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Eudia - Palo Alto, CA, United States - In-office - posted 2026-10-12

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Salary: USD 230,000 - 275,000 / annual

Eudia is an AI-powered legal tech platform backed by $105M in Series A funding from General Catalyst. The company is transforming legal departments through augmented intelligence, working with Fortune 500 clients including Cargill, Coherent, DHL, and Duracell. You will own the accounting function end-to-end and build it for scale as the company grows from Series A and beyond. This is a player-coach role where you lead and develop the accounting team while staying hands-on in the work. Key responsibilities include: **Close and Reporting:** Own monthly, quarterly, and annual closes for the US business. Consolidate and sign off on financials for international entities and multiple business units. Manage intercompany accounting, eliminations, and foreign currency across the group. Build a fast, repeatable close calendar and deliver monthly financial statements and reporting packages to leadership. **Revenue and Technical Accounting:** Set and own revenue recognition policy under ASC 606 across subscription, consumption, and services revenue. Write technical accounting memos for new pricing models, including outcome-based AI pricing. Own policies for commissions, capitalized software, and leases. Define cost of revenue policy for AI inference, model API, and hosting costs. Partner with Sales and Legal to review contract terms. **Audit, Controls, and Compliance:** Lead the annual financial statement audit. Design, document, and test internal controls that scale with the business. Oversee tax compliance with external advisors, including income, sales and use, and international tax. Drive accounting and compliance for government contracts as the public sector business scales. **Equity, Investors, and Board:** Own equity administration, including cap table, 409A valuations, and stock-based compensation. Prepare investor and board reporting. Support fundraising and due diligence. **Team, Systems, and Operations:** Lead and develop the accounting team as a hands-on player-coach. Hire and scale the team as the company grows. Own the finance systems stack, including ERP, billing, spend management, and payroll integrations. Reconcile usage data to billing and the general ledger end-to-end. Use AI and automation to remove manual work from the close. Oversee accounts payable, billing, collections, payroll accounting, and cash management. **Requirements:** - 10+ years of accounting experience, including time in Big Four public accounting - Active CPA license - Controller-level experience at a venture-backed SaaS company - Experience building the controllership function from scratch at a startup - Deep revenue recognition expertise for SaaS and AI consumption-based pricing under ASC 606 - Track record of owning the monthly close and leading external audits - Experience consolidating multi-entity financials, including international entities - Experience with investor reporting, board reporting, and equity management - Track record of leading and developing an accounting team as a player-coach - Experience implementing and managing modern finance systems, including ERP, usage-based billing, and AI automation tools - Collaborative, can-do attitude - Based in the San Francisco Bay Area **Nice to have:** - Experience with government contracts, including FAR and GSA schedule requirements - Experience with SOX implementation, IPO readiness, or public company reporting

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