🕒 4 days ago
Provide hands-on accounting leadership and project support, partnering with the Controller and finance team on close, manufacturing cost and inventory accounting, reporting, audits, and process improvements.
Controller
📅 Aug 18
GAAPASC 606 Revenue RecognitionASC 330 Inventory AccountingCOGS
📜 Description
- Own monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes and prepare and review journal entries, reconciliations, and financial statements.
- Manage accounting staff or outsourced bookkeeping and accounting resources.
- Oversee ASC 606 revenue recognition, deferred revenue, contract balances, and ASC 330 inventory accounting.
- Establish GAAP-compliant accounting policies, scalable processes, finance systems, and internal controls.
- Manage AP/AR, payroll accounting, cash management, audit readiness, and relationships with external financial partners.
- Support board and investor reporting, forecasting, variance analysis, and accounting systems implementation.
🛠️ Requirements
- 7+ years of progressive accounting experience, including some combination of public accounting (Big 4 or regional) and industry experience
- Hands-on ASC 606 revenue recognition experience at a company selling bundled hardware and software subscriptions, including deferred revenue and allocating price across the pieces of a deal.
- Hands-on ASC 330 inventory + COGS experience at a company selling bundled hardware and software subscriptions.
- Experience owning or heavily contributing to a monthly close process
- Comfortable operating with limited infrastructure and building processes from scratch
- Detail-oriented with strong organizational and project management skills
- Excellent communication skills — able to work cross-functionally and explain financial concepts to non-finance stakeholders
- Experience with modern accounting/finance tech stacks (NetSuite, QuickBooks, Bill.com, Ramp, Rippling, etc.)
- A builder's mindset — energized by ambiguity and the opportunity to shape a function, not just execute in an established one
✨ Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Paid parental leave
- Alternating day off every other Monday
- Two-week annual paid break
- Commuter allowance
- Company-paid training
Full job description
About Gridware
Gridware is a San Francisco-based technology company dedicated to protecting and enhancing the electrical grid. We pioneered a groundbreaking new class of grid management called active grid response (AGR), focused on monitoring the electrical, physical, and environmental aspects of the grid that affect reliability and safety. Gridware’s advanced Active Grid Response platform uses high-precision sensors to detect potential issues early, enabling proactive maintenance and fault mitigation. This comprehensive approach helps improve safety, reduce outages, and ensure the grid operates efficiently. The company is backed by climate-tech and Silicon Valley investors. For more information, please visit www.Gridware.io.
Role Description
As a Controller, you'll be a key member of a lean finance team, working closely with the CFO to build and manage the company's core accounting infrastructure. This is a hands-on role for someone who thrives in a fast-paced startup environment — you'll be both a doer and a builder, establishing processes that will scale with the company while managing the day-to-day close.
About Gridware Gridware is a San Francisco-based technology company dedicated to protecting and enhancing the electrical grid. We pioneered a groundbreaking new class of grid management called active grid response (AGR), focused on monitoring the electrical, physical, and environmental aspects of the grid that affect reliability and safety. Gridware’s advanced Active Grid Response platform uses high-precision sensors to detect potential issues early, enabling proactive maintenance and fault mitigation. This comprehensive approach helps improve safety, reduce outages, and ensure the grid operates efficiently. The company is backed by climate-tech and Silicon Valley investors. For more information, please visit www.Gridware.io. This describes the ideal candidate; many of us have picked up this expertise along the way. Even if you meet only part of this list, we encourage you to apply! Gridware Technologies Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. Benefits Health, Dental & Vision (Gold and Platinum with some providers plans fully covered) Paid parental leave Alternating day off (every other Monday) “Off the Grid”, a two week per year paid break for all employees. Commuter allowance Company-paid trainingResponsibilities
Required Skills
Bonus Skills
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