Corporate Controller

Overview

This role involves leading the global accounting function and taking it to public-company standard. You will set controllership strategy, own the close and accounting policy, build the controls environment, and lead accounting workstreams supporting IPO readiness. The position is designed for a builder who will architect processes and systems for a multi-entity, manufacturing-and-deployment business while remaining close enough to resolve the hardest technical accounting questions.

Responsibilities

Close and reporting

• Own the global month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close; drive it to a predictable 7-10 business days
• Deliver accurate, timely US GAAP financial statements, including multi-entity consolidation and foreign currency translation across international subsidiaries
• Own the accounting content of board, investor, and lender reporting packages, and ensure ongoing debt covenant compliance

Technical accounting and policy

• Establish and document accounting policies and technical positions; defend them with auditors and senior leadership
• Lead revenue recognition (ASC 606) for complex, milestone-heavy hardware, deployment, software, and services contracts, including multiple performance obligations and variable consideration
• Advise sales, legal, and deal teams on revenue and accounting implications of complex customer and government contract terms before signature
• Own accounting for leases (ASC 842), stock-based compensation (ASC 718), debt and financing transactions, contract costs (ASC 340-40), and foreign operations (ASC 830)

Audit, controls, and IPO readiness

• Own the external audit relationship and lead the annual audit, negotiating significant accounting and scope matters with the audit partner
• Define the SOX readiness roadmap and direct the design and implementation of internal controls to achieve a SOX-ready control environment within 12 months
• Own the accounting workstreams for IPO readiness in partnership with legal, FP&A, and external advisors on timeline and deliverables; drive process improvements across finance

Government and international

• Own accounting and compliance for US government contracts (Other Transaction agreements today, FAR/DFARS work ahead), including invoicing and cost compliance
• Partner with tax and treasury on strategy for intercompany, transfer pricing, statutory audits, and local filings across international entities

Strategy, leadership, and systems

• Set the accounting systems roadmap; own and scale the ERP (NetSuite) and surrounding stack: procure-to-pay, billing, payroll, inventory/MRP, and consolidation tools
• Develop new methods to automate, standardize, and document close and reporting processes as the business scales
• Build, lead, and develop a growing accounting and tax organization (including hiring and developing managers); set the bar for rigor and pace, and define performance standards and career paths for the team
• Help establish the finance organization’s strategic plans and objectives; translate them into a multi-year controllership roadmap covering people, process, systems, and controls
• Cascade functional strategy into clear goals, priorities, and evaluation criteria for the accounting and tax team
• Own the accounting department budget, including headcount, audit and advisory fees, and systems spend
• Serve as a trusted advisor to the VP Finance and executive team on accounting implications of strategic decisions, transactions, and financings

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or a related field; active CPA license
• 12+ years of progressive accounting experience, including 5+ years leading an accounting function as a Controller or Director at a high-growth company
• Track record building and leading multi-layer accounting teams, including hiring and developing managers
• Big 4 or national-firm public accounting experience
• Deep US GAAP judgment, especially ASC 606 on complex hardware-plus-services arrangements (able to write a memo and defend it)
• Track record leading external audits and building SOX-ready controls before they were required
• Multi-entity, multi-currency consolidation experience across international subsidiaries
• Comfort with ambiguity and pace: you prefer building the playbook to following one
• Executive presence: explains complex accounting matters clearly to executives, the board, auditors, and investors; able to reconcile competing stakeholder views
• Experience owning a departmental budget and multi-year functional roadmap

Preferred Qualifications

• IPO or S-1 experience, or Controller time at a newly public company
• Government contracting accounting (FAR, DFARS, DCAA, CAS) and systems
• Experience in data centers, edge computing, robotics, aerospace/defense, or industrial hardware
• International operations in the Middle East, Latin America, Europe, or Asia-Pacific

Compensation & Benefits

Compensation

• $225,000—$300,000 USD (base salary range)
• For US-based candidates: starting base salary range varies based on location, experience, skills, and qualifications. Final compensation will be determined by experience, scope, and level, and may vary from the posted range.
• In addition to base salary, equity and subsidized benefits are offered (details available upon request).
• Geographic pay structure is used based on cost-of-labor markets.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary and equity
• Medical, dental, and vision (subsidized cost)
• Health savings accounts (HSA), flexible spending accounts (FSA), and dependent care FSAs (DCFSA)
• Retirement plan options, including 401(k) and Roth 401(k)
• Unlimited paid time off (PTO)
• 14 paid company holidays per year

Location

• Remote-based in the United States
• Reports to: VP, Finance
• Directs accounting and tax through a team of managers and senior individual contributors; partners with FP&A, Treasury, Legal, and the Executive Team