Position Details
Controller
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Summary
You are an experienced accounting professional who has paid their dues and has a ‘house’ full of skills and experience. We NEED you! Our serious side is balanced with our fun and healthy sides, and it is reflected in our workplace. Your contribution here will matter – as will you as an individual. As we grow our global reach as a company – sharing truth-seeking and transformational stories, scientific research, and whole health-oriented offerings – we will be contributing and empowering the evolution of consciousness to our communities and planet. We are a work from work organization located in a beautiful office on our campus in Louisville, Colorado. Come join us!
At Gaia, soft skills are key to success. We seek candidates with strong interpersonal abilities – effective communication, teamwork, prioritization, and problem solving – who can adapt to change, manage conflicts with empathy, and collaborate well with diverse teams. While technical skills matter, we highly value those who build positive relationships, contribute to a supportive culture, and approach challenges with a solution-oriented mindset. If this sounds like you, you’ll thrive in our dynamic environment.
Responsibilities
Reporting to the CFO, the Controller leads the Company’s financial activities and accounting team, with accountabilities including:
- Design and lead initiatives to optimize accounting organization structure, systems, and procedures for achieving the department’s goals and objectives and supporting FP&A team needs.
- Manage the accounting for complex financial transactions and subsidiary consolidations
- Manage all accounting functions, including day-to-day operations and month-end closing process.
- Manage, coach and mentor members of the accounting team
- Maintain the general ledger and oversee preparation of GAAP financial statements and other financial reports, ensuring financial integrity
- Manage SEC and other reporting, including filings of 10-Q’s, 10-K’s, 8-K’s
- Responsible for design, effective operation, and ongoing assessment and enhancement of internal controls over financial reporting, and other financial policies and procedures
- Manage the general ledger accounting, accounts payable and receivable, payroll, and other operational accounting functions
- Oversee and maintain a system of tracking and reporting on costs of internally produced content
- Ensure proper operation of revenue platform as well as a timely close of revenue
- Manage outsourced functions, including tax preparation, financial audits, and others as needed
- Work directly with the Company’s independent auditors, own the annual and quarterly financial audits including coordination and preparation of all necessary statements and contextual documents according to relevant
- Drive compliance and filings for Local Sales tax with Avalara as vendor
- Perform Building rent roll and annual CAM reconciliations, prepare and provide all required documentation of building financials to mortgage holder.
- Assist in the preparation of annual operating budgets and monthly financial projections
- Assist with corporate financial decisions and providing advice to the business
Qualifications
A dynamic, entrepreneurial, and proactive solutions-oriented mindset with a drive to streamline operations who possesses:
- 10+ years of relevant accounting experience, including managing an accounting department in a fast-growing tech environment
- A “big picture” focus while ensuring short-term goals are accomplished through leadership and hands-on execution
- Strong interpersonal skills, facilitating organization-wide collaboration from a place of care, curiosity, and clear communication.
- Meticulous attention to detail and ability to set and meet challenging deadlines
- Excellent leadership, critical thinking, and project management skills
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance and CPA license required
- Deep expertise in U.S. GAAP
- Advanced Excel skills
We hope you also have:
- Passion for conscious media, social impact, and driving positive change in the world
- Experience leading accounting in a publicly traded or (at a minimum) externally audited company
- Public accounting background
- SEC reporting experience
- SOX experience
- We offer a generous benefits package designed to support the overall well-being of our Team Members:
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Employer paid life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance
- Paid time off and holidays
- 401K plan with company match
- Flexible spending accounts for health care, dependent care, and transportation and parking
- Employee assistance program
Other perks include:
- Beautiful solar-powered, non-smoking campus with an outdoor space to be enjoyed with walking trails and a waterfall.
- On-site organic café includes a full espresso bar and serves breakfast and lunch daily, often featuring harvests fresh from Gaia’s own garden
- On-site gym
- Private room for use for meditation and by new mother for their lactation needs
- US citizenship or US residency with an existing work permit is required
- Non-smoker
- Must be available to work in our campus in Louisville, CO. This is not a remote role.
Compensation
- Type: Salary
- Range: $150000 - $190000 (USD)
More About Gaia
Gaia exists as a transformational network to empower a global conscious community.
Gaia (Nasdaq: GAIA) is a publicly traded company in Louisville, Colorado. We offer global video streaming of over 8,000 original series, shows, films, documentaries, and practices for conscious living to our members in over 190 countries. Our vast video library serves as a vessel for the community we seek to empower. We are not a subscription service that streams whatever pays our bills. Our content goes deep into select niches of Seeking Truth, Transformation, Alternative Health and Yoga channels. We often cover subjects that other media companies won’t touch.
We expect you did explore Gaia’s library of original shows, documentaries, and films. If our work on ancient wisdom, who are we, our true history, coverups, and metaphysics resonates, you might be a good fit for Gaia. We seek to hire and inspire employees who embrace our mission to empower a global conscious community, who hope their work empowers our community of inspired members, to be a catalyst of transformation. The best work we do every day is to remember our vision is “to empower the evolution of consciousness.”
The perks of working collaboratively with a team dedicated to sharing this mission include an on-site gym; a beautiful solar-powered campus, complete with hiking and running trails, community garden, and a labyrinth; and an on-site, mostly organic café that serves breakfast and lunch daily including a full-service espresso bar featuring locally roasted coffee.
Full-time employees are offered alternative and traditional medical benefits including preventative coverage; as well as dental, vision, 401K, and life insurance.