Controller Senior Director, CookUnity

$225-275k

Expert level
New York

1 day a week in office

CookUnity

Ready-meal delivery marketplace

Open for applications

CookUnity

Ready-meal delivery marketplace

201-500 employees

B2CMarketplaceSustainabilityFoodConsumer GoodsDelivery

Open for applications

$225-275k

Expert level
New York

1 day a week in office

201-500 employees

B2CMarketplaceSustainabilityFoodConsumer GoodsDelivery

Company mission

CookUnity is on a mission to unlock the worldโ€™s best food creators and bring their meals to the masses.

Role

Who you are

  • This role requires a hands-on, ambitious leader to scale the capabilities of our accounting team to support the companyโ€™s growth
  • Bachelors or Masters degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field, Licensed CPA, public accounting experience preferred
  • 10+ years experience in roles of increasing responsibility. Ideally a combination of both large company experience and startup experience
  • Big 4 public auditing experience required
  • Strong leadership skills and track record of building and leading teams in a high-growth environment
  • Successfully designed, implemented, and optimized financial systems, including an ERP
  • Strong analytical skills and experience analyzing financial data

What the job involves

  • As the Controller Senior Director, you will be a key leader on our growing Finance team
  • You will lead all aspects of Accounting including ensuring timely and accurate financial reporting, overseeing treasury operations, establishing and enforcing effective controls, managing risk, and leading tax compliance
  • Lead all accounting operations including conducting timely and accurate closings, overseeing efficient and controlled AP, ensuring compliance with GAAP standards
  • Coordinate all audit activity
  • Establish and enforce effective controls to protect company assets and the integrity of our financial data
  • Oversee treasury operations and cash planning
  • Prepare and distribute investor reporting and maintain the cap table
  • Maintain compliance with tax and other reporting requirements
  • Be a thought leader in the design, implementation, and continual improvement of our financial systems
  • Elevate accounting processes to ensure efficiency, controls, and compliance
  • Build the accounting team including designing the optimal team, recruiting top talent, and developing the team

Our take

CookUnity is a meal subscription service which connects consumers with some of the country's best known chefs, including Esther Choi, Chris Ratel and Andy Mendez. Consumers can select from a menu of handcrafted meals that cater to a wide variety of palates and dietary preferences. Believing that healthy food fuels stronger communities, CookUnity contributes to an ongoing partnership and donation with the Food Bank For New York City.

The New York founded business hit the headlines for its upward trajectory in 2020, where it secured 15.5 million in funding and saw an expected boost not just in demand, but in the supply of top culinary talent at a time when restaurants were struggling.

While thereโ€™s a wide world of meal plan delivery services, CookUnity has a jump on much of the competition as itโ€™s the first service that connects such eminent chefs directly with the customer. This has allowed it to expand across much of the US, and it now prepares over 10 million meals annually for its 50,000 subscribers.

With most of the urban US now covered by its service, CookUnity is moving into the next phase of its growth, expanding the range of sellers and food products on the platform, and has plans to offer family-sized portions, brekfast options and cooking classes using its existing physical and digital infrastructure. This will enable it to grow into an all-in-one meal subscription service over the coming years.

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30% employee growth in 12 months

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Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)

Apr 2023

$47m

LATE VC

Sep 2021

$47m

SERIES B

Total funding: $119.3m

Company benefits

  • ๐Ÿ“ˆ We grow, you grow: Stock Options Plan granted on Day 1
  • ๐Ÿ– Unlimited PTO policy and paid holidays off
  • ๐Ÿฃ Family leave: 12 weeks for primary caregiver and 6 weeks for secondary caregiver, fully paid
  • ๐Ÿ•ฏ Compassionate Leave: 3-5 days each time the need arises
  • ๐Ÿฅ™ A generous amount of CookUnity credits to enjoy our amazing meals, added to your account, monthly
  • ๐Ÿง˜๐Ÿฝโ€โ™€๏ธ Wellness perks: access to a nutritional coach and fitness subsidies to build a healthy lifestyle
  • ๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿพโ€๐Ÿซ Personalized Spanish coach

Company values

  • Pursue Excellence: Weโ€™re fuelled by a relentless pursuit of excellence
  • Make it Simple: We always strive to do more with less
  • Harmony: We believe that greatness comes from goodness
  • Encourage Growth: We embrace a growth mindset and focus on making ourselves better each day
  • Celebrate Diversity and Creativity: We honor the individuality of associates, chefs and the people we serve
  • Make an Impact: We want to design experiences that make people happy, healthy and well
  • Build Unity: Because we're all connected and weโ€™re strongest when united

Company HQ

Bedford-Stuyvesant, NY

Leadership

Born on a farm in Argentina, Mateo is on a mission to make great real food available for all and a more fair and sustainable food system. He has built 10+ food brands that delivered more than 25M meals combined in the last 13 years, including SUSHIPOP and La Causa.

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