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Our mission is to make wellness more accessible by empowering studios and wellness entrepreneurs to grow beyond in-person classes. We provide a powerful, all-in-one platform to manage and scale hybrid wellness businesses, whether online, in-person, or both.\nWith Arketa, studios can manage schedules, accept bookings and payments, build on-demand video libraries, host retreats, run automated marketing, and launch fully branded apps and websites. We make it simple for founders to deliver a seamless, professional experience across every customer touchpoint. We've raised $15M in Series A funding and are growing quickly. It's a unique moment to join us. We're building a category-defining company in a fast-moving space, and we're looking for a leader who is excited to help shape what world-class partner support looks like in the wellness category.\nAbout the Role\nWe're bringing accounting in house, and you'll be the person who owns it. As our Controller and right hand to our VP of Finance, you'll take full ownership of bookkeeping, the month-end close, financial reporting, tax, and audit, raising the bar on accuracy and building the foundation leadership relies on to make strategic decisions.\nThis role flexes both ways. Day to day, you'll be hands-on in the books, running close and reconciliations yourself. You'll start as an individual contributor for your first 6 to 12 months, with a clear path to Senior Controller leading a small team as the function grows.\nAbout the Team\nYou'll join our Finance team as the first in-house accounting hire, working directly with our VP of Finance. Accounting has been supported by outsourced partners up to now, and as Arketa grows we're ready for someone with a true owner's mindset to build the function from the ground up. You'll have high visibility with our leadership team and partner closely with our external auditors and tax advisors. \nWhat You'll Do:\nMonth-end close & financial reporting: Drive a timely, accurate close and produce monthly financial statements that leadership can trust and act on.\n\nInternal controls & GL structure: Design and maintain the control environment, including correct account and department mapping, clean categorization rules, and documentation that will hold up under audit scrutiny.\n\nTax compliance & coordination: Manage tax filings and coordination with external tax partners, including credits (e.g., R&D) and multi-state considerations.\n\nPayables & receivables: Manage the full AP/AR cycle, including vendor bill pay, employee reimbursements, invoicing, and collections, ensuring nothing sits stale or miscategorized.\n\nBookkeeping & accounting operations: Own day-to-day bookkeeping alongside higher-level accounting: transaction categorization, journal entries, and general ledger maintenance across our banking, payroll, payments, and accounting systems. Use AI to speed up repetitive, time-consuming work while applying your own judgment to get it right.\n\nAudit leadership: Serve as primary liaison to our external audit firm, prepare schedules, respond to PBC requests, and manage the audit timeline.\n\nWhat success looks like:\nFirst 30 days: Take ownership of the books from our outsourced partner, learn our systems (banking, payroll, Stripe, Brex, accounting), run your first month-end close, and have audit prep underway for the December kickoff.\n\nFirst 60 days: Serve as the day-to-day lead with our auditors through fieldwork, delivering schedules and PBC requests on time, while tightening GL mapping and categorization rules.\n\nFirst 90 days: Deliver a consistent and reliable monthly close, have core internal controls documented, and be on track to take bookkeeping accuracy to 99%.\n\nWhat we're looking for:\nTypically 5+ years of progressive accounting experience. We care more about relevance than tenure, so a strong candidate with 3 to 4 years doing exactly this work is encouraged to apply.\n\nStrong foundation from public accounting or the finance team of an established company, ideally followed by time in a high-ownership, early-stage environment\n\nDeep command of core accounting: month-end close, financial reporting, internal controls, payables and receivables, and tax\n\nA high-ownership mindset and genuine enjoyment of hands-on work\n\nComfort with ambiguity and building process where none exists\n\nBest-in-class attention to detail and an unwavering commitment to accuracy\n\nYou use AI to move faster on repetitive, time-consuming tasks while still exercising your own judgment\n\nBonus:\nCPA\n\nPrior audit experience, ideally from the company side (preparing schedules, responding to PBC requests, managing the audit timeline)\n\nFamiliarity with Stripe and Brex (or similar tools) and experience managing books across multiple systems without a single unified ERP\n\nYou Should Apply If\nYou're smart, a little bored in your current role, and hungry for a bigger challenge\n\nYou want to build a finance function from scratch with real visibility and ownership\n\nYou trained in public accounting or a large company and are ready to own the whole picture at an early-stage company\n\nYou want to be hands-on today with a clear path to Senior Controller and a team\n\nYou're mission-driven and excited about wellness becoming more accessible\n\nYou May Not Want to Apply If\nYou prefer the structure and defined scope of a large, slower-moving environment\n\nYou'd rather manage the work than do it yourself\n\nYou need fully built-out processes to be effective\n\nYou want a slower pace or a more established later-stage environment\n\nWhat We Offer:\nOwnership and Opportunity for Advancement\n\nCompetitive Salary and Stock Options\n\nUnlimited PTO: our policy is designed to give you the flexibility to rest, recharge, and take care of personal needs, while staying aligned with your team and responsibilities.\n\nMedical, dental and vision health insurance\n\nFitness Class Reimbursement: we're committed to supporting both employee wellness and our industry relationships. As an Arketa employee we see movement as opportunity.\n\nParental Leave Policy\n\nFor this role, the estimated annual base salary is $110,000 to $160,000, depending on experience and qualifications. In addition to base pay, we offer equity. 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