Senior Financial Controller

Building and growing products for curious, ambitious people who want to learn and keep getting better. Sounds like your kind of space?

Our apps help people learn and level up in different areas of life. Deepstash is a micro-learning platform with millions of users consuming bite-sized insights on everything from psychology to productivity. Paladin teaches history through interactive, narrative-driven experiences. Protocol focuses on longevity and personal optimization, helping people make better decisions for their long-term performance. Empirio makes finance, strategy, and business thinking fast, practical, and actually useful. Dilemmo helps people understand themselves through the choices they make in short, thought-provoking dilemmas.

Together, our products serve over 10 million users worldwide.

Behind them is a team of nearly 100 awesome people based in Bucharest, led by repeat founders who've already built and successfully exited a global product company, but somehow decided to do it all over again. Bigger, better, even more fun this time.

We're a fast-growing consumer scaleup with strong unit economics and a proven ability to build, launch, and scale multiple products in parallel - fast, deliberately, and without unnecessary ceremony. Our current focus is on scaling what already works, expanding the product portfolio with the same core DNA, and strengthening the systems that let us move lightning-fast without breaking (too much) stuff.

This tends to be a great place and time for people who are comfortable making decisions, owning the outcome, and don't need a committee to get good work out the door. Here is how you would fit in:

The Role

In a short time we've grown from around 20 people to nearly 100, from one product to several, and to revenue that keeps growing fast across a long list of countries and tax jurisdictions. Finance grew the way most things grow in a scaleup: a smart patchwork of external accountants, tax advisors, fractional CFOs and an operations team covering the gaps.

Now we're rearranging it on purpose. We're deciding what stays in-house, what gets outsourced, what gets automated and who owns what. As our Senior Financial Controller, you'll play a pivotal role in putting the pieces of this puzzle together, side by side with our COO and CFO team.

This is not a back-office seat. You'll be the person who keeps the whole finance network - accounting partners, tax advisors, banks, payment providers, our CFOs and the teams spending the money - running on one calendar, with clean numbers and clear owners.

We're looking for someone like us: a doer who doesn't take themselves too seriously, takes the work very seriously, and gets a real kick out of getting things done.

What you'd actually do

• Own the monthly close and reporting cycle: revenue, costs and balance sheet closed on a fixed timetable, including expenses and AP, accruals and deferred revenue, and the management reporting leadership runs the business on
• Run the short-term cash forecast: a rolling 13-week view updated weekly and tracked against actuals, with early warning of potential concerns
• Own indirect tax compliance, including nexus monitoring, the data behind the returns and the filing calendar. Be the first point of contact for our accounting and tax partners: know what's due, chase what's missing, review what comes back and flag what doesn't add up
• Keep the group view clean: the intercompany setup and its documentation, group-level corporate finance topics and consolidated reporting, with our CFOs on the specialist calls
• Run the finance workstreams on the table so each one has an owner, a plan and a deadline
• Automate as you go: data pipelines, dashboards and AI-assisted workflows, built on the same data and tools our product teams already use

How the role rolls out

1. Take over. You step into the close and reporting cycle that runs today and own it, learning the business through its numbers.
2. Map. You map who does what across our team, partners and tools, and where the manual work and the gaps are hiding.
3. Rearrange. Together with the COO and CFOs, you align what comes in-house, what stays with partners and what gets automated, then put the new setup in place.
4. Automate and scale. Recurring work turns into systems, partners focus on specialist work, leadership gets forward-looking numbers without asking, and finance stays ahead of the next stage of growth.

What We're Looking For

Must-haves:

• A professional accounting qualification - ACCA, CECCAR or equivalent
• 5+ years in financial control or financial accounting, including at least two owning a month-end close end to end as controller or equivalent
• Solid accounting fundamentals and comfort with multi-entity, multi-currency and intercompany setups
• Cash discipline - you've run a short-term cash forecast and know what moves it week to week
• Data fluency - strong spreadsheets plus SQL, BigQuery or similar, or the drive to get there fast, we can help
• Process instinct - when a task repeats, you design it out of your week
• Bias for action - you'd rather fix it than write a memo about it
• Partner management - you keep accountants and advisors on schedule and push back when an answer doesn't hold up
• AI fluency - you already use AI tools in your work and want to use them more
• Fluent English and Romanian
• Comfortable saying "this number is wrong" out loud

Strong signals:

• You've worked in a tech scaleup, ideally subscription, mobile apps or another digital consumer business
• You've built finance automations or worked closely with engineers or data teams
• You've been part of reshaping a finance function: bringing work in-house, outsourcing, changing tools
• Exposure to multi-jurisdiction tax compliance, including indirect sales taxes and transfer pricing

You don't need:

• Big 4 pedigree
• A ready-made corporate finance department to inherit
• To take yourself too seriously
• Permission to automate - it's expected

What You Get

• A seat at the table while we redesign how finance works, with direct exposure to the founders and leadership
• Real ownership from day one, and room to grow as the finance function grows
• Freedom to build systems instead of just maintaining them
• Hybrid setup in Bucharest (office 3+ days a week) and a competitive salary
• The best fun you can have while working with numbers. Yes, we checked.

Interested?

Send your CV to join@deepstash.com, subject line "Senior Financial Controller", plus:

1. Why now?
2. One finance process you built, fixed or automated - and what changed because of it.
3. A time a number didn't add up. How did you find it, and what did you do?