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# Assistant Controller at Legora

- **Company:** [Legora](https://feeny.ai/companies/legora)
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $222k–$261k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-25
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/legora/3d63f118-bf1f-4247-8a51-0b4f01ff8182

## Job description

## About Us

Legora is redefining how legal work gets done. Not built for lawyers, built with them. We work alongside the world’s best legal teams, who expect excellence, precision, and speed, and we hold ourselves to the same bar.

Our AI-native workspace lets legal professionals move faster, think more clearly, and operate with sharper precision. By analysing thousands of documents in minutes and powering end-to-end workflows, we cut through complexity, teams can focus on what matters: judgment, strategy, and outcomes.

1,000+ customers across 50+ countries trust us, including Cleary Gottlieb, Goodwin, Linklaters, White & Case, Dentons, and Barclays. We’ve scaled to $100M+ in ARR, with teams across Europe, North America and APAC, and continue to expand through acquisitions including Qura, Walter AI and Graceview.

We partner with world-class performers: including Aaron Judge and the New York Yankees, Ludvig Åberg (and his caddie), and campaigns featuring Jude Law.

Joining Legora means three things.

- We lean in: ownership over titles, outcomes over intentions.
- We fight for excellence: high standards, direct, ego-free feedback.
- We grow together: as a team and with our customers.

Mission before ego. Everyone contributes. No one coasts. If you’re driven by impact, pace, and raising the bar. This is the place.

## The Role

Legora is seeking an Assistant Controller to lead and scale the global accounting operations during the company's next phase of growth. This leader will be a key member of the controllership organization, overseeing Corporate Accounting, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, and Payroll globally, and help build a best-in-class accounting function that is accurate, efficient, well-controlled, and business-enabling. The Assistant Controller will be responsible for core controllership activities, including the monthly close, consolidation, financial reporting support, and control environment execution, while also driving process and AI automation initiatives that improve scale and decision support. This role is ideal for a hands-on accounting leader who combines operational rigor with a continuous improvement mindset and is comfortable driving change across a multi-entity, multi-GAAP group.

## What You’ll Do

- Lead Corporate Accounting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and Payroll globally, ensuring related accounting, controls, and reporting are executed accurately and on time across all entities
- Lead intercompany and international accounting, including management of third-party accounting providers, accounting for intercompany funding, and operational coordination across entities
- Manage the operational accounting leadership team, including the Accounting Manager, AP Manager, AR Manager, and payroll managers, as well as offshore team members
- Serve as the first escalation point for day-to-day accounting questions across the team
- Mentor, develop, and retain a high-performing team, creating clear accountability, strong development paths, and a culture of operational excellence
- Strengthen the internal control environment, including SOX readiness and execution, process documentation and control design
- Operationalize accounting policies and ensure consistent application across the business, partnering with Technical Accounting on implementation of new standards and positions
- Lead the design and execution of scalable accounting processes that improve accuracy, reduce manual effort, and support a high-growth SaaS environment
- Identify and implement workflow improvement and AI automation opportunities across the close and accounting operations lifecycle

## What You Bring

- 10+ years of progressive accounting experience; a foundation in public accounting (Big 4 or equivalent) plus in-house experience at a high-growth or multinational company
- CPA, ACA, or equivalent qualification
- Hands-on experience running a multi-entity close and consolidation, including intercompany and FX
- Knowledge of US GAAP; exposure to IFRS or local GAAP frameworks (e.g., K3, FRS 102) is a plus
- Experience being audited: you know what auditors need, how to prepare defensible workpapers, and how to keep an audit moving
- Strong systems orientation; ERP implementation or migration experience is a significant plus

## Nice to have

- Pre-IPO or public company experience, including SOX readiness or execution
- M&A integration experience: opening balance sheets, acquired entity onboarding, purchase accounting support
- Experience with SaaS revenue models and equity/SBC accounting execution
- Experience deploying automation or AI tooling in accounting workflows

