Financial Controller

As Financial Controller at Happl, you’ll own the financial engine of the business — everything from the cash in the bank to the numbers our board and investors use to make decisions runs through you. You’ll run the monthly close, the full revenue cycle, the compliance calendar across two jurisdictions, and our treasury position, and you’ll decide how all of it gets built, systemised, and automated.

This is a hands-on, high-autonomy role with a direct line to leadership. You won’t be managing a process someone else designed — you’ll be deciding what good looks like across revenue, cash, compliance, and reporting, then making it happen. You’ll work closely with the CEO, the board, our investors, and our outsourced bookkeeping, audit, and tax partners, holding all of it to a standard that matches the product we’ve built.

We’re FCA-regulated and YCombinator-backed, having raised $11m to date, and we give global employers a single place to design, deliver, and manage benefits across 160+ countries and 70+ languages — which means the finance function behind the product has to be just as sharp as the product itself. We’re entering our next phase of growth, with an ambitious revenue trajectory and an expanding international footprint, and this role sits at the centre of it.

At Happl, we help global teams design, manage, and scale benefits that actually work for their people by using AI, across flex allowances, benefits, insurance, recognition, and wellbeing, all in one intelligent platform.

Happl is backed by leading investors such as YCombinator, 6Degrees Capital, Haatch, Portage, and more, known for backing leading companies such as Deel, Rippling, Airbnb, Coinbase, Dropbox, and most recently was awarded a place in the UK’s top 100 startups for 2026.