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title: 'Controller at Arketa'
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# Controller at Arketa

- **Company:** Arketa
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $110k–$160k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-14
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/arketa/222c8e21-72a2-4124-992f-0386c8a2b4f8

## Job description

## About Arketa

Arketa is building the operating system for modern fitness and wellness. Our mission is to make wellness more accessible by empowering studios and wellness entrepreneurs to grow beyond in-person classes. We provide a powerful, all-in-one platform to manage and scale hybrid wellness businesses, whether online, in-person, or both. With Arketa, studios can manage schedules, accept bookings and payments, build on-demand video libraries, host retreats, run automated marketing, and launch fully branded apps and websites. We make it simple for founders to deliver a seamless, professional experience across every customer touchpoint. We've raised $15M in Series A funding and are growing quickly. It's a unique moment to join us. We're building a category-defining company in a fast-moving space, and we're looking for a leader who is excited to help shape what world-class partner support looks like in the wellness category.

## About the Role

We're bringing accounting in house, and you'll be the person who owns it. As our Controller and right hand to our VP of Finance, you'll take full ownership of bookkeeping, the month-end close, financial reporting, tax, and audit, raising the bar on accuracy and building the foundation leadership relies on to make strategic decisions. This role flexes both ways. Day to day, you'll be hands-on in the books, running close and reconciliations yourself. You'll start as an individual contributor for your first 6 to 12 months, with a clear path to Senior Controller leading a small team as the function grows.

## About the Team

You'll join our Finance team as the first in-house accounting hire, working directly with our VP of Finance. Accounting has been supported by outsourced partners up to now, and as Arketa grows we're ready for someone with a true owner's mindset to build the function from the ground up. You'll have high visibility with our leadership team and partner closely with our external auditors and tax advisors.

What You'll Do:

- Month-end close & financial reporting: Drive a timely, accurate close and produce monthly financial statements that leadership can trust and act on.
- Internal controls & GL structure: Design and maintain the control environment, including correct account and department mapping, clean categorization rules, and documentation that will hold up under audit scrutiny.
- Tax compliance & coordination: Manage tax filings and coordination with external tax partners, including credits (e.g., R&D) and multi-state considerations.
- Payables & receivables: Manage the full AP/AR cycle, including vendor bill pay, employee reimbursements, invoicing, and collections, ensuring nothing sits stale or miscategorized.
- Bookkeeping & accounting operations: Own day-to-day bookkeeping alongside higher-level accounting: transaction categorization, journal entries, and general ledger maintenance across our banking, payroll, payments, and accounting systems. Use AI to speed up repetitive, time-consuming work while applying your own judgment to get it right.
- Audit leadership: Serve as primary liaison to our external audit firm, prepare schedules, respond to PBC requests, and manage the audit timeline.

What success looks like:

- First 30 days: Take ownership of the books from our outsourced partner, learn our systems (banking, payroll, Stripe, Brex, accounting), run your first month-end close, and have audit prep underway for the December kickoff.
- First 60 days: Serve as the day-to-day lead with our auditors through fieldwork, delivering schedules and PBC requests on time, while tightening GL mapping and categorization rules.
- First 90 days: Deliver a consistent and reliable monthly close, have core internal controls documented, and be on track to take bookkeeping accuracy to 99%.

What we're looking for:

- Typically 5+ years of progressive accounting experience. We care more about relevance than tenure, so a strong candidate with 3 to 4 years doing exactly this work is encouraged to apply.
- Strong foundation from public accounting or the finance team of an established company, ideally followed by time in a high-ownership, early-stage environment
- Deep command of core accounting: month-end close, financial reporting, internal controls, payables and receivables, and tax
- A high-ownership mindset and genuine enjoyment of hands-on work
- Comfort with ambiguity and building process where none exists
- Best-in-class attention to detail and an unwavering commitment to accuracy
- You use AI to move faster on repetitive, time-consuming tasks while still exercising your own judgment

Bonus:

- CPA
- Prior audit experience, ideally from the company side (preparing schedules, responding to PBC requests, managing the audit timeline)
- Familiarity with Stripe and Brex (or similar tools) and experience managing books across multiple systems without a single unified ERP

You Should Apply If

- You're smart, a little bored in your current role, and hungry for a bigger challenge
- You want to build a finance function from scratch with real visibility and ownership
- You trained in public accounting or a large company and are ready to own the whole picture at an early-stage company
- You want to be hands-on today with a clear path to Senior Controller and a team
- You're mission-driven and excited about wellness becoming more accessible

You May Not Want to Apply If

- You prefer the structure and defined scope of a large, slower-moving environment
- You'd rather manage the work than do it yourself
- You need fully built-out processes to be effective
- You want a slower pace or a more established later-stage environment

What We Offer:

- Ownership and Opportunity for Advancement
- Competitive Salary and Stock Options
- Unlimited PTO: our policy is designed to give you the flexibility to rest, recharge, and take care of personal needs, while staying aligned with your team and responsibilities.
- Medical, dental and vision health insurance
- Fitness Class Reimbursement: we're committed to supporting both employee wellness and our industry relationships. As an Arketa employee we see movement as opportunity.
- Parental Leave Policy

For this role, the estimated annual base salary is $110,000 to $160,000, depending on experience and qualifications. In addition to base pay, we offer equity. We believe in compensating fairly and transparently, and we're happy to provide more detail during the interview process.

