Assistant Controller

ABOUT HANDSHAKE Handshake was founded on a simple belief that everyone deserves a path to a great career, regardless of where they went to school or who they know. Today, we power 25 million job seekers, 1 million+ employers, and 1,600 educational institutions. In 2025, we started Handshake AI and built the fastest-growing AI data business in history. We work directly with frontier AI lab researchers to create evaluations, publish benchmarks, and push the boundary of data. We've grown from $0 to ~$1B run rate and pay ~$60M to over 30K individuals every month. Why join Handshake now: - Shape how every career evolves in the AI economy, at global scale, with impact your friends, family and peers can see and feel - Partner hand-in-hand with world-class AI labs, Fortune 500 partners and the world's top educational institutions - Work together with engineers, scientists, operators, and more from Palantir, Meta, Scale AI, and former YC founders - Build a massive, fast-growing business with billions in revenue ABOUT THE ROLE Reporting to the Senior Director of Finance, the Assistant Controller owns general accounting — month-end close, consolidation, and financial reporting — for a rapidly growing company, including three initiatives that will define the role's first stretch: standing up a new AI-native close management tool, leading Handshake's first PCAOB audit-readiness uplift, and integrating recent M&A activity into close management and procure-to-pay. You'll thrive here if you're comfortable operating in ambiguous, ever-changing environments and building process where little exists today. - Own month-end close, consolidation, and financial reporting, including treasury, foreign subsidiaries, and inter-company transactions, to keep the business on accurate, audit-ready footing - Lead the rollout of a new AI-native close management tool, driving better automation across NetSuite and the broader close process - Own Handshake's first PCAOB audit-readiness initiative, buil

Department: General & Administrative; Team: Finance & Accounting