Inferact

Controller

San Francisco. Posted a month ago

The role

The Corporate Controller will build and lead accounting and financial operations to support growth. This role involves overseeing financial reporting, technical accounting, audit coordination, and transaction processes.

What you will do

  • Build and lead accounting and financial operations
  • Establish dependable books, a disciplined close, and reporting
  • Translate customer agreements, infrastructure spending, and international operations into accounting policies and workflows
  • Oversee financial reporting and technical accounting
  • Coordinate audits
  • Manage transaction processes for payments, payroll, equity records, billing, collections, and cash controls
  • Connect contracts and product usage to accurate invoices and revenue records
  • Strengthen controls and automate repetitive work

Required qualifications

  • Progressive accounting experience with meaningful ownership as a Controller, Assistant Controller, Head of Accounting, or equivalent leader in a growing company
  • Strong US GAAP knowledge and practical technical-accounting judgment, including revenue recognition, stock-based compensation, accruals, and the accounting implications of commercial agreements
  • Personal ownership of a complete close and financial statements, including reconciliations, journal-entry review, consolidation, and resolution of material accounting issues
  • Hands-on experience across financial operations, including payables, receivables, billing, collections, payroll coordination, and cash-management controls
  • Experience coordinating external audits and building documented policies, supporting schedules, review procedures, and effective internal controls
  • Experience implementing or improving an accounting system and related workflows
  • Clear communication, sound judgment, and the ability to work independently with operational leaders, external accountants, legal advisors, and a small internal team

Nice to have

  • CPA or equivalent professional accounting qualification
  • Public-accounting experience combined with hands-on operating experience
  • Experience in AI infrastructure, cloud, developer tools, software, or another technology business with complex commercial terms or consumption-based billing
  • Experience with international entities, intercompany accounting, foreign currency, and coordination with local accounting, payroll, or tax advisors
  • Experience evaluating leases, fixed assets, infrastructure commitments, and other material arrangements relevant to a compute-intensive business
  • Experience working with FP&A on management reporting, cost classification, and cash visibility
  • Built a company's accounting function through a period of rapid growth
  • Connected contract terms and usage data to accurate invoicing, revenue accounting, and collections in a technical product business
  • Led an ERP migration or financial-system integration without disrupting reporting, controls, or day-to-day operations
  • Improved close quality, audit preparedness, or financial operations through automation

Benefits

  • Health benefits
  • Dental benefits
  • Vision benefits
  • 401(k) company match

Before you apply

  • We sponsor visas on a case-by-case basis

About the company

Inferact's mission is to grow vLLM as the world's AI inference engine and accelerate AI progress by making inference cheaper and faster. Founded by the creators and core maintainers of vLLM, the company sits at the intersection of models and hardware.

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