## About Arketa

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Arketa provides an all-in-one booking, marketing, and business management platform specifically built for modern fitness and wellness studios.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A; $15M round raised June 2025)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Rachel Lea Fishman (CEO) and Josh Archer (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Wellness and Fitness Services / SaaS for fitness businesses
- **Target customers**: B2B – Individual fitness instructors, single-location studios, and multi-location wellness businesses (SMB segment)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: Build the operating system for modern wellness businesses – products that help studio owners grow community, increase revenue, and deliver world-class client experiences. “Software should do more—be more intelligent, more intuitive, and truly support the people using it.” [arketa.com/careers](https://www.arketa.com/careers)

## Products & Services
- **Booking & Scheduling (SaaS)** – Customizable scheduling widgets, branded checkout, automated class management, and waitlist handling. Clients never leave the studio’s website. [arketa.com](https://www.arketa.com/)
- **Marketing Automations (SaaS)** – High-converting forms, automated email/SMS sequences (e.g., late cancel/no-show workflows), Google reviews and direct booking integration, referral and “Book a Friend” features. [arketa.com](https://www.arketa.com/)
- **Payments (Integrated)** – Credit/debit processing via Stripe, contactless checkout (Apple Pay, Google Pay), automated billing with dispute resolution. [arketa.com](https://www.arketa.com/)
- **Client Management & Communication (SaaS)** – 1-to-1 texting from dashboard, customer profiles, class entry in seconds, and automated workflows for cancellations and unpaid reservations. [arketa.com](https://www.arketa.com/)
- **On-Demand Content (SaaS)** – Video library, courses, and retreat management to add new revenue streams. [arketa.com](https://www.arketa.com/)
- **Branded Website & App (SaaS)** – Full white-label website and mobile app that match the studio’s brand, keeping customers inside the studio’s ecosystem. [arketa.com](https://www.arketa.com/)
- **Reporting & Analytics (SaaS)** – Intuitive reporting dashboard to reveal trends in revenue and memberships, uncover risks, and track key metrics. [arketa.com](https://www.arketa.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding – **$22.7M** (including $125k Y Combinator seed in 2020, $7.6M seed in Dec 2022, and $15M Series A announced June 2025) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/arketa)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: **Inspired Capital** (led Series A), **Y Combinator** (seed), and other unnamed investors. Payment partner: Stripe. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/arketa)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - **Headcount**: 85 employees (+88.1% year-over-year) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/arketa)
  - **Trusted by 1,000+ businesses** (as of website claim) [arketa.com](https://www.arketa.com/)
  - **Monthly web traffic**: 267,787 visits (+122.9% monthly growth), global rank #147,939, top country USA at 80% [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/arketa)
  - **LinkedIn followers**: 8,968 (+60.6% yearly) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/arketa)
  - **CEO nominated** for Athletech News Power Players 2025 as an Executive to Watch. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/arketa)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Niche expertise**: Built by fitness professionals (“the platform they wish they had”) rather than generic booking software [arketa.com/about-us](https://www.arketa.com/about-us)
- **Smart automations**: Deep workflow automation for late cancels, no-shows, referrals, and marketing – reduces manual tasks for studio owners [arketa.com](https://www.arketa.com/)
- **Superior customer support**: Industry-best response times, live chat available on weekends (busiest studio times), also email and Zoom [arketa.com](https://www.arketa.com/)
- **Full-stack white-label**: Branded website and app keep the customer experience on the studio’s own domain, reducing churn risk vs. generic marketplace platforms like ClassPass [arketa.com](https://www.arketa.com/)
- **Integrated payments and analytics**: All-in-one platform eliminates need for multiple disconnected tools (lower cost, easier management) [arketa.com](https://www.arketa.com/)

## Strategic Focus
- Continued product expansion, especially **on-demand content, retreats, and video library** to help studios diversify revenue streams [arketa.com](https://www.arketa.com/)
- **Scaling go-to-market** internationally – currently operating in 6 countries (UK, Mexico, Canada, Australia, Philippines) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/arketa)
- **Hiring aggressively** across sales, customer care, marketing, and engineering – 10 active job postings as of mid-2025 [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/arketa)
- **Deepening integrations** with tools like Salesforce, HubSpot, Klaviyo, Intercom, and Mindbody to expand ecosystem [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/arketa)

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven**: Focus on underserved fitness/wellness industry – “push wellness forward” [arketa.com/careers](https://www.arketa.com/careers)
- **Remote-first culture**: Team distributed across the US, UK, Mexico, Canada, Australia, and Philippines; remote work is supported [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/arketa)
- **Fast-growing team**: 88% headcount growth YoY; opportunity to have high impact in a Series A company [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/arketa)
- **Engineering & product culture**: Invests in modern tech stack (React, Python, TypeScript, MongoDB, Stripe, Twilio, etc.) and “fast-moving, aligned teams with clear focus and high standards” [arketa.com/careers](https://www.arketa.com/careers)
- **Notable perks**: Free trial for customers but for employees – not explicitly stated, but role variety (from VP Marketing to Lead Instructor) suggests growth paths; roles across time zones [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/arketa)

## Sources
1. [arketa.com](https://www.arketa.com/)
2. [arketa.com/careers](https://www.arketa.com/careers)
3. [arketa.com/about-us](https://www.arketa.com/about-us)
4. [linkedin.com/company/arketa](https://www.linkedin.com/company/arketa)

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