Controller

The posting, as Snout wrote it

🐶 Our mission

Every pet should get the care they need, regardless of cost. Vet med prices are up 40% since 2020, and pet owners are stuck having to pick between their bank account and furry friend. At Snout, we aim to solve this by enabling clinics to offer wellness plans that actually work .

🚀 The opportunity

Snout is one of the fastest growing wellness plan providers in the veterinary space, trusted by clinics across the U.S. We’re a small but mighty startup team of Controller , the foundational accounting seat at the company. You'll join early enough that everything you build becomes the way it's done, taking us from a fractional accounting provider to an in-house finance function you help design from the ground up. This is a hybrid role based in the New York metro area.

💻 The role

As Snout’s Controller, you'll own the general ledger, the monthly close, and the integrity of our books as we transition from a fractional accounting provider to an in-house finance function you help design from scratch. You'll inherit a working but outsourced ledger, and within two quarters you'll own a close process, a documented revenue recognition policy, and a successful audit kickoff. This isn't a maintenance role: our financial statements are covenant deliverables under a committed debt facility, and Snout operates as Servicer at member-transaction scale, so precision matters from day one. This role reports directly to the CFO.

You will be an early hire in a rapidly scaling finance organization spanning accounting, capital markets, data and analytics, and FP&A — the foundational finance role at a category-defining company, with the growth in front of it rather than behind it. In your first year, you'll take Snout through its first GAAP audit, serving as the named accounting counterpart to our auditors and our institutional credit facility lender. You'll build and document a revenue recognition policy for a genuinely novel membership-plan model, own the reporting our lender depends on for covenant compliance, coordinate tax cleanup with outside advisors, and design the cash and payment controls that keep member and clinic money moving safely. It's a role that starts as a hands-on, AI-empowered seat of one, with real room to grow into leading a team as the business scales, and everything you build now becomes the foundation the finance function stands on.

If you've built the “close” before it existed and "first audit" sounds exciting rather than daunting, we'd love to hear from you!

Snout is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We know that great candidates may not check every box — and that’s okay. If you're excited about this role and our mission, we encourage you to apply if you meet at least 75% of qualifications including the first bullet. If you need any accommodations during the application or interview process, please let us know — we’re happy to support you.

🛠 What you’ll do

• Close and ledger: full ownership of the ge

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Experience operating under lender reporting obligations: covenant packages, compliance certificates, and monthly deliverables with contractual deadlines

• Comfort building accounting systems rather than inheriting them, working from imperfect data, and sequencing pragmatically
• A builder's temperament: high standards, low ego, and the judgment to know which problems need to be solved perfectly and which just need to be solved

🌟 What will make you stand out

• Startup experience at a Series A-C company where the finance function didn't exist before you
• A track record of early and repeated promotion, or controller-level scope before holding the title
• Experience as the final escalation point on accounting questions, with no one above you to hand the hard call to
• Policies, close processes, or systems you've built that outlived your tenure and are still in use

💖 Why you should join Snout

• Fast growing, venture capital backed technology company focused on improving access to veterinary care
• Ability to have a meaningful impact from Day 1, where your voice and opinion matters
• Unlimited potential to grow in your career, learn and expand your skillsets
• Collaborative, flexible, and friendly culture

❌ Why this role might not be a fit for you

• You don’t live in the New York Metro area and don't want to go into an office, or have the flexibility to travel quarterly
• You want an established close process and finance team already in place, rather than the chance to build them
• You'd rather participate in an audit than own one
• You're looking for a role where AI is optional rather than core to how you work
• The pace and uncertainty of startup life feels destabilizing rather than energizing
• You don't have a connection to animals or an affinity for our mission

💸 Compensation

• $160 000 - $200 000 base salary
• Equity

⚕️ Benefits

• Day 1 medical/dental/vision benefits
• Flexible time off + 11 Snout calendar holidays
• Paid parental leave