What’s In It For You

- Global collaboration: Partner with teams and clients across Europe, APAC, and North America.
- Competitive package: Comprehensive salary, benefits, and tools for success.
- Meaningful work: Your efforts shape how thousands of lawyers use AI daily.
- In-person environment: Union Square office designed for ambitious builders and company provided lunch daily.
- Benefits & Perks: We invest in our people with a comprehensive, thoughtfully designed benefits package: Medical, Dental & Vision
- Multiple medical plan options through Aetna and Kaiser Permanente
- HSA or Healthcare FSA (based on plan selection)
- Dental plans via MetLife
- Vision plans via Vision Care

Family Support

- Generous parental leave
- Free access to Maven Clinic
- Dependent Care FSA
- Free One Medical membership for employees and dependents

Additional Perks

- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Life Insurance + STD/LTD
- 401(K) with generous company match
- Unlimited PTO
- Robust voluntary benefits, including identity protection (via Aura), legal coverage via MetLife, pet savings programs, and more

Legora is an Equal Opportunity Employer At Legora, we believe great teams are built on diversity of thought and experience. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive, high-performance culture where everyone can do their best work. We welcome people of all backgrounds and don’t discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

## About Legora

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Legora builds a collaborative AI workspace that empowers legal professionals to review, draft, research, and advise with greater speed and precision.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D; total funding $865.6M)
- **Headquarters**: Stockholm, Sweden
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Max Junestrand (Co-founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Legal Technology (Legal AI)
- **Target customers**: Law firms and in-house legal teams (B2B/Enterprise)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To empower exceptional lawyers" by building the world's first truly collaborative AI for legal work [legora.com/about].

## Products & Services
- **Legora aOS (Agentic Operating System)**: A single platform that connects information, communication, and execution of legal work. Integrates AI agents, monitoring, and workflow tools.
- **Agent**: An end-to-end executor that plans, reviews, and delivers complex legal tasks, allowing lawyers to focus on judgment-intensive decisions.
- **Monitors**: Continuously scans global regulation and surfaces relevant changes.
- **Lists**: Organises legal work from documents and connects AI outputs to workflows.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of $50.0M (LinkedIn estimate); Total Funding of $865.6M across 5 rounds (Seed, Series A, B, C, D).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Accel, Bessemer Venture Partners, ICONIQ, General Catalyst, Benchmark, Redpoint, Y Combinator. Recent Series D (April 2026, $600M) included 23 investors.
- **Growth Signals**: 352 employees (+528.8% YoY); 1,000+ customers in 30+ markets; acquired Qura and Walter. Active job postings up 1308% year-over-year (169 open roles).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep legal domain AI**: Purpose-built for legal workflows rather than general-purpose LLMs.
- **Security & compliance**: ISO 27001, ISO 42001, SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, HIPAA certified – critical for law firm adoption.
- **Agentic approach**: End-to-end execution of complex legal work, reducing non-billable hours by an average of 30%.

## Strategic Focus
- **Building the "OS for legal work"** – a single system connecting information, communication, and execution.
- Expanding globally with offices in 16 countries (US, UK, Australia, India, Denmark, etc.).
- Deepening AI governance (ISO 42001) to maintain trust and regulatory readiness.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values include "lean in," "fight for excellence," "grow together," and "curiosity and clarity." Emphasis on transparency, speed, and real impact over hierarchy [legora.com/careers].
- **Work environment**: Highly collaborative – "collaboration isn’t a process, it’s our foundation" [legora.com/about]. Hybrid/office presence likely given multiple locations; exact policy not specified.
- **Engineering focus**: Roles span software engineering, AI, site reliability, and product design. Hiring process includes a case presentation and a final interview with the CEO.
- **Perks**: Not explicitly detailed, but employer rating is 4.4/5 (Work-Life: 4.5, Compensation: 5.0, Culture: 4.4, Career: 4.4) from 9 reviews on LinkedIn.

## Sources
1. [Legora Careers Page](https://legora.com/careers)
2. [Legora Official Site](https://legora.com/)
3. [Legora About Page](https://legora.com/about)
4. [Legora LinkedIn Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/wearelegora)

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