--- title: 'Controller at Basis AI' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/controller-basis-ai-new-york-41pm5d0k8r6r' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-09' --- # Controller at Basis AI - **Company:** Basis AI - **Location:** New York, NY - **Employment:** full-time - **Posted:** 2026-09-01 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/basis-ai/cf62823a-b462-4b02-97ff-81e51b86f16a ## Job description [https://app.ashbyhq.com/api/images/user-content/a3ff9955-736e-4a64-a923-c3c42b253641/17b03131-be3b-4bb8-9ad9-dbafd99fd465/image.png] ## ABOUT BASIS Basis builds real agents that do real work in the real economy. Our agents operate for hours at a time, performing end-to-end work for some of the largest accounting firms in the world. We recently raised $100M at >$1B valuation and are racing to deploy the most advanced applied ML at production scale. Our investors include: Khosla Ventures (Keith Rabois & Vinod Khosla), Accel (Miles Clements), Google Ventures, Nat Friedman & Daniel Gross, Adam D'Angelo, Jeff Dean, Jack Altman, Noam Brown, Kyle Vogt, Amjad Masad, Clem Delangue and many other operators/technical leaders. "Basis is on the frontier of building production-grade, long-horizon agents. They've pushed the limits of what we thought our models could do on real-world, economically valuable, complex accounting tasks. They've been a great collaborator in helping us shape what the future of agents looks like." — Prashant Mital, Applied AI Lead, OpenAI ## WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING Basis is looking for a Controller to build the financial systems and operating foundation for our next stage of growth. You’ll own the integrity of our accounting and help us develop a clear, timely understanding of how the company earns and spends money. This role reports to the Head of Finance. What makes this role unique is that you’ll be the Controller at a company working to automate accounting itself. Basis’s own finance function should be a proving ground for the future we’re building: a place where we apply AI to real accounting work, learn where it creates leverage, and set a high bar for speed, accuracy, control, and judgment. You’ll bring an AI-forward mindset to how the function operates. That means redesigning workflows—not simply layering tools onto old processes—across the close, reconciliations, spend monitoring, reporting, and other core work. You’ll determine where AI can own work, where human review matters, and how the systems remain explainable and auditable as they scale. You’ll be a steward of that operating model. You’ll work closely with Product and Engineering, bringing a practitioner’s perspective to the same problems our customers are trying to solve and turning what we learn internally into better systems, sharper product insight, and a credible example of what an AI-native accounting function can look like. This is a high-ownership role for someone who combines technical accounting depth with systems thinking, curiosity, and strong business judgment. You should enjoy getting into the details while also helping define how a modern finance function operates at an AI company. 📍 Location: NYC, Flatiron office. In-person team, five days a week. ## WHAT YOU’LL BRING - 6-12 years of progressive accounting and finance experience, including meaningful ownership of accounting operations at a high-growth company. - Strong technical accounting knowledge across financial reporting, revenue recognition, accruals, capitalization, equity, and other areas relevant to a fast-growing AI company. - A systems mindset: you can translate messy processes into clear workflows, reliable data, thoughtful controls, and scalable operating rhythms. You are comfortable designing the system, implementing it, reviewing the details, and doing the work yourself when needed. - This is a building role. We value experience building systems for accounts payable, procurement, expense management, purchasing approvals, vendor commitments, and spend reporting. - Strong analytical judgment and the ability to explain not only what changed financially, but why it changed and what the business should do about it. - The ability to partner effectively with technical and nontechnical teams, including Engineering, Product, Sales, People, and company leadership. ## WHAT WE’D LOVE TO SEE - Accounting Function Building: Experience helping an accounting organization evolve from founder-led or highly manual processes into a scalable, well-controlled function. - AI or Infrastructure Cost Fluency: Experience managing or analyzing cloud, compute, model, data, infrastructure, or other variable technology costs. - Spend Systems: Experience building procurement, approval, vendor-management, cost-allocation, or expense systems from scratch that improved visibility without slowing the business down. ## WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE - Scalable Close Process & Reliable Reporting: Leadership receives accurate, timely financial information and trusts the underlying data. The monthly close runs on a clear cadence and becomes faster and more automated month-over-month. - Real Spend Visibility: Basis can clearly understand spend by vendor, team, category, product, customer, and underlying cost driver where relevant. - Thoughtful Cost Controls: Purchasing and commitments have clear ownership, approval paths, and guardrails that manage risk without creating unnecessary friction. - Revenue Integrity: Commercial agreements flow cleanly into billing, collections, revenue recognition, and reporting. - Systems That Compound: Accounting workflows, integrations, controls, and data improve with scale instead of becoming increasingly manual or fragile. - Audit and Compliance Readiness: Financial records, policies, supporting documentation, tax matters, and controls remain organized and ready for external scrutiny. ## BENEFITS AT BASIS We offer a competitive and thoughtful benefits package designed to support your physical, mental, and financial well-being: - Health & Wellness: Premium Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage; Life Insurance; and 6 coaching & 6 therapy sessions through Spring Health. - Basis will cover 100% of your Wellhub Gold https://wellhub.com/en-us/employees/?