Director of Finance

The role

The Director of Finance will build and lead the finance function through the company's next stage of growth. This role combines strategic finance, accounting, capital strategy, business economics, fundraising, and corporate operations.

What you will do

• Own budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, scenario analysis, and company-wide financial modeling.
• Build customer, deployment, site, and asset economics.
• Partner across departments to connect operating decisions to financial outcomes.
• Develop capital strategy across equity, venture debt, asset and equipment financing, and other alternatives.
• Own cash, runway, treasury, and working-capital planning.
• Identify and pursue grants, tax credits, rebates, and other non-dilutive funding.
• Support fundraising and financial diligence.
• Own accurate, timely, GAAP-compliant financial reporting and monthly, quarterly, and annual close.
• Establish practical policies, documentation, and internal controls.
• Manage auditors, tax advisors, and technical accounting specialists.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive finance experience with meaningful in-house operating experience.
• Experience operating in a startup, scale-up, or similarly fast-moving, resource-constrained environment.
• Direct, hands-on experience leading or playing a central role in at least one institutional venture round (Series A–C), including financial diligence and data room management.
• Strong strategic finance, FP&A, budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, and U.S. GAAP capabilities.
• Experience in a capital-intensive business where asset economics, fixed assets, inventory, capital deployment, and ROI matter.
• Demonstrated ability to build financial processes, systems, models, or capabilities from scratch.
• Strong problem-solving ability when the data, process, or answer does not already exist.
• Strong technology orientation and willingness to use automation, AI, and modern finance systems to improve productivity.
• Comfortable moving between executive-level discussions and transaction-level detail, with a resourceful, low-ego operating style.

Nice to have

• Experience in robotics, hardware, manufacturing, logistics, or another operationally complex business.
• An established network of venture investors, venture lenders, and bankers active in Series A–C rounds, ideally in robotics, hardware, or deep tech.
• Experience implementing or improving ERP, reporting, accounting, or finance automation systems.
• CPA or equivalent technical accounting background
• Korean bilingual

About the company

Contoro Robotics is a Series B robotics startup building autonomous systems for demanding material-handling environments. Headquartered in Austin, TX, the company is transforming the supply chain industry with warehouse automation technology.