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title: 'Controlling & Accounting Lead at Gigs'
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# Controlling & Accounting Lead at Gigs

- **Company:** Gigs
- **Location:** Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **Posted:** 2026-08-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://gigs.com/careers?gh_jid=4937254101

## Job description

## 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 150 people across the US and Europe, backed by nearly $100 million in funding from Ribbit Capital, Google, and Y Combinator. As one of the fastest-growing tech companies, bringing together early-stage engineers, product builders, and business athletes from companies like Stripe, Airbnb, and Shopify. We’re 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 Controlling & Accounting Lead to own the financial backbone of a high growth company building towards audit and IPO readiness. You'll ensure our accounting is rock-solid across a multi-entity global group structure, design and build out our internal control framework from the ground up, and drive our month-end-close to best-in-class speed. As we scale our global footprint, you'll be the person making sure our financial infrastructure keeps pace—all on a modern, AI-native tool stack that lets a lean team operate with the rigor of a much larger one. This is a rare chance to shape the finance function of a category-defining business at exactly the moment it matters most

## What you will do

- Master the close. We’ve recently taken our accounting in-house and centralized all our financial data in a single AI-native ERP (Campfire), the infrastructure is there, it’s now time to capitalize.
- Build an AI-native internal control framework. Design our control environment from the ground up, using our AI-native tool stack (incl. Campfire and Ramp) to embed controls into processes rather than bolting them on.
- Optimize our end-to-end process flows. Own and continuously improve the tooling and process design across all core cycles — P2P, R2R, O2C, and beyond—so they run cleanly and scale with us.
- Own management reporting. Deliver management reporting and surface granular, decision-ready insights that fuel our financial planning and analysis.
- Own technical accounting topics. Take ownership of our most technical topics—consolidation, revenue recognition, share-based compensation, and other areas that grow in relevance as we scale.
- Enable global expansion. Support the opening of new entities and help build the financial infrastructure behind our global footprint.
- Lead and grow the function. You’ll lead a team of 2-3 today, with the opportunity to build it out as the company scales.
- Build the blueprint. You won't inherit a finance function and maintain it—you'll design the one we grow into, setting the foundation for an AI-native accounting team built for an IPO and beyond.

## What we are looking for

- Someone that knows what it takes to build a finance function from the ground up (having an audit background is a major plus). Brings a can-do mentality to work everyday and deal with a dynamic environment in which priorities can shift on a weekly, if not daily basis. This role requires you to go above and beyond.
- Someone that can think from first principles and is comfortable building from scratch.
- Combination of strong operational accounting skill set with in-depth knowledge on technical accounting topics
- A storyteller that can contextualize numbers to drive relevant follow up actions and that can embed the controlling & accounting function more broadly in the organisation.
- Tech savvy with a clear vision and strategy on how to best leverage AI in a rapidly changing finance landscape.
- You are based in (or near) Amsterdam and are willing to work in the office for the majority of the time.

Work At Gigs

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 looks the 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

At Gigs, we believe in rewarding excellence. We offer competitive compensation and stock options because we see you as a true partner in our growth. We also provide stipends for your home office or work setup, a budget for learning and development to fuel your career, and of course, a free phone and international data plan

Want to learn more about our benefits, hubs, and what it’s like to work at Gigs? Check out our [Careers](https://gigs.com/careers) page.

## About Gigs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Gigs provides the operating system for embedded telecom, enabling any tech brand to become a mobile provider by offering phone and data plans through an API and white-label UIs.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, total funding $97M)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA (with hubs in London and Berlin)
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Hermann Frank (CEO) and Dennis Bauer

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Embedded connectivity / Telecom infrastructure
- **Target customers**: B2B – tech brands, fintech companies, enterprises, and any digital platform that wants to offer mobile plans to their users.
- **Mission or purpose**: Make connectivity seamless, universally accessible, and affordable by bridging the gap between telecom carriers and modern digital platforms.

