Controller

About the role

Tennr is seeking an experienced and detail-oriented Controller to be the founding member of our Finance team. You’ll own accounting and financial operations, and help build the systems that support our next stage of growth. This is a hands-on role reporting directly to our VP of Business Operations, with the opportunity to shape the foundation and direction of our financial function from the ground up.

We’re looking for someone who is a self-starter, gets deep satisfaction from clean books, and is excited to build and improve processes at an early-stage fast growing startup.

About Tennr

Today, when you go to your doctor and need to be referred to a specialist (e.g., for sleep apnea), your doctor sends a fax (yes, in 2024, 90% of provider-provider communication is a 1980s fax). These are often converted into 20+ page PDFs, with handwritten (doctor’s handwriting!) notes, in thousands of different formats. The problem is so complex that a person has to read it, type it up, and manually enter your information. Tennr built RaeLLM™ (7B—trained on 3M+ documents) to read these docs, talk to your doc to ensure nothing is missed, and text you to help schedule your appointment so you can get better, faster.

Tennr is a NYC-based tech company that launched out of Y Combinator and is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Foundation Capital, The New Normal Fund, and other top investors. 

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee the accounting cycle: accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, reconciliations and cash flow management.

• Lead the monthly close process by working with our outsourced bookkeepers, including journal entries, accruals, and financial reporting.

• Assist with budgeting and forecasting.

• Ensure compliance with U.S. GAAP and maintain internal controls.

• Oversee compliance with tax filings, audits, and other regulatory obligations.

• Help optimize and automate accounting systems and workflows.

• Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure accurate financial inputs from Sales, Operations, and People.

• Analyze the current state of the Finance function and, if necessary, bring the Accounting function in house.

Qualifications

• CPA required.

• Have 7+ years of accounting experience, preferably with a mix of external and in-house roles

  • Big 4 experience required. 

  • 1-2 years of experience in a startup environment is a plus. 

• Have a strong command of U.S. GAAP and understand how to apply it in a startup context.

• Are highly proficient in Excel.

• Are extremely detail-oriented and take pride in financial accuracy.

• Are comfortable owning month-end close and working independently.

• Have a builder mindset—you’re excited to build a viable financial foundation for a scaling company, with best practices in process and software to help support that growth.