{"id":3662692,"url":"https://alion.io/job/success-matcher-controller-and-finance-lead","title":"Controller and Finance Lead","company":{"id":3864750,"name":"Success Matcher","domain":"successmatcher.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/success-matcher","size_band":"11-50","is_staffing_agency":true,"employer_type":"agency","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Manatal","truth_index":null},"role":"Finance","role_family":"Finance","seniority":"lead","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Saint Petersburg, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":150000,"max":175000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":175000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":6,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"QuickBooks","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-03T04:08:43Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-03","last_verified_at":"2026-11-05T10:31:02Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":2,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":2},"description":"About the Company\nWe're partnering with an early-stage space and maritime company building the first purpose-built offshore rocket launch platform. Launching from the sea offers advantages in cost, resilience and access to orbit, but no one has designed a solution around today's rockets. This team is changing that.\nThe company has signed its first full-scale build agreement for a 200-ft offshore launch platform that goes on the water next year, with long-term revenue and plans for a fleet over the next five years. It is a small team, mostly engineering and operations, and it has commercialized faster than most startups.\nThe Opportunity\nYou will be the company's first full-time finance hire and report directly to the Co-Founder & CEO. You'll start hands-on with the transactions and operations of the first build, take full ownership of accounting and finance, and grow into the company's senior finance leader as it scales toward Series B/C and beyond.\nWhat You'll Do\nRun AP/AR for large, low-volume transactions during the first build\nOwn the month-end close and manage the outsourced bookkeeper\nOwn cash flow management, budgeting and budget-vs-actuals\nBuild the reporting package for leadership and the quarterly board\nUpgrade the finance stack from QuickBooks Online to a more mature ERP, and integrate it with the company's vessel-management platform\nHire and manage an AP/AR team member within your first one to two quarters\nSpend your first 90 days working alongside operations and engineering, mapping the first build's processes to back-office workflows.\nQualifications:\nActive CPA license and a Bachelor's degree in Accounting\nBig Four experience (Deloitte, PwC, EY or KPMG)\nRoughly 6-12 years of progressive experience as a controller, accounting manager or head of finance\nA deep, hands-on accounting foundation. You personally run the close, AP/AR, cash forecasting and reporting.\nA builder's mindset. You can take a blank page and create process, structure and discipline.\nExperience building or scaling a finance function at an early-stage or high-growth company","description_format":"text","description_chars":2087,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":6,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-03T04:08:43Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":54,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.542,"p_room":1,"age_days":2,"expected_fill_days":8,"reasons":["conf:0","agency","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-05T05:54:30Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":175000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/success-matcher-controller-and-finance-lead","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/success-matcher-controller-and-finance-lead.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-05T15:22:09Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":20058,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-06T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":3864750},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=3864750"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fsuccess-matcher-controller-and-finance-lead"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fsuccess-matcher-controller-and-finance-lead"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fsuccess-matcher-controller-and-finance-lead"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/success-matcher-controller-and-finance-lead\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fsuccess-matcher-controller-and-finance-lead"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3662692}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"successmatcher.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3662692},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}