Having expanded from its core travel expense management product, it now offers a corporate card and general expenses management, underwriting its customers' short term business expenses with its own Liquid financial offering. Navan has a list of impressive clients, including Glassdoor, Zoom, and Shopify.
Moving forwards, the company is focused on gaining more reach, especially in Europe. As part of the expanded go-to-market strategy, it rebranded to Navan with a more people-centric design approach. It also combined its travel, corporate card and expense services into a single app which is now available to individual users rather than only through a corporate account. This will be key in bridging the gap between business travel and consumer apps.
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Company Specialist
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back within 2 weeks
45% female employees
-40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Oct 2022
$154m
SERIES G
Oct 2021
$275m
SERIES F
Total funding: $1.1bn
Company benefits
- Flexible Vacation
- Healthcare
- Commuter benefits
- Parental leave
- Health and Wellness
- Fuel for Connection
- Pet Friendly
- 401k (retirement plan)
- IATAN (travel-related discounts)
- Connectivity Allowance
- Learning & Development
Company values
- Focus on Users
- Tech-Forward Solutions
- Lead with Context
- Communicate with Candor
- Raise the Bar
- One Diverse Team
Company HQ
Ventura, Palo Alto, CA
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Leadership
Ariel Cohen
(CEO)Research and Development director in Mercury Interactive (and HP after acquisition of Mercury). Product Management director, then VP, at Jive Software. Previously co-founded StreamOnce with Ilan.
Ilan Twig
(CTO)Studied Computer Science, managing positions in software engineering including VP and EVP of engineering at Jive Software. Previously co-founded StreamOnce with Ariel.
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