Financial Controller, Amsterdam

About Gigs At Gigs, we're building the operating system for mobile services— a platform that lets tech companies embed global connectivity into their products effortlessly. Just as Stripe lets any business add a payment button in seconds, Gigs empowers platforms to weave in connectivity — bridging the traditional world of telecom with modern tech. From fintechs launching mobile services to HR platforms offering work phone plans, we automate provisioning and remove telecom complexity. Our team of around 100 people across the US and Europe, backed by nearly $100 million in funding from Ribbit Capital, Google, and Y Combinator, is tackling deep technical and regulatory challenges to make connectivity truly seamless. If you’re driven by curiosity, creativity, and the chance to shape the future of telecom, we’d love to hear from you.

Things We Care About We are building in a highly complex space and tackling a massive problem. We want people who lean in when things get hard.

Speed.

We move and we ship. We set bold deadlines and treat every week like it matters.

Ownership.

If you see something broken, fix it. We don’t wait for permission.

Customer Obsession.

Our customers’ product is our product.

Ambiguity.

We’re building frontier technology in a complex domain. You’ll need sound judgement and good instincts to make decisions without complete information.

First principles.

We don’t ask how things have been done before. We ask why they were done that way at all.

The Role We’re looking for a Financial Controller who sees AI as a fundamental rethink of how financial control gets done rather than just a productivity tool. This is not a role for someone who wants to run the same playbook they ran at their last company. It’s a role for someone who has looked at the traditional controllership function — close, consolidation, intercompany, technical accounting, controls — and concluded that most of it can and should be reimagined from first principles. You will co‑own financial control across a multi‑entity group spanning 10+ legal entities across North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia‑Pacific, with new entities being spun up as we scale. The structure is genuinely complex: multiple functional currencies, intercompany flows that touch revenue recognition and a mix of direct employees, contractors, and EOR arrangements. For the right person, this is the perfect opportunity. You’ll take our controllership function from where it is today to public‑company readiness — and you’ll do it with a mandate to build it the way it should be built, not the way it has always been built. Few controllers get to define what an AI‑native financefunction actually looks like in production, at scale, under real audit scrutiny. If you want a role that will compress a decade of career development into a few years, and leave you as one of a small number of people who have actually done this, this is it.

What you’ll do You will be accountable for the integrity of our financial records across the group. That includes:

Own the day‑to‑day accounting and P2P across our multi‑entity structure.

Monthly, quarterly and annual close— and aggressively shorten the cycle.

Group consolidation, intercompany elimination and FX translation across 10+ entities.

Co‑design the internal control environment, including the design and documentation work required to be IPO‑ready.

Statutory reporting and local compliance across all operating jurisdictions.

Tax compliance coordination, transfer pricing documentation, and cross‑border structuring questions in partnership with external advisors.

Support the company’s international expansion plans.

Operationalize technical accounting positions under US GAAP (e.g., ASC 606 and ASC 718) and the IFRS equivalents where relevant for statutory reporting.

What we are looking for We expect AI to be embedded across the financial control function— not as a side project, not as an "innovation initiative," but as the default way work gets done. We’re not interested in saving a few hours on reconciliations. We’re interested in fundamentally compressing close timelines, eliminating entire categories of manual work, raising the quality anddepth of our analysis, and building controls that are stronger than what a manual process could ever produce.

Transaction processing and coding.

AP, expense classification, intercompany allocations, with AI handling the long tail and humans reviewing exceptions.

Reconciliations.

Bank, intercompany, subledger‑to‑GL — moving from manual matching to AI‑assisted anomaly detection.

Flux and variance analysis.

First‑draft commentary generated against source data, reviewed and refined by the team.

Control testing and documentation.

AI generating audit trails, test populations, and exception narratives.

Close coordination.

Orchestration of dependencies, automated status reporting, exception escalation.

The perfect candidate brings the following to the table:

Demonstrated work deploying AI, automation, or significant tooling changes inside a controllership or accounting function— not slideware, actual production deployments.

The disposition to challenge how things are done, including by us.

Experience in a multi‑entity, multi‑currency group, ideally one that was either pre‑IPO or recently public.

Comfort with ambiguity, with operating in jurisdictions you’ve never operated in before, and with making defensible judgement calls.

Direct experience leading a Big 4 audit relationship as the company‑side principal is a plus.

We believe in rewarding excellence. We offer competitive compensation and stock options, stipends for your home office or work setup, a budget for learning and development, and a free phone and international data plan.

Work At Gigs We value in‑person collaboration. We believe the best ideas, decisions, and relationships are built when teams spend meaningful time together, and our culture is designed around that belief. We support flexibility where it makes sense. Some focused work can be done remotely, and not every role or week looksthe same. You should expect regular time in one of our hubs, as well as occasional travel for team workshops, customer meetings, and Gigs Republic, our bi‑annual company off‑site. Our offices are designed to feel like home‑inspired workspaces, with plants, thoughtful tools, and small, tight‑knit teams that make collaboration feel natural, energizing, and effective.

What We Offer Competitive compensation and stock options; stipends for your home office or work setup; a learning and development budget; a free phone and international data plan. You’ll also receive a full benefits package in line with our company policy.

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