## Products & Services
- **API**: A single, developer-friendly telecom API across multiple carriers and global markets for integrating connectivity natively into products.
- **Connect**: A modular, no-code white-label hosted checkout for mobile plans (signup, payment, SIM activation, plan management).
- **Dashboard**: A central cockpit for managing subscriptions, payments, devices, and analytics across multiple carriers and markets.
- **Payments**: Fully integrated recurring billing, refunds, tax calculation/remittance, and payouts for mobile services.
- **Operator AI**: An agentic AI assistant built for telecom that helps users self-serve requests directly in chat, reducing support tickets.
- **Sessions**: Simpler, faster signups with pre-filled data from a partner’s own systems.
- **Discover**: A sleek custom landing page for mobile plans, no code required.
- **Devices**: Hardware meets SIM – device management and fulfillment.
- **Travel**: Roaming and data solutions for travelers.
- **Work**: Employee phone plan management for businesses.
- **Fintech**: Bundling bank cards with SIM cards.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: **Total Funding** – $97M across three rounds (Seed 2021, Series A $20M in April 2022 led by Gradient Ventures, Convertible Note $4M in Sept 2022, Series B $73M in Dec 2024 led by Ribbit Capital). Annual revenue reported as $2.0M (LinkedIn estimate).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Ribbit Capital (lead Series B), Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI venture fund, lead Series A), Y Combinator (W21 batch). Also backed by the CEOs of Uber, DoorDash, and OpenAI.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 63.6% YoY to 133 employees (as of mid-2026). Active job postings increased 261.9% year-over-year. Operates in 24 countries. Engineering team distributed across 14 countries.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Vertically integrated platform**: Single OS that handles carrier relationships, compliance (as Carrier of Record), billing, taxes, and customer support – replacing ten vendors.
- **Carrier of Record**: Gigs takes full telecom compliance off the partner’s plate, minimizing legal and regulatory risk.
- **Top-tier backing**: Investors include Ribbit Capital, Google’s Gradient Ventures, and Y Combinator, plus endorsements from industry leaders.
- **Developer-first approach**: Clean API, OpenAPI spec, and extensive documentation designed for fast integration.
- **Multi-carrier, multi-market**: One API across premium networks in multiple countries, enabling rapid geographic expansion.

## Strategic Focus
- Expand embedded telecom into new verticals like fintech (bank card + SIM), travel, and employee plans.
- Scale the Operator AI agent to further reduce support overhead and improve self-service.
- Continue extracting services from the monolith into a more distributed system (Go microservices) to support growing complexity.
- Grow headcount aggressively, especially in engineering, sales, and partner management.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first culture**: No requirement to be in an office; team members are based in 14 countries. Travel perks to hubs and co-working spaces.
- **Hubs and pads**: Physical workspaces in San Francisco, London, Berlin, New York, and Amsterdam with free bedrooms for visiting Gigsters.
- **Bi-annual offsites**: Legendary company-wide gatherings twice a year for in-person collaboration.
- **Engineering culture**: Modern stack – Ruby on Rails monolith with Go services, Next.js/TypeScript frontend, GCP, Terraform, event-driven architecture (PubSub). Strong emphasis on performance, consistency, and developer experience.
- **Flexible workplace model**: Employees can work from home, hubs, or co-working spaces (company-paid).
- **High growth environment**: 63%+ headcount growth, active hiring across multiple roles, opportunity to shape a rapidly scaling platform.
- **Diverse team**: Employees from top companies like Stripe, Adyen, Revolut, Uber, and Klarna.

## Sources
1. [gigs.com](https://gigs.com/) – Company homepage and product descriptions
2. [gigs.com/careers](https://gigs.com/careers) – Careers page, culture, and benefits
3. [gigs.com/engineering](https://gigs.com/engineering) – Engineering culture, tech stack, and remote policy
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/meetgigs) – LinkedIn company profile (headcount, revenue, funding, growth)
5. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gigs/jobs) – Y Combinator company profile (founding details, batch, size)

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