Controller

The role

The Controller will own the books and build the accounting machinery from scratch. This includes managing the monthly close, GAAP financials, internal controls, ERP, and multi-entity structures.

What you will do

• Own the monthly close end to end
• Lead the implementation and ownership of the ERP
• Design and operate internal controls
• Own multi-entity accounting and consolidation
• Manage auditors and the audit process
• Build cost and inventory accounting for manufacturing
• Own revenue recognition for contracts
• Coordinate tax compliance and planning
• Own payroll, equity accounting, and stock-based compensation
• Manage accounts payable, accounts receivable, and cash management

Required qualifications

• ~10 years of progressive accounting experience, including controller or assistant controller ownership at a scaling company
• Track record of building the accounting function at a company that scaled
• Deep GAAP fluency, including revenue recognition, inventory and cost accounting, capitalization policy, and stock-based compensation
• Experience owning multi-entity consolidation
• Hands-on experience leading an ERP implementation or migration
• Experience selecting and managing auditors and running annual audits
• Experience with cost accounting in a manufacturing or hardware environment
• Detail-oriented and organized manager
• Clear, direct writing suitable for accounting memos, policy documentation, and audit and diligence responses
• Excellent communication skills
• Comfort operating with ambiguity, incomplete data, and short timelines

Nice to have

• CPA
• Experience at an energy, infrastructure, or project finance company, including project-level and SPV accounting
• Familiarity with project financing structures and the accounting they require
• Experience with equity accounting at a venture-backed startup
• Prior experience standing up accounting for international subsidiaries or foreign-flag entities
• Exposure to IPO readiness, SOX, or public-company controls standards
• Experience with government contracts or grant accounting
• Experience operating in high-urgency organizations with aggressive commercial and operational

Benefits

• Health, Dental, and Vision insurance coverage
• Flexible PTO including 12 paid company holidays
• Travel to deployment sites along oceanic ridges
• Participate in sea trials and deployment operations
• Work with technology spanning high-power electronics, marine systems, and clean energy
• Company-sponsored recreational dive certification
• Access to the company boat
• Free meals and snacks

About the company

Endurance is building the world's first modular subsea geothermal power plants, converting vast thermal resources under the ocean into gigawatts of baseload power.