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwy5rUBhB5EiwAIoAtCixehqvud1v9ahoeOFqYnuIiBWAVW73IQK_ysAVP8wl75ukUUW-myBoCDlcQAvD_BwE&utm_campaign=us_b2c_google-search-brand-plans-pricing-wellhub__el_con_ongoing_all_signup_0425&utm_content=181565584554&utm_id=22473088932&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_term=wellhub+gold+plan_801285082537 membership. - Wellhub gives you access to gyms like Lifetime, SoulCycle, NYSC and so many more - as well as access to wellness apps like Strava & Headspace! - Time off: Unlimited PTO + 12 paid company holidays. - In-Office Perks: Daily meal stipends, a fully stocked kitchen, and $300 toward your custom desk setup. - Financial Benefits: Pre-tax commuter benefits and 401(k) retirement plan - Team Culture: Monthly office activities and frequent optional team happy hours. - Parental Leave ## About Basis AI ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Basis AI builds autonomous AI agents that execute end-to-end accounting workflows for professional accounting firms. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series B) - **Headquarters**: New York, United States - **Founded**: 2023 - **Founders**: Mitchell Troyanovsky (Co-Founder), Matt Harpe (CEO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Accounting Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise SaaS - **Target customers**: B2B — Top accounting firms in the United States (CAS, Tax, Audit, Advisory practices) - **Mission or purpose statement**: "The next era of accounting" — transforming knowledge workers from doers into reviewers by deploying agents that autonomously complete work. ## Products & Services - **Basis Platform**: An AI agent platform that runs in the background executing accounting workflows end-to-end. Core modules built for CAS, Tax, Audit, and Advisory practice areas. Agents conform to a firm’s standards, adapt to specific engagement context, and deliver finished work ready for review. Runs across cloud and on-premise accounting systems. [getbasis.ai](https://www.getbasis.ai/) ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: $1.15 billion (post Series B in February 2026) [getbasis.ai/careers](https://www.getbasis.ai/careers) - **Key Metric**: Total funding raised — $137.6 million (across 4 rounds: Seed, Series A, Series B) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/get-basis-ai) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Accel (lead, Miles Clements), GV (Google Ventures), Khosla Ventures (Vinod Khosla and Keith Rabois), BoxGroup, Better Tomorrow Ventures, Avid Ventures, Lloyd Blankfein (former CEO Goldman Sachs, lead Series B), Adam D’Angelo (CEO Quora), Nat Friedman (former CEO GitHub), Jeff Dean (Chief Scientist Google DeepMind), Noam Brown (OpenAI o1 co-creator), Amjad Masad (CEO Replit), Eric Wu (CEO Opendoor), and many other prominent angel investors. - **Growth Signals**: 253.7% year-over-year headcount growth (95 employees as of mid-2026, up from ~27 a year prior). Active in 10 countries. Expanded from CAS into Tax and Audit verticals. 26 active job postings as of mid-2026. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/get-basis-ai) ## Competitive Advantages - **Deep domain accuracy**: Built on foundational accounting principles, not a generic chatbot — agents understand the logic of the work itself and adapt to firm-specific standards. - **End-to-end execution**: Agents run autonomously for hours, collaborating with accountants at key decision points, rather than just generating text suggestions. - **Early market leadership**: Already deployed with the largest accounting firms in the country, with partners calling it the "most exciting new technology" they’ve seen in their careers. - **Applied ML at scale**: Hundreds of agents behind every accountant, performing real, economically productive work for paying customers today. [getbasis.ai/about](https://www.getbasis.ai/about) ## Strategic Focus - **Scaling across practice areas**: Expanding from CAS into Tax, Audit, and Advisory modules. A new "New Vertical" product design role is explicitly listed. - **Building for a generational company**: "We believe the marginal cost of intelligence will trend toward zero… accounting is among the most important and foundational — and might happen the fastest." [getbasis.ai/about](https://www.getbasis.ai/about) - **Deepening trust and governance**: Hiring Intelligence Architects and GRC specialists, indicating a focus on compliance, security, and enterprise-grade controls. - **International expansion**: Already operating across 10 countries, with hires in Brazil, India, Argentina, and the UK. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/get-basis-ai) ## Why Work Here - **Culture & intensity**: "The whole team in one room. Not a lot of formal meetings, but interesting conversations happening constantly… The standards are high and the feedback is frequent. People here are kind and fun, but they also push each other to be better." [getbasis.ai/careers](https://www.getbasis.ai/careers) - **Engineering-centric**: Technical roles account for ~20% of headcount. Operating principles emphasize clear thinking and are referenced every day. Whiteboards everywhere. - **Perks**: Premium Medical, Dental, Vision; Life Insurance; 6 coaching & 6 therapy sessions via Spring Health; unlimited PTO + 12 paid holidays; daily meal stipends; fully stocked kitchen; $300 custom desk setup; pre-tax commuter benefits; 401(k); paid parental leave. - **Remote/office policy**: Office-first culture — "most of the team eats lunch and dinner together." Based in a dedicated office at 20 W 22nd St, New York (Flatiron district). No mention of fully remote roles in current postings. - **Growth trajectory**: From ~27 to 95 employees in one year. Over 85% quarterly growth in job postings. Employees report huge responsibility from day one. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/get-basis-ai) ## Sources 1. [getbasis.ai](https://www.getbasis.ai/) 2. [getbasis.ai/careers](https://www.getbasis.ai/careers) 3. [getbasis.ai/about](https://www.getbasis.ai/about) 4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/get-basis-ai) 5. 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