In PersonIn-office at the Union Square office in New York.
AccountingFinancial Accounting
About the job
Requirements
Have 8–12 years of accounting experience combining public accounting and industry experience.
Hold a CPA credential.
Have technology industry experience; SaaS, data, or information services experience is preferred, particularly with consumption- or usage-based pricing.
Have applied ASC 606 to live contracts, preferably across subscription, usage, and services models.
Have owned multiple annual audits from the company side rather than as a staff contributor.
Have deep working knowledge of GAAP, including the ability to research accounting questions, write a memo, and defend the conclusion later.
Have demonstrated ownership of a monthly close, including multi-entity and multi-currency accounting.
Have experience strengthening an inherited close process or control environment.
Be comfortable with current AI models and tooling.
Be able to work in-office in New York.
Responsibilities
Own the ASC 606 policy across four revenue streams: tiered platform subscriptions, credit consumption, advisory engagements, and research licensing.
Read commercial contracts and advise on deal structure before signature.
Build and maintain the revenue schedule, including deferred balances on unconsumed credits.
Run the monthly close on a published calendar and move it to five business days.
Own the chart of accounts, reconciliations, accruals, and month-end reporting.
Direct and review the work of outsourced accounting partners.
Build and document the control environment.
Lead the annual financial audit end-to-end, including scoping, schedules, request lists, and technical positions.
Support the SOC 2 Type 2 surveillance cycle on financial and access controls.
Own accounting for payroll across five countries, including the 2027 employer-of-record transition.
Allocate cost by entity and line of business: Platform and Data, Advisory, and Audience and Influence.
Produce the monthly close package and the financial sections of board materials with the CFO.
Desired Qualifications
An MBA or CFA is a strong plus.
Multi-country payroll, employer-of-record, or PEO experience is a plus.
SaaS, data, or information services experience is preferred, particularly experience with consumption- or usage-based pricing.
Liminal is the actionable intelligence company. We've built a proprietary Living Graph — a verified knowledge architecture that maps the real-time structure of Identity, Fraud, and Cybersecurity — and the agentic AI systems and human verification layer to make it trustworthy. Visa, Mastercard, Google, and JPMC use it to make strategic and revenue decisions. Series A, 80 people, offices in NYC, Salt Lake City, Porto, Lisbon, and Manila. The architecture works, the customers are real, and we're scaling the team.
About the role
Own the accounting function for a venture-backed strategy and technology firm growing across six markets. Reporting to the CFO, you will run the monthly close, own revenue recognition across four commercial models, build the control environment, and lead the annual audit. Liminal has invested in a layered finance function: an experienced fractional CFO team covering FP&A, treasury, and strategic finance, and outsourced specialists handling transaction processing. You are the full-time accounting leader inside the business who connects them and owns the books.
What Success Looks Like
30 days: You know how Liminal makes money. Contracts read, revenue streams mapped, close process walked end-to-end with the outsourced team, auditor relationship established.
90 days: Two closes complete and documented. Written ASC 606 memo covering all four revenue streams, with open positions identified and a recommendation on each.
1 year: Clean audit opinion with no material adjustments. Monthly close lands in five business days. Line-of-business reporting runs on a published calendar without rework.
What you'll do
Own the ASC 606 policy across four revenue streams: tiered platform subscriptions, credit consumption, advisory engagements and research licensing
Read commercial contracts and advise on deal structure before signature, not after
Build and maintain the revenue schedule, including deferred balances on unconsumed credits
Run the monthly close on a published calendar, moving to five business days
Own the chart of accounts, reconciliations, accruals and month-end reporting
Direct and review the work of outsourced accounting partners
Build and document the control environment
Lead the annual financial audit end-to-end: scoping, schedules, request lists, and technical positions
Support the SOC 2 Type 2 surveillance cycle on financial and access controls
Own accounting for payroll across five countries, including the 2027 employer of record transition
Allocate cost by entity and line of business: Platform and Data, Advisory, Audience and Influence
Produce the monthly close package and the financial sections of board materials with the CFO
What We're Looking For
8–12 years in accounting, combining public accounting and industry
CPA required
Technology industry experience required; SaaS, data or information services preferred, particularly consumption or usage-based pricing
ASC 606 applied to live contracts, not studied. Subscription plus usage plus services is the closest profile
Multiple annual audits owned from the company side, not as a staff contributor
Deep working GAAP. You can research a question, write a memo and defend the conclusion a year later
Demonstrated ownership of a monthly close, including multi-entity and multi-currency
Experience strengthening a close process or control environment you inherited
Comfort with the latest AI models and tooling. Liminal uses AI heavily across the business and expects finance to do the same
MBA or CFA a strong plus
Multi-country payroll, employer of record or PEO experience a plus
Ability to work in-office in New York
What We Offer
$165,000–$190,000 base salary, plus a performance bonus and equity
Direct exposure to the CFO, the CEO and the board
The opportunity to build the accounting function and own how it works
Medical, dental and vision coverage; 401(k); flexible PTO
In-office at our Union Square office, 200 Park Avenue South