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Kikoff
San Francisco
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Kikoff: The Fintech Powering Financial Security at Scale
Kikoff is a profitable, pre-IPO fintech company on a mission to empower everyone to achieve financial security. With record revenue growth in 2025 and a unicorn valuation, we've built a suite of products that help millions of people build credit, access liquidity, and save money.
We're scaling fast. Join us if you want to build something meaningful and help millions of people move forward financially.
This is a consumer fintech startup, and you will be working with serial entrepreneurs who have built strong consumer brands and innovative products. We value extreme ownership, clear communication, a strong sense of craftsmanship, and the desire to create lasting work and work relationships. Yes, you can build an exciting business AND have real-life real-customer impact.
Reporting to the VP Corporate Controller, you will own Kikoff's external reporting and technical accounting as we prepare to go public. This is a founding hire: our technical accounting authority from day one, owning the financial statements and building the processes we will run as a public company.
The scope is wider than a typical reporting role. Consumer credit receivables, cash advances, subscription revenue, bank partnerships, and structured financing all sit on our balance sheet, and each raises real accounting questions. You will own all of them except revenue recognition, which belongs to our revenue accounting lead. You will also own the reporting our lenders and bank partner require, and the ESG reporting we will grow into.
You will work closely with the VP Corporate Controller, CFO, external auditors, technical advisors, and internal and outside counsel, and you can build a team as we scale. We want national office–caliber technical judgment paired with an operator's drafting ability, and someone who finds building from scratch energizing.
This role starts as an individual contributor and is based in our San Francisco office three days a week.
8+ years across Big 4 public accounting and in-house SEC reporting or technical accounting.
CPA required, with deep knowledge of US GAAP and SEC reporting rules, including Regulation S-X and S-K.
You have personally drafted 10-Ks and 10-Qs, and ideally an S-1 or been through an IPO.
Comfortable with pre-IPO equity accounting — options and RSUs (ASC 718), 409A and cheap stock, and EPS on conversion of preferred.
Strong research and memo-writing skills, and able to defend a position to auditors.
Comfortable as an individual contributor now, with the judgment to know when to scale the team.
A clear communicator — you can turn a complex conclusion into a clean memo and explain it to non-accountants.
Workiva (or similar) and NetSuite experience preferred.
Experience reporting to counterparties — covenant certificates, borrowing base or servicer reporting, or securitization reporting — and comfort turning contract definitions into GAAP.
Some exposure to ESG reporting — SB 253 and SB 261, TCFD, or SASB — or the appetite to learn it.
Lending, consumer credit, banking, or other regulated financial services experience preferred.
Base Range
$167,000 — $215,000 USD
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
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Kikoff Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to complying with all federal, state, and local laws providing equal employment opportunities and considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.
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