Controller

The role

As the first accounting hire, you will own accounting and financial operations end to end. You will transition books in-house and build the team, systems, and controls to support an AI robotics company scaling from prototype to production.

What you will do

• Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual close under US GAAP
• Select and drive implementation of a manufacturing-ready ERP
• Manage AP, vendor payments, and spend controls
• Build and lead the accounting and financial operations team
• Transition accounting from an external bookkeeper to an in-house function
• Own audit readiness
• Design product costing and COGS methodology
• Set accounting policy and write technical memos
• Assess the accounting treatment of supplier, manufacturing, and compute agreements
• Design and document internal controls

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive accounting experience
• Public accounting background
• Hands-on ERP implementation in a manufacturing or hardware environment
• Hands-on inventory and product cost accounting experience
• Broad technical accounting depth: revenue, capitalization, software, IP
• Experience leading a company through external audits
• Track record of building finance processes from scratch at a fast-growing company
• Builder mindset: you do the work yourself while building the team around you

Nice to have

• Big 4 strongly preferred
• CPA
• Controller or Assistant Controller experience at a venture-backed hardware, robotics, autonomous vehicle, or consumer electronics company
• Experience taking a company from pre-revenue to commercial launch
• Experience with contract manufacturers in Asia
• Experience with modern spend and automation tools such as Ramp

About the company

Sunday is developing personal robots to reclaim the hours lost to repetitive tasks. They are focused on making generalized robots broadly accessible for households.