CloudKitchens

Chief Accounting Officer

CloudKitchens$300K — $360K *
Legal & Accounting
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 15+ years of progressive accounting leadership experience.
  • CPA with Big Four public accounting roots required.
  • Experience leading large, global, multi-entity accounting organizations.
  • Proven success in scaling high-growth businesses and navigating complexity.
  • Experience with IPO readiness, public company environments, and transformation efforts desirable.
  • Strong systems orientation with a history of automation and process improvements.
  • Exceptional communication skills with an ability to influence across the organization.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the global accounting organization across multiple regions.
  • Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes ensuring accuracy.
  • Drive transformation initiatives, systems improvements, and process automation.
  • Lead financial cleanup efforts and build scalable infrastructure.
  • Strengthen internal controls, accounting policies, and governance frameworks.
  • Partner with various leaders across Finance, Tax, and Legal.
  • Support audit readiness and long-term IPO initiatives.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance (multiple plans, including HSA options).
  • Company-paid life and disability insurance.
  • Voluntary insurance options for accident and critical illness.
  • 401(k) plan available.
  • Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare and dependent care.
  • Discretionary vacation days plus paid sick time.
  • Paid parental leave and bereavement leave.
Full Job Description
What you'll do

Reporting to the CFO, you'll own worldwide accounting for a dynamic, multifaceted business - multi-entity and multi-geography, spanning real estate, software, marketplace platforms, and emerging hardware, with active M&A and a meaningful balance sheet. We are looking for a builder: you'll lead the transformation of the accounting function as we scale - strengthening controls, re-architecting how data flows, rationalizing the legal-entity structure, owning technical accounting and the external audit, and building toward eventual IPO/SOX readiness.

  • Lead the global accounting organization, including regional controllers and accounting leaders across multiple entities and geographies.
  • Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes, ensuring accuracy, scalability, and operational excellence.
  • Drive accounting transformation initiatives, systems improvements, process automation, and organizational design enhancements.
  • Lead complex financial cleanup and remediation efforts, building scalable infrastructure in an evolving, high-growth environment.
  • Strengthen internal controls, accounting policies, governance frameworks, and financial reporting processes.
  • Partner closely with Finance, Tax, Treasury, FP&A, Legal, and operational leaders across the company.
  • Support audit readiness, technical accounting matters, and long-term IPO preparedness initiatives.
  • Evaluate and optimize processes, technology, and team structures to increase efficiency, leverage, and business partnership.
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to the CFO and executive leadership team on accounting, controllership, and finance transformation priorities.
  • Help establish the systems, processes, and organizational foundations required to support the company's future growth and public-company aspirations.


What we're looking for
  • 15+ years of progressive accounting leadership experience.
  • CPA, with roots in Big Four public accounting required.
  • Experience leading large, global, multi-entity accounting organizations.
  • Proven success scaling high-growth businesses and navigating complexity.
  • Experience with IPO readiness, public company environments, SOX, or large transformation efforts is desirable.
  • Strong systems orientation with a track record of driving automation and process improvements.
  • Ability to balance immediate execution against long-term strategic outcomes.
  • High sense of ownership and urgency.
  • Exceptional communication skills and ability to influence across all levels of the organization.
  • Comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
  • Operated at a high-rigor public company and "knows what good looks like" - energized by building just that.


What else you need to know

This role is based in our San Francisco, Los Angeles or New York office. Atoms is a company driven by invention and continuous change - we are constantly reimagining our industries, building new products, and refining how we operate. We do our best work together. That's why all of our office-based teams work onsite, five days a week.

The base salary range for this role is $300,000 - $360,000 per year.

Actual compensation will be determined on an individual basis and may vary depending on experience, skills, and qualifications.

Base salary is just one part of your total rewards package. You may also be eligible for equity awards and an annual performance-based bonus.

Benefits Summary (USA Full-Time Exempt Employees):
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance (multiple plans, incl. HSA options).
  • Company-paid life and disability insurance (short- and long-term).
  • Voluntary insurance: accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity.
  • Optional supplemental life insurance for self, spouse, and children.
  • Pet insurance discount.
  • 401(k).
  • Health Savings Account (HSA)
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care, Commuter)
  • Time Off policies:
    • Discretionary vacation days
    • 8 paid holidays per year
    • Paid sick time
    • Paid Bereavement leave
    • Paid Parental Leave


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About CloudKitchens

CloudKitchens is a technology company that provides a platform for restaurants to operate delivery-only kitchens. The company's platform allows restaurants to expand their delivery reach without the need for additional physical locations, while also providing real-time data and analytics to optimize operations. CloudKitchens was founded in 2016 by Travis Kalanick, the co-founder of Uber, and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
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Size
1,000 employees
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Founded
2016

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