Assistant Controller
Shippo
Accounting & Finance
United States
Posted on Dec 2, 2025
Here at Shippo, we are the shipping layer of the internet and we consider ourselves to be one of the core building blocks of e-commerce. Our mission is to make merchants successful through world class shipping. With our products and solutions, we level the playing field by providing our customers with best-in-class solutions that otherwise wouldn’t be available to them. Through Shippo, e-commerce businesses, marketplaces, platforms and a variety of logistics infrastructure providers are able to connect to shipping carriers around the world from one API and dashboard. We provide our customers with the most competitive shipping rates, print labels, automated international documents, shipment tracking, facilitate the returns process and more.
Our Finance team plays a crucial role in safeguarding the financial accuracy and stability needed to support Shippo’s mission, ensuring our teams can operate confidently and make well-informed decisions that help merchants succeed.
How we’ll deliver success:
Shippo’s Finance team is seeking a Senior Manager/Director, Assistant Controller to lead and scale core operational accounting processes across payroll, equity administration, benefits, accounts payable, reimbursements, operating expenses, and tax.
The Assistant Controller is responsible for ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting, leading the operational accounting team, and implementing reliable processes that support Shippo’s growth. The scope of this role includes ownership of key month-end close workflows, driving consistency across accounting operations, managing critical financial systems such as Ramp and Netsuite, and partnering cross-functionally with People Ops, Strategic Finance, Legal, and external auditors and advisors.
Success will be measured through close accuracy and timeliness, operational efficiency, clarity of process ownership, quality of documentation, control strength, and overall team development.
Success criteria:
- This candidate will own the close calendar, with an eye to accelerating the month-end close process and increasing accuracy of the results.
- As we migrate our key hire-to-pay and procure-to-pay systems, this candidate will drive efficiency with these new tools by revising our AP, payroll, equity, and Opex processes with the specific DRIs on the accounting team (currently a team of 6).
-The ideal candidate will drive:
- Faster audit completion (for both group consolidated and local statutory audits)
- Increased efficiency through process automation and workflow redesign
- High team engagement, clear ownership, and reduced operational friction
Shipping & Handling Responsibilities:
- Lead operational accounting functions including payroll accounting, benefits, 401(k) accounting and administration, equity administration, accounts payable, expense reimbursements, and operating expense accounting
- Own the month-end close for assigned areas, ensuring accurate, timely, and GAAP-compliant reporting
- Develop and maintain accounting policies, documentation, reconciliations, and review procedures across operational areas, with a focus on ensuring timely high-risk account reconciliations
- Coordinate with external tax advisors to support corporate tax compliance and audit inquiries
- Identify and implement process improvements, automation opportunities, and system enhancements to strengthen accounting workflows
- Lead and mentor a high-performing operational accounting team, creating clarity around ownership, expectations, and development paths
- Collaborate cross-functionally with FP&A, Legal, and department leaders to ensure aligned budgeting, spend visibility, and operational accuracy
Your Shipping Requirements:
- 10+ years of progressive accounting experience with increasing leadership responsibilities
- Strong experience across operational accounting areas (e.g., payroll, benefits, equity, AP and operating expenses, and tax)
- Deep understanding of U.S. GAAP and operational accounting best practices, CPA strongly preferred
- Experience using Ramp for AP, expense management, and corporate card administration. Experience using Ramp for procurement management a plus
- Experience with Netsuite or comparable ERP systems
- Demonstrated ability to build scalable accounting processes in a high-growth environment
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to partner effectively across teams
- Proven ability to lead, coach, and develop accounting professionals at multiple levels
- Experience in SaaS, fintech, or marketplace businesses
- Experience owning external audits and facilitating tax preparation
- Familiarity with equity administration platforms and payroll systems
- Background working in distributed or remote-first teams
Nice to have:
What is in the Shippo Package? (for US Only)
- Healthcare coverage for medical, dental, and vision (90% on average covered by the company, incl. dependents). Pets coverage is also available!
- Take-as-much-as-you-need vacation policy & flexible working
- Shippo will contribute money into a Health Savings Account (HSA) on your behalf. $500 individually and $1,000 for family.
- Shippo Pays 100% of the Following Benefits for Employees: Guardian Basic Life and AD&D, Guardian Short Term Disability, Guardian Long Term Disability, Guardian Employee Assistance Program
- One week-long company wide winter shutdown
- 3 Volunteer Days Off (VTOs)
- WFH stipend to set up your home office
- Charity donation match up to $100
- Dedicated programs, coaching, tools, and resources for your professional and career growth as well as an individual learning stipend for your personal and focused growth
- Fun team in person time through our Shippos Everywhere program which includes regular team and company off-sites throughout the year as well as local Shippos gatherings
We believe compensation is a custom experience and are committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The standard base pay range for this role is min is $147k to a max $149k annual salary. We tend to anchor our pay in the middle of this range ($173k). Since we are focused on hiring Shippos Everywhere, we have 2 US pay ranges, a standard compensation range for the majority of the US and a standard +1 compensation range for those who live in areas where the cost of labor is higher, such as NYC and California.
The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: financial budgets, work experience, training, transferable skills, business needs, and market value. The base pay salary ranges are subject to change and may be modified in the future. Total compensation for this role will include, equity, medical, dental, vision and other benefits noted in our Shippos “package” section.
Sail through the process:
Here at Shippo, we celebrate inclusivity and are committed to creating equal access to opportunities for people from all backgrounds, perspectives and geographies. These values define who we are and everything we do. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. If you need assistance, or a reasonable accommodation during the application and recruiting process, please contact us at accommodations@goshippo.com
Shippos in the wild:
Our people, much like the packages we help ship, are all over the world. This means, through our remote-first program, “Shippos Everywhere”, our roles can be based anywhere in the US with the exception of Delaware, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Hawaii, New Mexico and West Virginia and many roles can be based internationally.
For locations outside of the US and Ireland, the employment contracts are powered by Remote.com. What we want to emphasize is that you can be successful at Shippo regardless of location.
147000 - 199000 USD a year