Controllership Lead

Early-stage AI financial software company run by senior executives from the Big 4, Google, AMD, SAP, Accenture and Microsoft. World class C-Suite and unrivaled funding.

Controllership Lead

We are hiring a senior finance leader from industry help shape and build the next generation of finance and business intelligence. This person should bring deep controllership judgment from a regulated, high-scrutiny environment and be able to translate real-world close, reporting, control, and consolidation experience into product requirements, workflow design, and customer-facing domain expertise. The ideal candidate has operated in a public-company or large private organization in technology or capital-intensive industries (including but not limited to Industrials, oil & gas, telecommunications, automotive, utilities, etc.) and understands how close, reporting, SOX/ICFR, and external-auditor expectations interact in practice.

What this person will do

• Help define product requirements and workflows for close, controllership, statutory-pack design, consolidation logic, entity-level governance, and ICFR use cases in regulated environments.
• Translate real operating experience into repeatable logic, evidence standards, exception routing, and reviewer gates.
• Advise engineering and product teams on how finance processes actually work inside technology and/or capital intensive organizations
• Support customer conversations, design-partner sessions, and implementation work with CFO, Controller, CAO, Internal Audit, and SOX leaders.
• Help shape audit-ready evidence and control-support capabilities that stand up under scrutiny from management, internal audit, and external auditors.
• Contribute to thought leadership and messaging around how technology and/or capital intensive organizations move from reactive, manual workflows to governed, continuous finance operations.
• Work closely with product and engineering to encode best practices into repeatable workflows.

Experience profile

• 12–20 years in controllership or related finance leadership roles.
• Public-company or similarly high-scrutiny operating-company background.
• Deep close and reporting leadership experience.
• Strong SOX/ICFR and auditor-management experience.
• Strong experience with multi-entity close, intercompany/elimination issues, and pack/mapping discipline.
• CPA preferred.

What good looks like

• Has run through difficult closes, transformations, system changes, or control remediations.
• Has managed statutory or consolidation complexity across many entities and jurisdictions.
• Can separate “nice process” from “defensible process.”
• Strong communicator across finance, accounting, audit, systems, and executive stakeholders.
• Interested in shaping a product, not only running a traditional function.